in addition local governments provide a direct contact point for residents on questions of water conservation in this sense they have a greater ability to adjust policies to adapt to changing behaviour and are more likely to influence popular water habits than higher levels of government while each province of argentina has its own set of laws outlining water roles and responsibilities most lac countries have a national water law to allocate roles and competences in water to lower levels of government more than half of the lac countries surveyed have also enshrined subnational responsibilities in the water sector in their constitutional arrangements