1 Introduction Marcella Nanni, Stefano Burchi, Ariella D’Andrea, Gabriel Eckstein PART 1: Water law developments and trends in a changing world 2 A comparative review of contemporary water resources legislation: trends, developments and an agenda for reform Stefano Burchi 3 Legislation as a tool in support of adaptive water management in response to climate change Marcella Nanni PART 2: Challenges to Water Security: Equity, legal pluralism, and climatic variability 4 Water governance reform in the context of inequality: securing rights or legitimizing dispossession? Helle Munk Ravnborg 5 Compulsory licensing under South Africa’s National Water Act Michael Kidd 6 Legal pluralism and customary water resources management in Guatemala Ariella D’Andrea 7 Why the Western United States’ prior appropriation water rights system should weather climate variability Jonathan R. Schutz 8 Adapting water laws to increasing demand and a changing climate Eric L. Garner PART 3: Multiple approaches for achieving access to water 9 The human right to water as a creature of global administrative law Owen McIntyre 10 The right to water in a transboundary context: emergence of seminal trends Christina Leb 11 Scottish Water: a public-sector success story Sarah Hendry PART 4: Science and the Law: bridging the gap 12 Are we killing the rain? Meditations on the water cycle and, more particularly, on bioprecipitation Jane Maslow Cohen 13 Governing water augmentation under the Watercourse Convention Rhett B. Larson PART 5: Cooperation on Transboundary water resources: current state and future directions 14 Joint infrastructure and the sharing of benefits in the Senegal and Niger watersheds Mara Tignino 15 Ad hoc legal mechanisms governing transboundary aquifers: current status and future prospects Laura Movilla Pateiro 16 Adaptation in the Tisza: innovation and tribulation at the sub-basin level Shanna N. McClain, Carl Bruch and Silvia Secchi