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Solving water problems requires new ways of harnessing dialogs, reflections, empathy, research, and visions. Too often, water policies and practices tend to take shortcuts, missing out on the benefits these powerful social learning processes can bring towards water justice and sustainability. The question is: How do we apply and nurture an interactive approach to implement water management decisions that benefit both people and the environment, now and into the future? Tackling this question requires a transdisciplinary, practice-focused, and policy-oriented approach to learning and governing, embracing the idea of coproduction of knowledge, practice, and policy. The first International Water Policy Lab (WPL) Champions' Forum was organized by the Institute for Study and Development Worldwide (IFSD), the

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