of all the mechanisms included in water governance this is the most prevalent and also remains among the most difficult to carry out others however are political and often appear when the government of one country usually an upstream country embarks on riverrelated projects that are likely to have significant downstream impacts in other countries water diversion dam construction and waste disposal in water are examples of types of activities that are in need of assessment but when crossborder relations are involved are not shared either by lack of concern about crossborder impacts or unwillingness to be open to potentially critical assessments from outside the country similarly information is not only about projects and their impacts but also about decisionmaking especially with regard to behindcloseddoors agreements that can entail corruption