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1. The Network is a network of interested Partners, from the public sector, the private sector, and civil society, concerned with water affairs around the world. The Network operates through co-operation with Partners and through the Network Meeting and any groups and committees established by it. It further operates through relations with accredited Regional Water Partnerships, Regional Technical Committees and Country Water Partnerships, and other separate co-operating entities that have been given a role in the Network in accordance with these Statutes.
2. The Organisation consists of the Meeting of the Sponsoring Partners, the Chair, the Steering Committee, the Nomination Committee, the Executive Secretary, the Secretariat and such other organs that the Steering Committee may decide to establish in accordance with these Statutes.
3. The Network and its operations are managed by the Chair, the Executive Committee and other organs of the Organisation as well as by the Network Meeting, as provided for in these Statutes. Other entities operating with or within the Network are not parts of the Organisation.