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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Provisioning of water ecosystem services in the Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya: can prospects of willingness to pay improve water quality and quantity?74
Enhancing water security in a changing world: experiences and perspectives in China and implications for the world30
Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region23
Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas18
Institutional challenges to efficient governance: water, sanitation and wastewater in Egypt16
The international and historical dimensions of Chilean water bureaucracy16
Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story13
The marketization of water: environmental movements’ narratives and common experiences on water transfer projects in Colorado and western Iran12
Water International Best Paper 2021 Awards11
Editors’ introduction11
Editors’ introduction to the IWRA mentored articles section10
Egypt’s water balancing act10
A new water management model and the role of IWRA in water disputes10
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector10
A life exploring blind corners, part two9
Editors’ introduction9
Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers9
Editors’ introduction8
White water footprint: valuable subdivision in water footprint8
Correction8
Recent advances in smart water technology of drainage systems in China8
Advances in the application of smartphones in hydrology8
Looking back, gazing forward – 50 years of international water law7
Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector7
Scalar politics in international water law7
Mismatches between policy planning and implementation on the actively living with flood approach in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta7
Editors’ introduction6
Water International Best Paper 2023 Awards6
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
The effect of policy incoherence on the emergence of groundwater-related subsidence phenomena: a case study from Iran6
Faecal contamination on lettuce irrigated with different water sources in Maputo, Mozambique6
Understanding institutional changes in irrigation management: a comparative case study of two communities in the Venezuelan Andes6
Editors’ introduction6
The current legal framework for pollution control in the Niger River Basin relative to SDG 6.35
Sanctioned discourse and the power of hegemonic imaginings5
Participatory analysis of water-related conflict risks in complex adaptive systems – the case of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali5
Governance and management of large US river basins in diverse regions under a federal government model5
Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis5
Water environment governance under the Central Environmental Protection Inspection mechanism: a collaborative governance strategy from a multi-agent perspective5
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure in public water enterprises in Andalusia, Spain5
How does a master plan contribute to strengthening transboundary water management? A case study in West Africa5
Critical success factors for sustainably establishing localized groundwater supply systems5
The Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture: Environment and Development: Urgent Need for a Water Perspective5
Climate change is increasing global salt pollution5
Water reuse blueprint: from waste to resource5
Basin-wide knowledge exchange for the sustainable management of the Colorado River5
‘We were displaced several times since 1956’: the Tonga– Goba involuntary resettlement experiences at the Kariba Dam5
Building bridges to achieve SDG 6 and integrated water resources management: an assessment of stakeholder integration in the Saiss region, Morocco5
Virtual water, international relations and the new geopolitics of food4
Africa’s water security in the twenty-first century4
So near, yet so far: an Egyptian perspective on the US-facilitated negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam4
Editors’ introduction4
The role of the private sector in sustainable development4
Governance attributes for building water resilience: a literature review4
Challenges and prospects of reclaimed water reuse in Spanish agriculture4
Performance analysis of Chilean water companies after the privatization of the industry: the influence of ownership4
Water: A biography4
Clearing the waters: a review of transboundary water quality governance4
Editors’ introduction4
Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference?4
Water International Best Paper 2024 Awards4
Community water governance for climate-resilient water security in Fiji4
The extraordinary drought provision and the future of the Rio Grande water deliveries under the 1944 US–Mexico water treaty: an exploratory policy analysis4
What is the role for multistakeholder platforms in transboundary basin governance? Distilling lessons from three cases and applying them in the Incomati Basin4
Model application for monitoring and locating leakages in rural area water pipeline networks4
Managed aquifer recharge in Mexico: proposals for an improved legal framework and public policies4
Letter from the IWRA President4
Irrigated urban agriculture: a mixture of farming scales, water flows and actors in Nairobi, Kenya4
Editors’ introduction4
