The Council’s research on water governance evaluates water management and security across all sectors - agricultural, industrial, and municipal. Our work on water governance includes the 584-page National Water Resources Framework Study for India’s 12th Five Year Plan; irrigation reform for Bihar; Swachh Bharat; supporting India’s National Water Mission; collective action for water security; mapping India’s traditional water bodies; modelling water-energy nexus; circular economy of water; participatory irrigation management in South Asia; domestic water conflicts; modelling decision making at the basin-level; rainwater harvesting; and multi-stakeholder initiatives for urban water management. The National Water Resources Framework Study was ranked among the world’s top policy studies produced by a think-tank by the 2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index.