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Papers

(The TQCC of Water International is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Enhancing water security in a changing world: experiences and perspectives in China and implications for the world	96
Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas	27
Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story	26
Provisioning of water ecosystem services in the Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya: can prospects of willingness to pay improve water quality and quantity?	22
The international and historical dimensions of Chilean water bureaucracy	21
The marketization of water: environmental movements’ narratives and common experiences on water transfer projects in Colorado and western Iran	17
Water International Best Paper 2021 Awards	16
Editors’ introduction	16
Egypt’s water balancing act	15
A life exploring blind corners, part two	12
Editors’ introduction	11
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector	11
Recent advances in smart water technology of drainage systems in China	11
Editors’ introduction to the IWRA mentored articles section	10
Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers	10
Scalar politics in international water law	9
Advances in the application of smartphones in hydrology	9
Correction	9
Editors’ introduction	9
White water footprint: valuable subdivision in water footprint	9
Sudan’s internal hesitance over the GERD: policy, polarization, and national strategy	9
Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector	9
Faecal contamination on lettuce irrigated with different water sources in Maputo, Mozambique	8
Water International Best Paper 2023 Awards	8
Does data lead to cooperation? Lessons from Water Accounting Plus in the Cauvery basin, India	8

Assessing water management through decentralization: state–region issues in the Ebro Basin (Spain)	8
Understanding institutional changes in irrigation management: a comparative case study of two communities in the Venezuelan Andes	8
Editors’ introduction	7
The Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture: Environment and Development: Urgent Need for a Water Perspective	7
Participatory analysis of water-related conflict risks in complex adaptive systems – the case of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali	7
So near, yet so far: an Egyptian perspective on the US-facilitated negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam	7
Critical success factors for sustainably establishing localized groundwater supply systems	7
How does a master plan contribute to strengthening transboundary water management? A case study in West Africa	7
Water environment governance under the Central Environmental Protection Inspection mechanism: a collaborative governance strategy from a multi-agent perspective	6
Editors’ introduction	6
Governance and management of large US river basins in diverse regions under a federal government model	6
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure in public water enterprises in Andalusia, Spain	6
Water reuse blueprint: from waste to resource	6
Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis	6
Climate change impacts on water resources and adaptive water policy: case studies in the east monsoon area of China	6
Building bridges to achieve SDG 6 and integrated water resources management: an assessment of stakeholder integration in the Saiss region, Morocco	6
A thriving Murray–Darling Basin in 50 years: actions in the face of climate change	6
Basin-wide knowledge exchange for the sustainable management of the Colorado River	6
Climate change is increasing global salt pollution	6
Sanctioned discourse and the power of hegemonic imaginings	6
The current legal framework for pollution control in the Niger River Basin relative to SDG 6.3	6
‘We were displaced several times since 1956’: the Tonga– Goba involuntary resettlement experiences at the Kariba Dam	6
Clearing the waters: a review of transboundary water quality governance	5
The sanitation triangle: socio-culture, health and materials	5
Editors’ introduction	5
Water, conflict, and peace: a decade of developments	5
Challenges and prospects of reclaimed water reuse in Spanish agriculture	5
Community water governance for climate-resilient water security in Fiji	5
Africa’s water security in the twenty-first century	5
Virtual water, international relations and the new geopolitics of food	5
Water International Best Paper 2024 Awards	5
Special issues of Water International	5
The extraordinary drought provision and the future of the Rio Grande water deliveries under the 1944 US–Mexico water treaty: an exploratory policy analysis	5
Irrigated urban agriculture: a mixture of farming scales, water flows and actors in Nairobi, Kenya	5
Managed aquifer recharge in Mexico: proposals for an improved legal framework and public policies	5
Editors’ introduction	5
Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data	5
Mainstreaming climate adaptation in transboundary water governance: key success factors and lessons from global case studies	5
Model application for monitoring and locating leakages in rural area water pipeline networks	5
The 1992 UN Water Convention within an African context: a symbiotic relationship?	4
Beijing Declaration	4
Mixing waters: stakeholder influence in transboundary water conflict and cooperation	4
The role of the private sector in sustainable development	4
Transition of Vietnam’s water governance towards sustainability	4
Institutionalizing groundwater management and transboundary aquifer cooperation in sub-Saharan lake and river basin organizations	4
Halfway to 2075 continued: introduction to part 2 of the Water International 50th anniversary special issue	4
The IWRA Executive Board, 2025–2027	4
Prospects for restoration of Ukraine’s irrigation system	4
Water and complex problemsheds in Karamoja, Uganda	4
Different regulatory approaches to enhanced water protection in selected European jurisdictions	4

Governance attributes for building water resilience: a literature review	4
Addendum	4
The governance of water innovation: To quench a thirst	4
Ozymandias in the desert: irrigation in Saudi Arabia	4
A complex balance: assessing perspectives on decommissioning large dams to restore river ecosystems	4
Does bilateral trade in cereals within SADC reflect virtual trade in water between countries with different water endowments?	4
Gender and social inclusion in community water resource management: lessons from two districts in the Himalayan foothills and the Terai in Nepal	4
Identifying and estimating the social values of irrigation: a plea for being explicit	4
What is the role for multistakeholder platforms in transboundary basin governance? Distilling lessons from three cases and applying them in the Incomati Basin	4
International water law and hydropolitics: an enquiry into the water conflict between India and Nepal	4