OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Water International is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Water insecurity compounds the global coronavirus crisis	39
Governing water insecurity: navigating indigenous water rights and regulatory politics in settler colonial states	34
The potential impact of water quality on the spread and control of COVID-19 in Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon	32
COVID-19 and water resources management: reframing our priorities as a water sector	31
COVID-19 heightens water problems around the world	27
Mercury pollution in Colombia: challenges to reduce the use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the light of the Minamata Convention	26
Water and sanitation in Dhaka slums: access, quality, and informality in service provision	19
A review on implementing managed aquifer recharge in the Middle East and North Africa region: methods, progress and challenges	19
COVID-19 ‘free water’ initiatives in the Global South: what does the Ghanaian case mean for equitable and sustainable water services?	19
The moral hazards of smart water management	18
Informal water vendors and the urban poor: evidence from a Nairobi slum	17
China’s water diplomacy in the Mekong: a paradigm shift and the role of Yunnan provincial government	17
Water: consumption, usage patterns, and residential infrastructure. A comparative analysis of three regions in the Lima metropolitan area	15
The impact of COVID-19 on water and food systems: flattening the much bigger curve ahead	15
Exploring challenges in safe water availability and accessibility in preventing COVID-19 in refugee settlements	15
Economy-wide assessment of potential long-term impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Sudan	14
Water use characteristics and impact factors in the Yellow River basin, China	13
The devil’s in the details: data exchange in transboundary waters	13
A source-to-sea approach to emerging pollutants in freshwater and oceans: pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea region	13
Exploring water access in rural Kenya: narratives of social capital, gender inequalities and household water security in Kitui county	12
Reconceptualization of the Transboundary Water Interaction Nexus (TWINS): approaches, opportunities and challenges	12
Autogestiónand water sharing networks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María	12
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam and its consequences	11
Unpacking wastewater reuse arrangements through a new framework: insights from the analysis of Egypt	11
Power in water diplomacy	11

Exploring the future impacts of urbanization and climate change on groundwater in Arusha, Tanzania	11
Energizing Mid–East water diplomacy: The potential for regional water–energy exchanges	10
Integrating spatial and social characteristics in the DPSIR framework for the sustainable management of river basins: case study of the Katari River Basin, Bolivia	10
Women and WASH in Nepal: a scoping review of existing literature	10
Water research and nationalism in the post-truth era	9
A methodology to identify vulnerable transboundary aquifer hotspots for multi-scale groundwater management	9
Lesson learning in the Colorado River Basin	9
Knowledge, context and problemsheds: a critical realist method for interdisciplinary water studies	9
Advancing urban water security: The urbanization of water–society relations and entry–points for political engagement	8
Integrated Smart Water Management of the sanitation system of the Greater Paris region	8
When the river does not naturally flow: a case study of unsustainable management in the Tagus River (Spain)	7
Drip irrigation as a socio-technical configuration: policy design and technological choice in Western India	7
An adaptation pathways approach to water management and governance of tourist islands: the example of the Southern Aegean Region in Greece	7
Institutional innovation and smart water management technologies in small-scale irrigation schemes in southern Africa	7
Livelihood security enhancement though innovative water management in dryland India	7
The effect of policy incoherence on the emergence of groundwater-related subsidence phenomena: a case study from Iran	7
Land reclamation projects in the Egyptian Western Desert: management of 1.5 million acres of groundwater irrigation	7
A comparative analysis of urban and rural household water insecurity experiences during the 2011–17 drought in Ceará, Brazil	7
A multifaceted quantitative index for sustainability assessment of groundwater management: application for aquifers around Iran	6
Environmental management in the Bohai and Baltic seas from a source-to-sea perspective: challenges and opportunities	6
Community response to the provision of alternative water supplies: A focus on chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) in rural Sri Lanka	6
Achieving drinking water and sanitation related targets of SDG 6 at Shahidbug slum, Dhaka	6
Rural water provision at the state-society interface in Latin America	6
