At the municipal level, the following situations exist: (1) a watershed is under the full
administrative jurisdiction of a single municipality; (2) a watershed straddles across administrative
boundaries of several municipalities. In both cases, a multi-sectoral Watershed Management
Council (WMC) shall be established. The WMC shall be the forum for arriving at consensus on
land-use and natural-resource-based investments within their watershed. The legitimacy of these
WMCs would be strengthened if the municipal governments concede to the advisory ‘authorities’
of these WMCs; a national legislation or Presidential Executive Order would strengthen the
participatory governance influence of these WMCs