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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Water International Best Paper 2022 Awards49
A life exploring blind corners47
From zero-sum to variable-sum on the Nile31
The extraordinary drought provision and the future of the Rio Grande water deliveries under the 1944 US–Mexico water treaty: an exploratory policy analysis25
Model application for monitoring and locating leakages in rural area water pipeline networks25
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees of an urban park in Amsterdam23
Promoting water conservation habits in shower use: review of water utility websites in OECD cities19
Editors’ introduction13
Economic analysis of public investment in alternative agricultural water management schemes: a case study from northern Ghana11
A note from the editors11
Editors' introduction9
Toward global water security and resilience: a call for improved cooperation for coherent responses9
Does financial inclusion improve household drinking water source? An application to the case of Togo9
Water International Best Paper 2019 Awards9
Agri-vector water: boosting rainfed agriculture with urban water allocation to support urban–rural linkages8
Performance analysis of Chilean water companies after the privatization of the industry: the influence of ownership8
Institutional challenges to efficient governance: water, sanitation and wastewater in Egypt8
Spatial heterogeneity of household water insecurity in rural Uganda: implications for development7
Professor Tony Allan and Libya7
Governance attributes for building water resilience: a literature review7
Enhancing water security in a changing world: experiences and perspectives in China and implications for the world7
Editors’ introduction6
Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story6
Assessing the soundness of water governance: lessons learned from applying the 10 Building Blocks Approach6
What is the state of water infrastructure governance research in Nigeria? A review6
Water: A biography6
Urban potable reuse: contrasting perspectives of water industry professionals and elected politicians in Sydney, Australia6
Editors’ introduction6
Introduction to section 16
Data-sharing and decision support system to improve governance in transboundary waters in the La Plata River basin5
International water law in 20705
Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data5
Patterns in transboundary aquifer governance: comparative analysis of eight case studies from the perspective of efficacy5
Social cost–benefit analysis of natural treatment systems in India: implications for benefits model and governance5
Provisioning of water ecosystem services in the Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya: can prospects of willingness to pay improve water quality and quantity?5
The international and historical dimensions of Chilean water bureaucracy5
Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference?5
Locating the channel and other tales from the river bank: constants and change in river boundary delimitation4
Access to water and COVID-19: a regression discontinuity analysis for the peri-urban areas of metropolitan Lima, Peru4
White or blue water footprint? Components of water footprint model of crops4
Beyond barriers: the fluid roles young people adopt in water conflict and cooperation4
The marketization of water: environmental movements’ narratives and common experiences on water transfer projects in Colorado and western Iran4
International Meuse Commission: 20 years of cooperation4
Community water governance for climate-resilient water security in Fiji4
Water demand and usage trends among group water schemes: implication for water conservation in Ireland4
Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region4
Recent advances in smart water technology of drainage systems in China4
Transparency, regional diversity, and capacity building: cornerstones for trust and engagement in good water governance4
Remembering Michael Campana (1948–2024)4
Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas4
The role of science in international water law3
The optics of ‘Day Zero’ and the role of the state in water security for a township in Cape Town (South Africa)3
Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers3
Critical analysis of the river basin management system in South Korea since 20183
Reversing deforestation in a time of changing climate: implications for water management3
I remember Tony3
Egypt’s water balancing act3
Water International Best Paper 2020 Awards3
Institutions for reoperating reservoirs in semi-arid regions facing climate change and competing societal water demands: insights from Colorado3
An evaluation framework for localized groundwater supply systems at critical facilities3
Water International Best Paper 2021 Awards3
Water governance in the Mekong region: the role and impact of civil society organizations3
Groundwater use for urban water security in tropical Africa – operational situation and institutional perspectives3
Irrigation and its wider regional impacts in Australia3
A life exploring blind corners, part two3
‘Tony here!’ Reflections on Professor Tony Allan3
