#2: Guadalquivir basin

A major challenge in Spanish water

Governance can be defined as the various institutionalised modes of social coordination to produce and implement collectively binding rules, or to provide collective goods (Börzel & Risse, 2010,p. 114).

Börzel, T. A., & Risse, T. (2010). Governance Without a State: Can It Work? Regulation & Governance, 4(2), 113–134. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01076.x

has been, and still is, the management of scarce resources. In this

The context comprises all overarching societal and environmental factors that may influence but can hardly be influenced by the water governance and management system.

, agriculture is a strategically important sector, accounting for 88 % of water consumption in the Guadalquivir.  The two main sectors are therefore the water and the agricultural sector, including a variety of policies, such as the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the Rural Development Program under the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), as well as Drought Risk Management. Actors are from the national level (River Basin Authority), the regional level (Regional Ministry of Agriculture of Andalusia, regional associations of irrigation communities and civil society organizations), and the basin and sub-basin level (irrigators organized in irrigation communities). The success of coordination efforts has been limited, with agricultural water consumption still increasing.