Introduction: Opportunities and risks / Mikiyasu Nakayama -- 1. Water-resources management in Southern Africa / Piet Heyns -- 2. Role of public participation and access to information in the management of transboundary watercourses / Carl Bruch -- 3. Transboundary freshwater treaties / Meredith A. Giordano and Aaron T. Wolf -- 4. Institutional aspects of international water-system management / Mikiyasu Nakayama -- 5. Building the bridge between decision-support tools and decision-making / Kazimierz A. Salewicz -- 6. An overview of the hydropolitical dynamics of the Orange River basin / Anthony Turton -- 7. The search for an equitable basis for water sharing in the Okavango River basin / Peter Ashton -- 8. Hydropolitics and the quest of the Zambezi River-Basin Organization / Munyaradzi Chenje -- 9. Joint development and cooperation in international water resources / Abdullahi Elmi Mohamed.

10. Interaction and existing constraints in international river basins / Richard Meissner -- 11. Summary of presentations and discussions / Zafar Adeel, Thomas Ballatore and Meredith Giordano.