Transboundary Water Governance & Circularity

A circular-economy assessment of official transboundary-water governance documents, coded provision by provision against the STREAM taxonomy. It covers ….

Assess official policy, legal, and institutional documents on transboundary water management, globally and across all governance levels, against the STREAM circular-economy taxonomy, and map how governance evolves over time toward circular thinking.

Every document below is coded against STREAM (see The STREAM taxonomy). Use the table to search and filter; click any row to open its STREAM profile: dimension composition, salience, the taxonomy×depth heatmap, and the underlying provisions with their verbatim quotes.

The STREAM taxonomy

STREAM is a circular-economy taxonomy built for transboundary water governance. Each document is coded against it: every circular provision in the text is captured with a verbatim quote, assigned to one of six dimensions and a specific sub-code, and rated for depth, that is, how binding or central it is. A document's composition, dominant dimension, and overall salience are derived from those tagged provisions, so every figure traces back to specific text.

S — Stewardship · shared and joint management, governance, and data-sharing of common waters.
T — Transformation · substituting conventional systems with innovative or alternative solutions (e.g. reclaimed water replacing freshwater).
R — Restoration · restoring and protecting ecosystems, water quality, environmental flows, and biodiversity.
E — Efficiency · improving efficiency and performance: reducing losses, demand management, data-driven use.
A — Advancement · replacing physical processes with digital and information tools: monitoring, remote sensing, shared data systems.
M — Material Loop · keeping water and resources in closed cycles: reuse, recycling, and recovery.

Reading a document's STREAM coding. Click any row in the table to expand it. You'll see a composition bar (each dimension's share), a salience tag (how central circularity is to the document), a taxonomy×depth heatmap (which sub-codes the document covers and how binding they are, hover a cell for its definition), and the provisions themselves, grouped by dimension with verbatim quotes. Coding is performed by an agentic-AI pipeline, with every provision anchored to a verbatim span of the source text.

Scope

CoverageGlobal: all regions and countries, no geographic restriction.

LanguagePrefer English versions; include original-language documents where no translation exists.

Governance levels LocalNational RegionalBasin Global

Include

In scope: official documents

National-level policies, strategies, laws, and action plans explicitly addressing transboundary water management
Basin-scale agreements and treaties (river commissions, international water-sharing agreements)
Joint protocols between countries on shared rivers, lakes, or aquifers
Policy documents from governments, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and basin authorities
Global policy documents and frameworks from international organizations (e.g. UN agencies and other multilateral institutions)
Any governance level, local to global, as long as it relates to transboundary water issues

Exclude

Out of scope

Purely academic papers without embedded policy content
News articles or opinion pieces
Project reports without formal policy, legal, or institutional status
Sub-national or intra-state cross-border basins (e.g. US interstate compacts, Australia's Murray–Darling). Scope is international transboundary waters shared between sovereign states

Per-document schema

Each coded document carries the descriptive fields below, which drive the table and charts on this page. Source files, extraction provenance, and the retrieval method are documented with the companion dataset, not here.

Field	Description
`title`	Official document title
`type`	policy / strategy / law / treaty / agreement / protocol / framework
`level`	local / national / regional / basin / global
`issuer`	Government, IGO, basin authority, UN agency, …
`basin_or_region`	River basin / lake system / hydrological region / global
`countries`	Parties / countries involved
`year`	Release or implementation year
`language`	Original language; note if English translation exists
`url`	Source / canonical link
`summary`	Short abstract of policy content

At a glance

Simple trends across the collected corpus, rendered live from the data below.

Documents per country (bubble size = number of documents a country is party to)

Hover a bubble for the country and its document count. A document is counted for every country that is a party to it.

Collected documents

Searchable, filterable corpus. Click any column header to sort; filter by region, level, or type; or search across titles, issuers, and parties.

Loading the corpus… results render here as a searchable, sortable table once documents.json loads.

This page presents the STREAM circular-economy analysis only. The underlying documents (full extracted text, source URLs, and retrieval provenance) are published separately as a companion dataset.