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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Institutional challenges to efficient governance: water, sanitation and wastewater in Egypt57
Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story54
Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region31
Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas25
The international and historical dimensions of Chilean water bureaucracy25
Enhancing water security in a changing world: experiences and perspectives in China and implications for the world25
The marketization of water: environmental movements’ narratives and common experiences on water transfer projects in Colorado and western Iran19
Provisioning of water ecosystem services in the Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya: can prospects of willingness to pay improve water quality and quantity?19
Water International Best Paper 2021 Awards13
A life exploring blind corners, part two12
Egypt’s water balancing act11
Editors’ introduction11
Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers9
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector9
Editors’ introduction9
A new water management model and the role of IWRA in water disputes9
Recent advances in smart water technology of drainage systems in China8
Resolving the problems of commensurability in valuing water7
Correction7
White water footprint: valuable subdivision in water footprint7
Editors’ introduction7
Advances in the application of smartphones in hydrology7
Looking back, gazing forward – 50 years of international water law7
Understanding institutional changes in irrigation management: a comparative case study of two communities in the Venezuelan Andes6
Scalar politics in international water law6
Does data lead to cooperation? Lessons from Water Accounting Plus in the Cauvery basin, India6
Interview6
Assessing water management through decentralization: state–region issues in the Ebro Basin (Spain)6
Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector6
Mismatches between policy planning and implementation on the actively living with flood approach in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta6
Faecal contamination on lettuce irrigated with different water sources in Maputo, Mozambique6
‘We were displaced several times since 1956’: the Tonga– Goba involuntary resettlement experiences at the Kariba Dam5
Editors’ introduction5
Basin-wide knowledge exchange for the sustainable management of the Colorado River5
The Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture: Environment and Development: Urgent Need for a Water Perspective5
The effect of policy incoherence on the emergence of groundwater-related subsidence phenomena: a case study from Iran5
Water insecurity and the state: failure, disconnection and autonomy5
Participatory analysis of water-related conflict risks in complex adaptive systems – the case of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali5
Editors’ introduction5
Water International Best Paper 2023 Awards5
Sanctioned discourse and the power of hegemonic imaginings5
The current legal framework for pollution control in the Niger River Basin relative to SDG 6.34
Governance and management of large US river basins in diverse regions under a federal government model4
A review on implementing managed aquifer recharge in the Middle East and North Africa region: methods, progress and challenges4
Letter from the IWRA President4
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure in public water enterprises in Andalusia, Spain4
Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis4
Building bridges to achieve SDG 6 and integrated water resources management: an assessment of stakeholder integration in the Saiss region, Morocco4
Water research and nationalism in the post-truth era4
So near, yet so far: an Egyptian perspective on the US-facilitated negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam4
How does a master plan contribute to strengthening transboundary water management? A case study in West Africa4
Climate change is increasing global salt pollution4
Water reuse blueprint: from waste to resource4
Critical success factors for sustainably establishing localized groundwater supply systems4
Challenges and prospects of reclaimed water reuse in Spanish agriculture3
Editors’ introduction3
Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data3
Virtual water, international relations and the new geopolitics of food3
Irrigated urban agriculture: a mixture of farming scales, water flows and actors in Nairobi, Kenya3
Toward global water security and resilience: a call for improved cooperation for coherent responses3
Institutionalizing groundwater management and transboundary aquifer cooperation in sub-Saharan lake and river basin organizations3
Addendum3
Different regulatory approaches to enhanced water protection in selected European jurisdictions3
The extraordinary drought provision and the future of the Rio Grande water deliveries under the 1944 US–Mexico water treaty: an exploratory policy analysis3
Water International Best Paper 2020 Awards3
Model application for monitoring and locating leakages in rural area water pipeline networks3
Governance attributes for building water resilience: a literature review3
Managed aquifer recharge in Mexico: proposals for an improved legal framework and public policies3
Editors’ introduction3
Governing water insecurity: navigating indigenous water rights and regulatory politics in settler colonial states3
Performance analysis of Chilean water companies after the privatization of the industry: the influence of ownership3