Addendum4
Different regulatory approaches to enhanced water protection in selected European jurisdictions4
Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data4
Toward global water security and resilience: a call for improved cooperation for coherent responses4
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
Editors’ introduction3
Gender and social inclusion in community water resource management: lessons from two districts in the Himalayan foothills and the Terai in Nepal3
Prospects for restoration of Ukraine’s irrigation system3
International water law and hydropolitics: an enquiry into the water conflict between India and Nepal3
Fifty years of excellence in water resources research: insights from the most cited articles per decade published in Water International3
Water governance and system coordination across diverse risk-management cultures3
The first new IWRA Executive Board of our second half-century, 2022-20243
Irrigated agriculture: more than ‘big water’ and ‘accountants will [not] save the world’3
Governance failures and knowledge asymmetries in the state river basin committees and their impacts on water resource management in Brazil3
The IWRA Executive Board, 2025–20273
Institutionalizing groundwater management and transboundary aquifer cooperation in sub-Saharan lake and river basin organizations3
A complex balance: assessing perspectives on decommissioning large dams to restore river ecosystems3
Ozymandias in the desert: irrigation in Saudi Arabia3
Using data collection to build trust and ownership in transboundary water allocation planning: a case study from the Mara River Basin3
The private sector and water services: a reflection3
Dam operation using satellite data and hydrological models: the case of Roseires dam and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Blue Nile River3
Executive branch responses to judicial resolutions regarding the human right to water and sanitation in Latin America3
The future of piped water3
Identifying and estimating the social values of irrigation: a plea for being explicit3
The governance of water innovation: To quench a thirst3
Transition of Vietnam’s water governance towards sustainability3
Beijing Declaration3
The practices and politics of irrigated urban agriculture3
Assessment method of urban domestic sewage treatment plant-network integration based on current drainage management3
Mixing waters: stakeholder influence in transboundary water conflict and cooperation3
Multistakeholder regional dialogues as catalysers for transboundary water cooperation3
Transparency, regional diversity, and capacity building: cornerstones for trust and engagement in good water governance2
Data-sharing and decision support system to improve governance in transboundary waters in the La Plata River basin2
Public banks and the remunicipalization of water services in Paris2
Integrating waters, bridging boundaries: a comprehensive review of Transboundary Mega-Basin Management for sustainable and equitable water governance2
Contested baselines and transboundary water resources management, with illustrations from the Nile2
Editors’ introduction2
Risk assessment and leakage prediction system of the water distribution system of Changzhou, China2
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
A tale of service regimes in irrigated urban agriculture: evidence from two cities in the Global South2
Reversing deforestation in a time of changing climate: implications for water management2
Towards consistency of value and order: cooperation strategies of international water projects2
Celebrating 50 years of Water International – a legacy of leadership, knowledge, and impact2
Economic analysis of public investment in alternative agricultural water management schemes: a case study from northern Ghana2
Spatial heterogeneity of household water insecurity in rural Uganda: implications for development2
Revisiting water insecurity and the state2
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees of an urban park in Amsterdam2
Squeezed by austerity and pressured to recover costs: Portugal’s municipal water operators in need of public bank finance2
Assessment of the failure to implement a much-needed rural water and sanitation project in Brazil2
Lake Victoria water levels declining (2000-2006): the role of absent and uncertain data in a transboundary water controversy2
Technological solutions for harnessing the urban water potential in the Bengal Delta – a scenario planning approach2
Economies of water in Delhi: a neo-Polanyian analysis2
Supply chain water-reporting practices in the food, beverage and tobacco sector: a comparative study2
Agriculture and the ideals of urban modernity: the case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania2
Governance in the La Plata River Basin and OECD principles: an opinion survey of transboundary water professionals2
Groundwater use for urban water security in tropical Africa – operational situation and institutional perspectives2
Comparing the impacts of different irrigation systems on the livelihoods of women and youth: evidence from clustered data in Ghana2
Advances in monitoring transboundary water cooperation? Reflecting on the development and implementation of SDG indicator 6.5.22
A critical review of the transboundary aquifers in South-Eastern Europe and new insights from the EU’s water framework directive implementation process2
