Water International

Papers
(The median citation count of Water International is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region62
The marketization of water: environmental movements’ narratives and common experiences on water transfer projects in Colorado and western Iran26
Provisioning of water ecosystem services in the Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya: can prospects of willingness to pay improve water quality and quantity?26
Enhancing water security in a changing world: experiences and perspectives in China and implications for the world25
Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas22
The international and historical dimensions of Chilean water bureaucracy21
Institutional challenges to efficient governance: water, sanitation and wastewater in Egypt18
Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story12
Water International Best Paper 2021 Awards11
Editors’ introduction10
A new water management model and the role of IWRA in water disputes9
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector9
A life exploring blind corners, part two9
Editors’ introduction9
Egypt’s water balancing act9
Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers8
Editors’ introduction8
Recent advances in smart water technology of drainage systems in China8
Resolving the problems of commensurability in valuing water8
White water footprint: valuable subdivision in water footprint7
Correction7
Mismatches between policy planning and implementation on the actively living with flood approach in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta7
Advances in the application of smartphones in hydrology7
Scalar politics in international water law7
Looking back, gazing forward – 50 years of international water law7
Does data lead to cooperation? Lessons from Water Accounting Plus in the Cauvery basin, India6
Assessing water management through decentralization: state–region issues in the Ebro Basin (Spain)6
Editors’ introduction6
Understanding institutional changes in irrigation management: a comparative case study of two communities in the Venezuelan Andes6
Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector6
Faecal contamination on lettuce irrigated with different water sources in Maputo, Mozambique6
The effect of policy incoherence on the emergence of groundwater-related subsidence phenomena: a case study from Iran6
Editors’ introduction5
Participatory analysis of water-related conflict risks in complex adaptive systems – the case of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali5
Sanctioned discourse and the power of hegemonic imaginings5
Climate change is increasing global salt pollution5
The Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture: Environment and Development: Urgent Need for a Water Perspective5
Critical success factors for sustainably establishing localized groundwater supply systems5
Water insecurity and the state: failure, disconnection and autonomy5
Water reuse blueprint: from waste to resource5
Water International Best Paper 2023 Awards5
Basin-wide knowledge exchange for the sustainable management of the Colorado River5
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure in public water enterprises in Andalusia, Spain5
The current legal framework for pollution control in the Niger River Basin relative to SDG 6.35
Africa’s water security in the twenty-first century4
Governance and management of large US river basins in diverse regions under a federal government model4
So near, yet so far: an Egyptian perspective on the US-facilitated negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam4
Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis4
Water International Best Paper 2019 Awards4
Water: A biography4
Community water governance for climate-resilient water security in Fiji4
Water research and nationalism in the post-truth era4
Virtual water, international relations and the new geopolitics of food4
How does a master plan contribute to strengthening transboundary water management? A case study in West Africa4
Building bridges to achieve SDG 6 and integrated water resources management: an assessment of stakeholder integration in the Saiss region, Morocco4
Irrigated urban agriculture: a mixture of farming scales, water flows and actors in Nairobi, Kenya4
Model application for monitoring and locating leakages in rural area water pipeline networks4
Editors’ introduction4
The extraordinary drought provision and the future of the Rio Grande water deliveries under the 1944 US–Mexico water treaty: an exploratory policy analysis4
Letter from the IWRA President4
Editors’ introduction4
‘We were displaced several times since 1956’: the Tonga– Goba involuntary resettlement experiences at the Kariba Dam4
Managed aquifer recharge in Mexico: proposals for an improved legal framework and public policies4
Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference?4
Toward global water security and resilience: a call for improved cooperation for coherent responses4
Editors’ introduction4
Governance attributes for building water resilience: a literature review4
Governance failures and knowledge asymmetries in the state river basin committees and their impacts on water resource management in Brazil3
Prospects for restoration of Ukraine’s irrigation system3
The IWRA Executive Board, 2025–20273
Transition of Vietnam’s water governance towards sustainability3
The role of the private sector in sustainable development3
Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data3
Performance analysis of Chilean water companies after the privatization of the industry: the influence of ownership3
The future of piped water3
Ozymandias in the desert: irrigation in Saudi Arabia3
Water and complex problemsheds in Karamoja, Uganda3
Does bilateral trade in cereals within SADC reflect virtual trade in water between countries with different water endowments?3
