this raises two issues for urban water governance i rescaling metropolitan governance may positively or negatively affect water governance frameworks and ii strategies for metropolitan governance reform may offer interesting models for application in the urban water sector evidence from selected oecd metropolitan areas is provided in table the largest functional area often referred to as the southeast region extends to the gyeongnam province and ulsan metropolitan city at million people it covers the four largest dutch cities amsterdam rotterdam the hague and utrecht a large number of mediumsized cities as well as small towns and villages