Correction3
A new water management model and the role of IWRA in water disputes3
Introduction to section 23
Institutionalizing groundwater management and transboundary aquifer cooperation in sub-Saharan lake and river basin organizations3
Addendum3
The European Investment Bank and its role in financing public water3
A role for the IWRA in international water disputes?3
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector3
Editors’ introduction3
Resolving the problems of commensurability in valuing water2
Squeezed by austerity and pressured to recover costs: Portugal’s municipal water operators in need of public bank finance2
The future of piped water2
Rural water provision at the state-society interface in Latin America2
Governance in the La Plata River Basin and OECD principles: an opinion survey of transboundary water professionals2
Assessment of the failure to implement a much-needed rural water and sanitation project in Brazil2
Supply chain water-reporting practices in the food, beverage and tobacco sector: a comparative study2
The governance of water innovation: To quench a thirst2
Identifying and estimating the social values of irrigation: a plea for being explicit2
Governance failures and knowledge asymmetries in the state river basin committees and their impacts on water resource management in Brazil2
Exploring the use of data and models in transboundary water governance2
Editors’ introduction2
Contested baselines and transboundary water resources management, with illustrations from the Nile2
Different regulatory approaches to enhanced water protection in selected European jurisdictions2
Changing the development paradigm in African agricultural water management to resolve water and food challenges2
Scalable Water Balances from Earth Observations (SWEO): results from 50 years of remote sensing in hydrology2
Water insecurity, water borrowing and psychosocial stress among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya2
Can measuring the impact of water governance turn the tide?2
Managerial, clientelist or populist? Lake governance in the Indian city of Bangalore2
Land reclamation projects in the Egyptian Western Desert: management of 1.5 million acres of groundwater irrigation2
Assessing the capacity gaps of decentralized rural water management: qualitative evidence from Ghana2
Lessons from the last 30 years for future water resource management in national and transboundary basins2
IWRA 50th anniversary interview2
Editors’ introduction2
Mismatches between policy planning and implementation on the actively living with flood approach in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta2
‘No one can compete since no one dares to lend more cheaply!’: Turkey’s Ilbank and public water finance2
Economies of water in Delhi: a neo-Polanyian analysis2
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 Basin2
Beijing Declaration2
Can sponge city construction in mainland China restore the river basin hydrology to an undeveloped state?2
International water law and hydropolitics: an enquiry into the water conflict between India and Nepal2
A comparative analysis of urban and rural household water insecurity experiences during the 2011–17 drought in Ceará, Brazil2
Analysing water provision in the critical interface of formal and informal urban water regimes2
Gender and social inclusion in community water resource management: lessons from two districts in the Himalayan foothills and the Terai in Nepal2
White water footprint: valuable subdivision in water footprint2
Editors’ introduction2
Water International Best Paper 2018 Awards2
The role of the private sector in sustainable development2
Ozymandias in the desert: irrigation in Saudi Arabia1
Editors’ introduction1
How decisions are made by politicians through the advocacy of peer reviewed research: the lens of advocacy coalition theory1
A complex balance: assessing perspectives on decommissioning large dams to restore river ecosystems1
Looking back, gazing forward – 50 years of international water law1
Binational reflections on pathways to groundwater security in the Mexico–United States borderlands1
Recollections of a peacemaker1
Dam operation using satellite data and hydrological models: the case of Roseires dam and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Blue Nile River1
Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector1
Technological solutions for harnessing the urban water potential in the Bengal Delta – a scenario planning approach1
Multiple-use water systems and rural livelihoods in north-western Ghana: adjusting to a failed hope1
Correction1
Adaptive governance and evolution of a groundwater-based resilient city: a case study of Kure City, Japan1
Empowering global water governance: taking the 2023 UN Water Conference outcomes forward to address the current water crises1
Editors’ introduction1
Does bilateral trade in cereals within SADC reflect virtual trade in water between countries with different water endowments?1
Farming and the city: the changing imaginary of the city and Maputo’s irrigated urban agriculture from 1960 to 20201
A multifaceted quantitative index for sustainability assessment of groundwater management: application for aquifers around Iran1
