in spain this highlevel consultative agency was created in and includes autonomous communities local entities riverbasin authorities and professional and economic unions related to water these include for example the consultation of private actors including citizens groups water users associations and civil society and financial transfers and incentives across levels of government eg earmarked versus generalpurpose grants for financing infrastructure other instruments they can consider are coordination agencies contractual arrangements multisectoral conferences performance indicators regulations shared databases river basin organisations regulation and performance indicators and intermediate bodies box provides some examples of the use of performance indicators in a number of oecd countries some oecd countries have chosen to use all the mechanisms listed above eg france mexico while others have adopted none due to highly centralised water policy and limited involvement of subnational actors korea israel the stowa institute of applied scientific research is leading the drive toward standardisation of monitoring systems for water quality water quantity and ecology