Governing water, although not a new challenge, has assumed a renewed significance globally, particularly in the context of multiple emerging crises across social, ecological, economic, and spatial systems. Water governance is a complex and ongoing process involving stakeholders across regions and time-scales, where the future of water is a critical point of discussion in the context of sustainable development in the coming decades. Humans are radically changing and modifying the water cycle: solving the challenge of water governance is critical to the success of the SDGs: water is deeply embedded across all the SDGs and addressing the challenge of water governance requires a ‘systems-thinking’ approach that brings together water, climate change,..