Kevin Collins (The Open University) - 6th WGI Meeting (2-3 November 2015, Paris)

1. CADWAGO: Findings on systemic water governance
Kevin Collins - Open University, UK

2. CADWAGO: Systemic inquiry into water governance
in England & Wales
WFD 2nd round: how to include
catchment level in WFD / water
governance?
• Systemic co-inquiries and interventions
with core group of national
stakeholders (2011+)
• Understanding historical and current
practices
• Emphasis on social learning
• Working collaboratively to transform
understandings and develop new 2nd
order praxis of water governance

3. Key Outcomes
• Drinking water quality is excellent
• But only 17% of water bodies at GES (2015)
• Current water management is responsive
• Stakeholder recognition that water
governance is a complex, messy situation
with multiple contexts, levels and actors
• Developing a framework at national level
for more integrated local delivery of
environmental outcomes
• Investment in new skills and praxis
• High-level institutional support for
iterative, virtuous cycle of collaboration to
learn our way towards systemic water
governance
www.cadwago.net