Water and Cities : Ensuring Sustainable Futures This report focuses on the urban water management challenges facing cities across OECD countries and explores both national and local policy responses with respect to water risk exposure the state of urban infrastructures and dynamics and institutional and governance architectures. The analyses focus on four mutually dependent dimensions – finance innovation urban rural co operation and governance – and proposes a solutions oriented typology based on urban characteristics. The report underlines that sustainable urban water management will depend on collaboration across different tiers of government working together with local initiatives and stakeholders.