Water-resources management in Southern Africa / Piet Heyns -- Role of public participation and access to information in the management of transboundary watercourses / Carl Bruch -- Transboundary freshwater treaties / Meredith A. Giordano and Aaron T. Wolf -- Institutional aspects of international water-system management / Mikiyasu Nakayama -- Building the bridge between decision-support tools and decision-making / Kazimierz A. Salewicz -- An overview of the hydropolitical dynamics of the Orange River Basin / Anthony Turton -- The search for an equitable basis for water sharing in the Okavango River Basin / Peter Ashton -- Hydropolitics and the quest of the Zambezi River Basin Organization / Munyaradzi Chenje -- Joint development and cooperation in international water resources / Abdullahi Elmi Mohamed -- Interaction and existing constraints in international river basins / Richard Meissner -- Summary of presentations and discussions / Zafa Adeel, Thomas Ballatore, and Meredith Giordano