The IWRA Executive Board, 2025–20271
Optimization of urban water distribution networks using heuristic methods: an overview1
Prospects for restoration of Ukraine’s irrigation system1
The Information Strategy Model: a framework for developing a monitoring strategy for national policy making and SDG6 reporting1
Faecal contamination on lettuce irrigated with different water sources in Maputo, Mozambique1
Climate change and the water quality threats posed by the emerging contaminants per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and microplastics1
The evolution of the modern dam conflict on the Snake River, USA1
Interview1
Groundwater policies and irrigation development: a study of West Bengal, India, 1980–20161
A reply to Lankford and Agol (2024). Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis1
Malin Falkenmark, 1925–20231
Farmers will save the world1
Water and complex problemsheds in Karamoja, Uganda1
Editors’ introduction1
Towards durable legal protections for rivers in Chile1
Does data lead to cooperation? Lessons from Water Accounting Plus in the Cauvery basin, India1
Open-access remote sensing data for cooperation in transboundary water management1
Tracking water governance impacts: an example from the Kenyan water sector1
Rethinking urban water management: a case study of vulnerability in the Kingston Basin1
A shared water culture between the European Union and the Countries of the Eastern Neighbourhood1
Water wars, conflict and cooperation – how the virtual water concept helped change the discourse1
Expectations and reality of IWRM implementation across 30 years of water management in Poland1
Correction1
The effect of policy incoherence on the emergence of groundwater-related subsidence phenomena: a case study from Iran1
Governance of the binational basin of the Bermejo and Grande de Tarija rivers between Argentina and Bolivia (1995–2019)1
Advances in the application of smartphones in hydrology1
Integrating spatial and social characteristics in the DPSIR framework for the sustainable management of river basins: case study of the Katari River Basin, Bolivia1
Reduction of micropollutants in the Rhine catchment area – monitoring and assessment system1
Understanding institutional changes in irrigation management: a comparative case study of two communities in the Venezuelan Andes1
Transboundary water governance challenges in the Mahakali River basin: a view from Nepal and way forward1
Benefit-sharing dialogue to promote and guide investment decisions in the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi (SMM) transboundary basin, shared between Kenya and Uganda1
Risk assessment and leakage prediction system of the water distribution system of Changzhou, China1
Local institutional adaptation to groundwater overexploitation challenges: case study from Copiapó aquifer, Chile1
The role of virtual-water decoupling in achieving food–water security: lessons from Egypt, 1962–20131
Reflecting on water challenges of the past, present and future: an intergenerational perspective1
Agriculture and the ideals of urban modernity: the case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania1
Lake Victoria water levels declining (2000-2006): the role of absent and uncertain data in a transboundary water controversy1
How virtual water saved the Middle East from water wars1
A tale of service regimes in irrigated urban agriculture: evidence from two cities in the Global South1
Public water without (public) financial mediation? Remunicipalizing water in Valladolid, Spain1
Words from the pages of Water International of the first 15 IWRA presidents1
Multistakeholder regional dialogues as catalysers for transboundary water cooperation1
The ICPR measuring programme chemistry and its monitoring approach – a look back and a glimpse of the future1
Developing the transboundary Long Term Vision of the Scheldt Estuary – an untold story1
Yahia Abdel Mageed (1925–2021)1
Towards an enhancement of the climate change mitigation capacity of inland saline shallow lakes through hydrological regime and vegetation management: a modelling approach1
Lesson learning in the Colorado River Basin1
Take it as a compliment: integrating complementary measures as the next chapter of Murray–Darling Basin water management1
Evidence of emotions and psychological defences in urban water-efficiency campaigns’ communications1
Assessing water management through decentralization: state–region issues in the Ebro Basin (Spain)1
Liminal waters, contested imaginaries: Andean comunas and Ecuador’s new water law1
Scalar politics in international water law1
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
Assessing the value of third parties in transboundary water governance: a constructivist institutionalism perspective on the Incomati River Basin1
Towards consistency of value and order: cooperation strategies of international water projects1
Social acceptance of greywater reuse in water scarce urban areas1
Editors’ introduction1
Editors’ introduction1
Mixing waters: stakeholder influence in transboundary water conflict and cooperation1
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