the principles have been applied across different scales stakeholders and sectors either as a tool to understand how water governance systems are performing at local basin or national level or as a reading template to guide decisions for water stakeholders and institutions on specific water functions eg service delivery water resources management flood risk prevention etc in january the journal water international published a peerreviewed set of articles reflecting such examples in its special issue the oecd principles on water governance from vision to action some of these applications are summarised hereinafter and should neither be considered as the views of the authors of this report nor of the oecd