Mixing waters: stakeholder influence in transboundary water conflict and cooperation3
Different regulatory approaches to enhanced water protection in selected European jurisdictions3
Institutionalizing groundwater management and transboundary aquifer cooperation in sub-Saharan lake and river basin organizations3
Water International Best Paper 2020 Awards3
Gender and social inclusion in community water resource management: lessons from two districts in the Himalayan foothills and the Terai in Nepal3
Identifying and estimating the social values of irrigation: a plea for being explicit3
The governance of water innovation: To quench a thirst3
Multistakeholder regional dialogues as catalysers for transboundary water cooperation3
A complex balance: assessing perspectives on decommissioning large dams to restore river ecosystems3
International water law and hydropolitics: an enquiry into the water conflict between India and Nepal3
Challenges and prospects of reclaimed water reuse in Spanish agriculture3
Addendum3
Water International Best Paper 2024 Awards3
Beijing Declaration3
Editors’ introduction3
Addressing water security through catchment water stewardship partnerships: experiences from the Pangani Basin, Tanzania2
Water wars, conflict and cooperation – how the virtual water concept helped change the discourse2
The role of virtual-water decoupling in achieving food–water security: lessons from Egypt, 1962–20132
Urban potable reuse: contrasting perspectives of water industry professionals and elected politicians in Sydney, Australia2
Towards consistency of value and order: cooperation strategies of international water projects2
Economic analysis of public investment in alternative agricultural water management schemes: a case study from northern Ghana2
Assessment of the failure to implement a much-needed rural water and sanitation project in Brazil2
Public banks and the remunicipalization of water services in Paris2
Editors’ introduction2
Using data collection to build trust and ownership in transboundary water allocation planning: a case study from the Mara River Basin2
A critical review of the transboundary aquifers in South-Eastern Europe and new insights from the EU’s water framework directive implementation process2
Dam operation using satellite data and hydrological models: the case of Roseires dam and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Blue Nile River2
Assessment method of urban domestic sewage treatment plant-network integration based on current drainage management2
Governance in the La Plata River Basin and OECD principles: an opinion survey of transboundary water professionals2
Technological solutions for harnessing the urban water potential in the Bengal Delta – a scenario planning approach2
Squeezed by austerity and pressured to recover costs: Portugal’s municipal water operators in need of public bank finance2
Contested baselines and transboundary water resources management, with illustrations from the Nile2
Editors’ introduction2
Data-sharing and decision support system to improve governance in transboundary waters in the La Plata River basin2
Assessing the capacity gaps of decentralized rural water management: qualitative evidence from Ghana2
Spatial heterogeneity of household water insecurity in rural Uganda: implications for development2
Changing the development paradigm in African agricultural water management to resolve water and food challenges2
Advances in monitoring transboundary water cooperation? Reflecting on the development and implementation of SDG indicator 6.5.22
Irrigation and its wider regional impacts in Australia2
Water governance and system coordination across diverse risk-management cultures2
The practices and politics of irrigated urban agriculture2
Irrigated agriculture: more than ‘big water’ and ‘accountants will [not] save the world’2
Reversing deforestation in a time of changing climate: implications for water management2
Stakeholders in Ghana’s water sector development and implications for rural water tariff payment: a review2
Supply chain water-reporting practices in the food, beverage and tobacco sector: a comparative study2
Climate change and the water quality threats posed by the emerging contaminants per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and microplastics2
A tale of service regimes in irrigated urban agriculture: evidence from two cities in the Global South2
Comparing the impacts of different irrigation systems on the livelihoods of women and youth: evidence from clustered data in Ghana2
Transparency, regional diversity, and capacity building: cornerstones for trust and engagement in good water governance2
The Information Strategy Model: a framework for developing a monitoring strategy for national policy making and SDG6 reporting2
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees of an urban park in Amsterdam2
Water International Best Paper 2018 Awards2
Executive branch responses to judicial resolutions regarding the human right to water and sanitation in Latin America2
Economies of water in Delhi: a neo-Polanyian analysis2
The private sector and water services: a reflection2
The first new IWRA Executive Board of our second half-century, 2022-20242
Groundwater use for urban water security in tropical Africa – operational situation and institutional perspectives2
Agriculture and the ideals of urban modernity: the case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania2
Exploring the use of data and models in transboundary water governance1
Rethinking urban water management: a case study of vulnerability in the Kingston Basin1
Liminal waters, contested imaginaries: Andean comunas and Ecuador’s new water law1
How virtual water saved the Middle East from water wars1