The role of the private sector in sustainable development3
Identifying and estimating the social values of irrigation: a plea for being explicit3
Community water governance for climate-resilient water security in Fiji3
Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference?3
Water International Best Paper 2019 Awards3
Strategies for climate change adaptation: lessons learnt from long-term planning in the Netherlands and Bangladesh3
Africa’s water security in the twenty-first century3
Water: A biography3
Editors’ introduction3
Gender and social inclusion in community water resource management: lessons from two districts in the Himalayan foothills and the Terai in Nepal3
Irrigated agriculture: more than ‘big water’ and ‘accountants will [not] save the world’2
Comparing the impacts of different irrigation systems on the livelihoods of women and youth: evidence from clustered data in Ghana2
Does bilateral trade in cereals within SADC reflect virtual trade in water between countries with different water endowments?2
The practices and politics of irrigated urban agriculture2
Mixing waters: stakeholder influence in transboundary water conflict and cooperation2
Spatial heterogeneity of household water insecurity in rural Uganda: implications for development2
Governance failures and knowledge asymmetries in the state river basin committees and their impacts on water resource management in Brazil2
The IWRA Executive Board, 2025–20272
The private sector and water services: a reflection2
Reversing deforestation in a time of changing climate: implications for water management2
Data-sharing and decision support system to improve governance in transboundary waters in the La Plata River basin2
Irrigation and its wider regional impacts in Australia2
The first new IWRA Executive Board of our second half-century, 2022-20242
Ozymandias in the desert: irrigation in Saudi Arabia2
Prospects for restoration of Ukraine’s irrigation system2
Advances in monitoring transboundary water cooperation? Reflecting on the development and implementation of SDG indicator 6.5.22
Beijing Declaration2
Assessment method of urban domestic sewage treatment plant-network integration based on current drainage management2
A complex balance: assessing perspectives on decommissioning large dams to restore river ecosystems2
Editors’ introduction2
Water governance and system coordination across diverse risk-management cultures2
Groundwater use for urban water security in tropical Africa – operational situation and institutional perspectives2
Editors’ introduction2
Economic analysis of public investment in alternative agricultural water management schemes: a case study from northern Ghana2
The future of piped water2
Dam operation using satellite data and hydrological models: the case of Roseires dam and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Blue Nile River2
International water law and hydropolitics: an enquiry into the water conflict between India and Nepal2
Public banks and the remunicipalization of water services in Paris2
Water and complex problemsheds in Karamoja, Uganda2
Executive branch responses to judicial resolutions regarding the human right to water and sanitation in Latin America2
The governance of water innovation: To quench a thirst2
Using data collection to build trust and ownership in transboundary water allocation planning: a case study from the Mara River Basin2
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees of an urban park in Amsterdam2
A critical review of the transboundary aquifers in South-Eastern Europe and new insights from the EU’s water framework directive implementation process2
Transparency, regional diversity, and capacity building: cornerstones for trust and engagement in good water governance2
Urban potable reuse: contrasting perspectives of water industry professionals and elected politicians in Sydney, Australia2
Multistakeholder regional dialogues as catalysers for transboundary water cooperation2
Developing the transboundary Long Term Vision of the Scheldt Estuary – an untold story1
Producing energy, depleting water: the energy sector as a driver of seasonal water scarcity in an extractive frontier of the upper Orinoco watershed, Colombia1
Supply chain water-reporting practices in the food, beverage and tobacco sector: a comparative study1
Editors’ introduction1
Changing the development paradigm in African agricultural water management to resolve water and food challenges1
Addressing water security through catchment water stewardship partnerships: experiences from the Pangani Basin, Tanzania1
Squeezed by austerity and pressured to recover costs: Portugal’s municipal water operators in need of public bank finance1
Rethinking urban water management: a case study of vulnerability in the Kingston Basin1
How virtual water saved the Middle East from water wars1
Agriculture and the ideals of urban modernity: the case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania1
Public banks, public water: exploring the links in Europe1
Water International Best Paper 2022 Awards1
The role of virtual-water decoupling in achieving food–water security: lessons from Egypt, 1962–20131
Unexpected bright spots: how the pandemic, climate change and biodiversity loss are shaping the evolution of the nexus1
‘Tony here!’ Reflections on Professor Tony Allan1
What is the state of water infrastructure governance research in Nigeria? A review1
France’s performance vis-a-vis the 12 OECD Principles on Water Governance1
Exploring the use of data and models in transboundary water governance1
