Authored by Marc Wilson, Gordon Nanau, Milika Sobey & Semi Lotawa

For example, Tonga is a monarchy, standing systems of government in PICs, including the following: so all land and water sources are owned by the Crown/State; the (i) degrees of centralisation and decentralisation; (ii) relationship situation is in Niue, where rights to groundwater are vested in the between the legislature and the executive; (iii) status of the head Crown. [...] The town’s water needs are in to look at appropriate WRM legislation and policies and realign the hands of the Solomon Islands Water Authority, an SOE that them to better address water and sanitation delivery and WRM leases the Kongulai water source from customary landowners of in all PICs. [...] In the the Tonga Water Board (TWB) supplies water to Tongatapu, parts Cook Islands, 95% of the land is under customary tenure, 88% in of the Vava’u and Ha’apai groups, and the island of ‘Eua under the Fiji, 99% in the Marshall Islands, 90% in Nauru, 98.5% in Niue, TWB Act of 2000. [...] It is vital that the government dynamics at the local level and the agreed commitments laid of the day is convinced of and supports any proposed donor out in the agreements between the state, SOE and customary intervention from the start. [...] Communicating clearly and en- form collectives or networks with the power and legitimacy to act in suring that the positive outcomes of the intervention are clearly water resources management and governance of water and other understood, appreciated, and owned by individuals and families natural resources? Further still, what are the relationships between in the community should be a paramount con.