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The high diversity of institutions, programs and action plans in international water politics provides a barrier to coherent, efficient action, resulting in increasing implementation gaps in water politics. Applying the principles of governance – cooperation, coordination, common values, integration of decision making levels and subject matters – and establishing a coherent Global Water Governance architecture would guarantee a more efficient use of human and financial resources and close implementation gaps, especially in view of the Millennium Development Goals. The key words describing the necessary transformation process are defragmentation, coordination and commitments and are concerned foremost with the re-structuring of UN-Water and the establishment of binding rules or treaties in the water supply and sanitation sector. The proposed path towards a Global Water Governance architecture is not without obstacles. Here, the voice of rational science is needed providing rationales and programmatic support when implementing governance principles on a global level. The design of a global Water Governance architecture would open a new field of interdisciplinary research.
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- Millennium Development Goal
- Integrate Water Resource Management
- Global Governance
- Water Policy
- Global Water
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Schnurr, M. (2008). Global Water Governance: Managing complexity on a Global Scale. In: Scheumann, W., Neubert, S., Kipping, M. (eds) Water Politics and Development Cooperation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76707-7_5
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