Empowering global water governance: taking the 2023 UN Water Conference outcomes forward to address the current water crises1
Risk assessment and leakage prediction system of the water distribution system of Changzhou, China1
Land reclamation projects in the Egyptian Western Desert: management of 1.5 million acres of groundwater irrigation1
Accountants will save the world!1
Towards consistency of value and order: cooperation strategies of international water projects1
Expectations and reality of IWRM implementation across 30 years of water management in Poland1
Yahia Abdel Mageed (1925–2021)1
Layers of regulation in transboundary water governance: exploring the role of third states in the Lancang–Mekong1
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
Water insecurity and patchwork adaptability in Bangalore’s low-income neighbourhoods1
Integrating spatial and social characteristics in the DPSIR framework for the sustainable management of river basins: case study of the Katari River Basin, Bolivia1
Editors’ introduction1
Assessment of the failure to implement a much-needed rural water and sanitation project in Brazil1
Mobilization of bias: learning from drought and flood crises in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Jakarta1
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
Economies of water in Delhi: a neo-Polanyian analysis1
Editors’ introduction1
Malin Falkenmark, 1925–20231
The Information Strategy Model: a framework for developing a monitoring strategy for national policy making and SDG6 reporting1
Boldly boring: public banks and public water in the Nordic region1
A life exploring blind corners1
Water wars, conflict and cooperation – how the virtual water concept helped change the discourse1
Water-food-energy nexus assessment for major agricultural crops and different irrigation methods of Lake Urmia basin, Iran1
The optics of ‘Day Zero’ and the role of the state in water security for a township in Cape Town (South Africa)1
Editors’ introduction1
Persisting narratives undermine potential water scarcity solutions for informal areas of Mexico City: the case of two settlements in Xochimilco1
Locating the channel and other tales from the river bank: constants and change in river boundary delimitation1
Words from the pages of Water International of the first 15 IWRA presidents1
Unpacking wastewater reuse arrangements through a new framework: insights from the analysis of Egypt1
Institutions for reoperating reservoirs in semi-arid regions facing climate change and competing societal water demands: insights from Colorado1
Tailored approaches of data collection for improved water system management in resource constrained contexts: lessons from Ethiopia1
Assessing the capacity gaps of decentralized rural water management: qualitative evidence from Ghana1
Liminal waters, contested imaginaries: Andean comunas and Ecuador’s new water law1
How decisions are made by politicians through the advocacy of peer reviewed research: the lens of advocacy coalition theory1
Public water without (public) financial mediation? Remunicipalizing water in Valladolid, Spain1
Reflections on transboundary water conflict and cooperation trends1
Governance in the La Plata River Basin and OECD principles: an opinion survey of transboundary water professionals1
Ecohydrology-based landscape restoration: Theory and practice1
Water International Best Paper 2018 Awards1
Lake Victoria water levels declining (2000-2006): the role of absent and uncertain data in a transboundary water controversy1
Technological solutions for harnessing the urban water potential in the Bengal Delta – a scenario planning approach1
The ICPR measuring programme chemistry and its monitoring approach – a look back and a glimpse of the future1
Contested baselines and transboundary water resources management, with illustrations from the Nile1
Four birds with one stone? opportunities and challenges in adopting solar irrigation for a sustainable water-energy-food nexus with carbon credits1
Editors’ introduction1
Climate change and the water quality threats posed by the emerging contaminants per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and microplastics1
Evaluating the effectiveness of land and water integrative practices for achieving water sustainability within the Colorado River Basin: perceptions and indicators1
Patterns in transboundary aquifer governance: comparative analysis of eight case studies from the perspective of efficacy1
A tale of service regimes in irrigated urban agriculture: evidence from two cities in the Global South1
Saving water by returning to a constant water supply in Chihuahua1
Rural water provision at the state-society interface in Latin America1
Introduction to section 11
To intervene or not: strategic choices of the central government in China’s sub-national hydropolitics1
Water governance in the Mekong region: the role and impact of civil society organizations1
Tracking water governance impacts: an example from the Kenyan water sector1
Sewage system diagnosis based on online monitoring technology1
The evolution of the modern dam conflict on the Snake River, USA1
Remembering William ‘Bill’ Cosgrove (1932–2024)1
Stakeholders in Ghana’s water sector development and implications for rural water tariff payment: a review1
Editors’ introduction1
Benefit-sharing dialogue to promote and guide investment decisions in the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi (SMM) transboundary basin, shared between Kenya and Uganda1
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