Editors’ introduction2
Water-food-energy nexus assessment for major agricultural crops and different irrigation methods of Lake Urmia basin, Iran2
Rethinking urban water management: a case study of vulnerability in the Kingston Basin2
Stakeholders in Ghana’s water sector development and implications for rural water tariff payment: a review2
Addressing water security through catchment water stewardship partnerships: experiences from the Pangani Basin, Tanzania2
Climate change and the water quality threats posed by the emerging contaminants per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and microplastics2
Editors’ introduction2
Assessing the capacity gaps of decentralized rural water management: qualitative evidence from Ghana2
Irrigation and its wider regional impacts in Australia2
Exploring the use of data and models in transboundary water governance1
Political ecological perspectives on an indicator-based urban water framework1
Locating the channel and other tales from the river bank: constants and change in river boundary delimitation1
Water supply in Covid-19 times: the role of public operators, housing associations and informal providers in Arequipa, Peru1
Collective aquifer governance: Dispute prevention for groundwater and aquifers through unitization1
Editors’ introduction1
Integrating spatial and social characteristics in the DPSIR framework for the sustainable management of river basins: case study of the Katari River Basin, Bolivia1
Socio-political barriers to sustainable urban water governance: the case of Cartagena, Colombia1
Words from the pages of Water International of the first 15 IWRA presidents1
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
Water governance in the Mekong region: the role and impact of civil society organizations1
Four birds with one stone? opportunities and challenges in adopting solar irrigation for a sustainable water-energy-food nexus with carbon credits1
Tracking water governance impacts: an example from the Kenyan water sector1
Editors’ introduction1
Sewage system diagnosis based on online monitoring technology1
How virtual water saved the Middle East from water wars1
A life exploring blind corners1
Malin Falkenmark, 1925–20231
Empowering global water governance: taking the 2023 UN Water Conference outcomes forward to address the current water crises1
Water International Best Paper 2022 Awards1
On contingency, confidence and trust: how international water law stabilizes expectations under conditions of uncertainty1
Patterns in transboundary aquifer governance: comparative analysis of eight case studies from the perspective of efficacy1
Courts, rights of rivers and the city: insights from Ecuador1
Ecohydrology-based landscape restoration: Theory and practice1
Public banks, public water: exploring the links in Europe1
From turnkey to partnership: project-based water diplomacy in the Lancang–Mekong Basin1
The ICPR measuring programme chemistry and its monitoring approach – a look back and a glimpse of the future1
Tailored approaches of data collection for improved water system management in resource constrained contexts: lessons from Ethiopia1
Accountants will save the world!1
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
What is the state of water infrastructure governance research in Nigeria? A review1
Saving water by returning to a constant water supply in Chihuahua1
Introduction to section 11
Evaluating the effectiveness of land and water integrative practices for achieving water sustainability within the Colorado River Basin: perceptions and indicators1
Expectations and reality of IWRM implementation across 30 years of water management in Poland1
Liminal waters, contested imaginaries: Andean comunas and Ecuador’s new water law1
Editors’ introduction1
Untapping the sustainable water bank’s public financing for Dutch drinking water companies1
Boldly boring: public banks and public water in the Nordic region1
The evolution of markets for water pollution allowances in China: a case study of Jiaxing1
Stalemate of the hydrological master variable? The challenge of implementing environmental flows in the Orange–Senqu basin1
France’s performance vis-a-vis the 12 OECD Principles on Water Governance1
The evolution of the modern dam conflict on the Snake River, USA1
Towards governance of private land for flood risk management in Europe1
More than chair circles? A qualitative systematic review of serious games related to water governance and their potential effects on policy design1
Reflections on transboundary water conflict and cooperation trends1
Remembering William ‘Bill’ Cosgrove (1932–2024)1
Editors’ introduction1
Developing the transboundary Long Term Vision of the Scheldt Estuary – an untold story1
‘Tony here!’ Reflections on Professor Tony Allan1
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
Land reclamation projects in the Egyptian Western Desert: management of 1.5 million acres of groundwater irrigation1
Halfway to 2075: introduction to part 1 of the Water International 50th anniversary special issue1
Benefit-sharing dialogue to promote and guide investment decisions in the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi (SMM) transboundary basin, shared between Kenya and Uganda1
Unexpected bright spots: how the pandemic, climate change and biodiversity loss are shaping the evolution of the nexus1
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