as an example the governments of australia and new zealand have jointly developed the national water quality management strategy nwqms the components of which may be incorporated into state and territory legislation in varying degrees across jurisdictions in canada interjurisdictional transboundary water governance mechanisms such as the international joint commission the mackenzie river basin board and the prairie provinces water board serve as collaborative forms to address issues of water quality and quantity in a first category of countries these functions are carried out by ministerial departments andor public agencies in a second category of countries such duties rely on specific regulatory agencies in the water sector and a third category of countries in the middle of the continuum significant regulatory powers are granted to specific actors at national level in mexico most environmental regulatory powers are in the hands of the federal commission for protection against health risks comision federal para la proteccion contra riesgos sanitarios