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Governments and developing agencies promote participatory approaches in solving common pool resource problems, such as in the water sector. Two main participatory approaches have been applied separately, namely negotiation and mediation. In this paper the authors apply the Role-Playing Game that is a component of the Companion Modeling approach, a negotiation procedure, and the Cooperative Game Theory (Shapley value and the Nucleolus solution concepts) that can be mirrored as a mediated mechanism to a water allocation problem in the Kat watershed in South Africa. While the absolute results of the two approaches differ, the negotiation and the cooperative game theory provide similar shares of the benefit allocated to the players from various cooperative arrangements. By evaluating the two approaches, the authors provide useful tips for future extension for both the Role-Playing Games and the Cooperative Game Theory applications.

Catchment --- Catchment Management --- Catchments --- Common Property Resource Development --- Domestic Water Consumption --- Environment --- Environmental Economics and Policies --- Flow --- Groundwater --- Industry --- Irrigation --- Lead --- Meters --- Natural Resources --- Rainfall --- Rural Development --- Sanitation and Sewerage --- Storage Capacity --- Surface Water --- Total Water Requirements --- Town Water Supply and Sanitation --- Wastewater Treatment --- Water --- Water and Industry --- Water Conservation --- Water Resources --- Water Rights --- Water Sector --- Water Sources --- Water Supply and Sanitation --- Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions --- Water Supply and Systems --- Water Use --- Watershed