GovernAgua is a two-year project funded by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). It seeks to improve the provisioning of ecosystem services and human well-being associated with water by advancing anticipatory water governance in South America. This will be achieved by strengthening the actors’ ability to anticipate and adapt to change, as well as improve their ability to co-create knowledge.

The project will focus on the study of six watersheds: two in Argentina, two in Brazil and two in Uruguay, by systematizing knowledge where crises in water supply, water scarcity and water regulation will be used as windows of opportunity for knowledge generation and transformation in water management.

This ambitious project brings together an extensive team of researchers from the three study countries, many of whom will be present for this launch event to participate in the first face-to-face work since the project began in June.

GovernAgua has the support of national and regional institutions, as well as governmental partners such as: Global Water Partnership (GWP) South America, UNESCO International Hydrological Program, The Nature Conservancy – Latin America, National Directorate of Environmental Management of Water and Ecosystems Aquatic (Argentina), Ministry of Environment, Field and Production (San Luis, Argentina), Agency AGEVAP (Paraíba do Sul Basin Committee, Brazil), National Secretariat of Environment, Water and Climate Change (SNAACC, Uruguay), National Directorate of Environment (DINAMA-MVOTMA, Uruguay) and the National Water Board (DINAGUA-MVOTMA, Uruguay), among others.

The launch event to be held at SARAS Institute headquarters in Bella Vista (Maldonado, Uruguay) will be attended by the principal investigators of the project, associate researchers from the 3 countries, as well as special guests and representatives of partner institutions.

The general public will be able to follow the live streaming of this event through this web page, and through SARAS social networks.