Subject(s): Water Governance Challenges -- Powers and Functions in a Federal Design: -- Federal rivers: critical overview of water governance challenges in federal system, Climate adaptation in river management in a post-stationary world -- Americas : federalism and US water policy, Water scarcity, conflict resolution and adaptive governance in federal transboundary rivers basins, managing water in a federal state, Resilience of river basin governance institutions in the Saakatchewan river basin of western Canada,Water management and ecosystem in Mexico,Federalism and water security in Brazil -- Europe- the Spanish experience : River basin governance and water polices in Spain, Between a rock and a hard place: redefining water security under decentralization in Spain -- Southern Africa : Allocating power and functions in a federal design in South Africa, Meeting the challenges of equity and sustainability in complex and uncertain worlds : emergence of integrated water resources management in the eastern rivers in south Africa -- South Asia : managing water in India's federal framework, Hydro-institutional challenges of managing water economics of federal rivers in Narmada river, Inter-jurisdictional water management in Pakistan's Indus basin -- China : China's political system, economic reform and the governance of water quality in the pearl river basin, Watershed management in Tai Lake Basin in China, China's federal river management - Han river -- Australia : Murry-darling basin -- Water security in cross-border regions: water relevance for federal human security regimes, Water resources management in federal system