The recurring course on the Global Challenges in Water Resources Governance is offered to BIA students. This core elective course is designed to approach the triple water energy food nexus, placing water at the central stage as an object of analysis. Starting from concrete ʺon the groundʺ issues, water governance is studied from an interdisciplinary perspective, engaging with multi-level focus of analysis that goes from the local to the national and the international. In that way, the course gives the students access to the different points of view of a plurality of actors and agencies, including governments, international organizations, social movements, local communities, and businesses. In 2021, we’ve connected the course students with international organizations that were involved in our Institute’s consulting projects, in particular, the Cities Alliance project on informality. Practitioners involved in slum upgrading projects in different countries around the world spoke to the students about the centrality and challenges of water service provision in the poorest and most vulnerable urban areas, including many Latin American communities. At the end of the semester, students will invited to elaborate a research paper prompted by the above-mentioned challenges, studying a database of real-world cases provided by this collaborating community of practice.