Is Water a Good or a Right? International Water Governance on the Domestic-International Frontier.

A conference paper about the governance of international water is presented. It provides information on three policy paradigms of water governance, the hydraulic state paradigm, the neoliberal market paradigm, and the market regulatory paradigm. It explains how the management of water resources has shifted between public and private control. It discusses the reconfiguration of the role of Canada, Bolivia and France in water governance.