The Portuguese dams of the international Douro, climate change and adaptation strategies: perspectives within the framework of the Albufeira Convention and the Water Framework Directive1
To intervene or not: strategic choices of the central government in China’s sub-national hydropolitics1
Unexpected bright spots: how the pandemic, climate change and biodiversity loss are shaping the evolution of the nexus1
Remembering William ‘Bill’ Cosgrove (1932–2024)1
France’s performance vis-a-vis the 12 OECD Principles on Water Governance1
The evolution of markets for water pollution allowances in China: a case study of Jiaxing1
Water-food-energy nexus assessment for major agricultural crops and different irrigation methods of Lake Urmia basin, Iran1
Autogestiónand water sharing networks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María1
Saving water by returning to a constant water supply in Chihuahua1
Water supply in Covid-19 times: the role of public operators, housing associations and informal providers in Arequipa, Peru1
How a millennium-long interplay of controlling climate factors over Southern Europe (1054–2020 CE) has driven the downward trend in Eastern Po Plain water reserves1
Reflections on transboundary water conflict and cooperation trends1
Developing the transboundary Long Term Vision of the Scheldt Estuary – an untold story1
Layers of regulation in transboundary water governance: exploring the role of third states in the Lancang–Mekong1
Locating the channel and other tales from the river bank: constants and change in river boundary delimitation1
The evolution of the modern dam conflict on the Snake River, USA1
A life exploring blind corners1
The optics of ‘Day Zero’ and the role of the state in water security for a township in Cape Town (South Africa)1
Accountants will save the world!1
Risk assessment and leakage prediction system of the water distribution system of Changzhou, China1
How decisions are made by politicians through the advocacy of peer reviewed research: the lens of advocacy coalition theory1
Water governance in the Mekong region: the role and impact of civil society organizations1
Water insecurity and patchwork adaptability in Bangalore’s low-income neighbourhoods1
The ICPR measuring programme chemistry and its monitoring approach – a look back and a glimpse of the future1
Institutions for reoperating reservoirs in semi-arid regions facing climate change and competing societal water demands: insights from Colorado1
Benefit-sharing dialogue to promote and guide investment decisions in the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi (SMM) transboundary basin, shared between Kenya and Uganda1
Public banks, public water: exploring the links in Europe1
Socio-political barriers to sustainable urban water governance: the case of Cartagena, Colombia1
Boldly boring: public banks and public water in the Nordic region1
Stalemate of the hydrological master variable? The challenge of implementing environmental flows in the Orange–Senqu basin1
Evaluating the effectiveness of land and water integrative practices for achieving water sustainability within the Colorado River Basin: perceptions and indicators1
Collective aquifer governance: Dispute prevention for groundwater and aquifers through unitization1
Mobilization of bias: learning from drought and flood crises in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Jakarta1
Integrating spatial and social characteristics in the DPSIR framework for the sustainable management of river basins: case study of the Katari River Basin, Bolivia1
Tracking water governance impacts: an example from the Kenyan water sector1
Expectations and reality of IWRM implementation across 30 years of water management in Poland1
What is the state of water infrastructure governance research in Nigeria? A review1
Editors’ introduction1
A semi-qualitative approach to the operationalization of the Food–Environment–Energy–Water (FE2W) Nexus concept for infrastructure planning: a case study of the Niger Basin1
Editors’ introduction1
Editors’ introduction1
Tailored approaches of data collection for improved water system management in resource constrained contexts: lessons from Ethiopia1
Lake Victoria water levels declining (2000-2006): the role of absent and uncertain data in a transboundary water controversy1
Editors’ introduction1
Land reclamation projects in the Egyptian Western Desert: management of 1.5 million acres of groundwater irrigation1
Malin Falkenmark, 1925–20231
Producing energy, depleting water: the energy sector as a driver of seasonal water scarcity in an extractive frontier of the upper Orinoco watershed, Colombia1
‘Tony here!’ Reflections on Professor Tony Allan1
On contingency, confidence and trust: how international water law stabilizes expectations under conditions of uncertainty1
Editors’ introduction1
Draft legal framework for shared water resources in the Arab World: is it really needed?1
Four birds with one stone? opportunities and challenges in adopting solar irrigation for a sustainable water-energy-food nexus with carbon credits1
Thinking beyond domestic water supply: approaches to advance multiple-use water systems (MUS) in the rural hills of Nepal1
Sewage system diagnosis based on online monitoring technology1
Ecohydrology-based landscape restoration: Theory and practice1
Public water without (public) financial mediation? Remunicipalizing water in Valladolid, Spain1
Courts, rights of rivers and the city: insights from Ecuador1
Patterns in transboundary aquifer governance: comparative analysis of eight case studies from the perspective of efficacy1
Empowering global water governance: taking the 2023 UN Water Conference outcomes forward to address the current water crises1
Water International Best Paper 2022 Awards1
Introduction to section 11
Words from the pages of Water International of the first 15 IWRA presidents1
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