Abstract

This chapter presents an overview of global trends in water law and policy and assesses current global water governance. It identifies the key purpose of this book as providing an historic understanding of how and why after 5,000 years of water governance, that governance still has not reached stability. It identi- fies the key research questions for this book. It provides an overview of the current global water governance regime, its evolving characteristics, and the legal theories involved in these changes. It focuses on water law and discusses the characteristics of national, supranational, and international water law. It then introduces the chapters of the book and explains how these chapters together provide a compre- hensive assessment of the state of water law today.

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