Evaluating the effectiveness of land and water integrative practices for achieving water sustainability within the Colorado River Basin: perceptions and indicators	6
A GIS-based solution for urban water management	6
Anticipating elite capture: the social devaluation of municipal tap water users in the Phoenix metropolitan area	6
Untapping the sustainable water bank’s public financing for Dutch drinking water companies	5
Building foundations for source-to-sea management: the case of sediment management in the Lake Hawassa sub-basin of the Ethiopian Rift Valley	5
Contested baselines and transboundary water resources management, with illustrations from the Nile	5
Mapping and navigating ontologies in water governance: the case of the Ganges	5
Success and sustainability of nutrient pollution reduction in the Danube River Basin: recovery and future protection of the Black Sea Northwest shelf	5
The practical challenges of achieving sustainable wetland agriculture in Nigeria’s Cross River basin	5
Water law and the response to COVID-19	5
Climate change and the water quality threats posed by the emerging contaminants per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and microplastics	5
Community-of-interests across source-to-sea systems: an international law perspective	4
Promoting water conservation habits in shower use: review of water utility websites in OECD cities	4
Mobilization of bias: learning from drought and flood crises in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Jakarta	4
Smart water management: can it improve accessibility and affordability of water for everyone?	4
Ozymandias in the desert: irrigation in Saudi Arabia	4
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector	4
Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference?	4
A critical review of the transboundary aquifers in South-Eastern Europe and new insights from the EU’s water framework directive implementation process	4
When the water runs dry: supporting adaptive governance in transboundary river basins	4
A visualization tool for citizen-science marine debris big data	4
Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region	4
The implications of social and economic barriers to safe drinking water for municipal level policy in Ghana	4
When the virtual water runs out: local and global responses to addressing unsustainable groundwater consumption	4
‘We were displaced several times since 1956’: the Tonga– Goba involuntary resettlement experiences at the Kariba Dam	4
Binational reflections on pathways to groundwater security in the Mexico–United States borderlands	4
Strategies for climate change adaptation: lessons learnt from long-term planning in the Netherlands and Bangladesh	3

SWM and urban water: Smart management for an absurd system?	3
The water–man eristic dialectics for sustainable hydro-governance	3
Editors’ introduction to the IWRA Mentored Articles section	3
Smart Water Management: the way to (artificially) intelligent water management, or just another pretty name?	3
Learning from the past to build the future governance of groundwater use in agriculture	3
Water wars, conflict and cooperation – how the virtual water concept helped change the discourse	3
Using innovative smart water management technologies to monitor water provision to refugees	3
Diffusion of small-scale pumped irrigation technologies and their association with farmer-led irrigation development in Malawi	3
Advances in monitoring transboundary water cooperation? Reflecting on the development and implementation of SDG indicator 6.5.2	3
Power plus: Tony Allan’s contributions to understanding transboundary water arrangements	3
Boldly boring: public banks and public water in the Nordic region	3
Do needs motivate the exchange of data in transboundary waters? Insights from Africa’s shared basins	3
Lake Victoria water levels declining (2000-2006): the role of absent and uncertain data in a transboundary water controversy	3
Assessing the operational efficiency of wastewater services whilst accounting for data uncertainty and service quality: a semi-parametric approach	3
Sino-Kazakhstan transboundary water allocation cooperation study: analysis of willingness and policy implementation	3
Transparency, regional diversity, and capacity building: cornerstones for trust and engagement in good water governance	3
Persisting narratives undermine potential water scarcity solutions for informal areas of Mexico City: the case of two settlements in Xochimilco	3
Water insecurity and patchwork adaptability in Bangalore’s low-income neighbourhoods	3
Climate change is increasing global salt pollution	3
Impact of land use and occupation on potential groundwater recharge in a Brazilian savannah watershed	3
Masculinity and smart water management: why we need a critical perspective	3
Changing the development paradigm in African agricultural water management to resolve water and food challenges	3
Agri-vector water: boosting rainfed agriculture with urban water allocation to support urban–rural linkages	3