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As water management is cross-sectoral, countries set up various water related agencies to deal with different aspects of managing water at the local and national level. However, in many cases, data and information exchange among the respective water agencies either remains insufficient to inform decision-making, or is hampered by a reluctance to share the agencies’ ‘own data’ with other agencies. Even where agencies are willing to participate in data exchange, it is common for monitoring systems to be incompatible, or the data formats not comparable among the water agencies.