- Where the rivers run - Research on water governance suggests that increasing engagement

governance: exploring the governance of Columbia River and the Lesotho river basins is This centralised method of decision- Highlands Water Project. [...] Michele-Lee Moore, co-author” The whole managementpuzzle Why scientists need to pay Governance to capture complexity more attention to thebehaviour and interactions of Termed polycentric governance, this is simply a model of resource users governance for merging perspectives, values, and knowledge to form a unified yet integrated system of governance. [...] While there is growing efforts to change this and include those representing the rights of those outside of this centralized authority, the authors suggest this occurs at a lesser and slower rate. [...] Such initiatives exist in the Columbia Basin and work to represent the rights of people affected by the way the river is managed but who have little say in the current decisions. [...] Methodology The researchers chose to focus on the Columbia River and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project as case studies to analyse a transition towards polycentric governance.