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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Governing water insecurity: navigating indigenous water rights and regulatory politics in settler colonial states	42
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	28
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam and its consequences	26
A review on implementing managed aquifer recharge in the Middle East and North Africa region: methods, progress and challenges	26
COVID-19 ‘free water’ initiatives in the Global South: what does the Ghanaian case mean for equitable and sustainable water services?	20
Autogestiónand water sharing networks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María	18
Water: consumption, usage patterns, and residential infrastructure. A comparative analysis of three regions in the Lima metropolitan area	18
Economy-wide assessment of potential long-term impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Sudan	17
Water research and nationalism in the post-truth era	16
Exploring water access in rural Kenya: narratives of social capital, gender inequalities and household water security in Kitui county	16
Integrating spatial and social characteristics in the DPSIR framework for the sustainable management of river basins: case study of the Katari River Basin, Bolivia	16
A source-to-sea approach to emerging pollutants in freshwater and oceans: pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea region	15
The devil’s in the details: data exchange in transboundary waters	14
‘We were displaced several times since 1956’: the Tonga– Goba involuntary resettlement experiences at the Kariba Dam	13
Unpacking wastewater reuse arrangements through a new framework: insights from the analysis of Egypt	11
Lesson learning in the Colorado River Basin	11
A methodology to identify vulnerable transboundary aquifer hotspots for multi-scale groundwater management	11
Drip irrigation as a socio-technical configuration: policy design and technological choice in Western India	10
Advancing urban water security: The urbanization of water–society relations and entry–points for political engagement	9
Land reclamation projects in the Egyptian Western Desert: management of 1.5 million acres of groundwater irrigation	9
When the virtual water runs out: local and global responses to addressing unsustainable groundwater consumption	8
Environmental management in the Bohai and Baltic seas from a source-to-sea perspective: challenges and opportunities	8
A multifaceted quantitative index for sustainability assessment of groundwater management: application for aquifers around Iran	8
Rural water provision at the state-society interface in Latin America	8
The effect of policy incoherence on the emergence of groundwater-related subsidence phenomena: a case study from Iran	8

Community response to the provision of alternative water supplies: A focus on chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) in rural Sri Lanka	8
Water law and the response to COVID-19	7
Anticipating elite capture: the social devaluation of municipal tap water users in the Phoenix metropolitan area	7
Evaluating the effectiveness of land and water integrative practices for achieving water sustainability within the Colorado River Basin: perceptions and indicators	7
Livelihood security enhancement though innovative water management in dryland India	7
Achieving drinking water and sanitation related targets of SDG 6 at Shahidbug slum, Dhaka	7
A comparative analysis of urban and rural household water insecurity experiences during the 2011–17 drought in Ceará, Brazil	7
Mixing waters: stakeholder influence in transboundary water conflict and cooperation	6
Building foundations for source-to-sea management: the case of sediment management in the Lake Hawassa sub-basin of the Ethiopian Rift Valley	6
The practical challenges of achieving sustainable wetland agriculture in Nigeria’s Cross River basin	6
Contested baselines and transboundary water resources management, with illustrations from the Nile	6
Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference?	6
The practices and politics of irrigated urban agriculture	6
Untapping the sustainable water bank’s public financing for Dutch drinking water companies	5
Success and sustainability of nutrient pollution reduction in the Danube River Basin: recovery and future protection of the Black Sea Northwest shelf	5
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector	5
Mobilization of bias: learning from drought and flood crises in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Jakarta	5
A visualization tool for citizen-science marine debris big data	5
The implications of social and economic barriers to safe drinking water for municipal level policy in Ghana	5
Persisting narratives undermine potential water scarcity solutions for informal areas of Mexico City: the case of two settlements in Xochimilco	5
A critical review of the transboundary aquifers in South-Eastern Europe and new insights from the EU’s water framework directive implementation process	5
Climate change and the water quality threats posed by the emerging contaminants per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and microplastics	5
Water insecurity and patchwork adaptability in Bangalore’s low-income neighbourhoods	4
When the water runs dry: supporting adaptive governance in transboundary river basins	4
Binational reflections on pathways to groundwater security in the Mexico–United States borderlands	4
Changing the development paradigm in African agricultural water management to resolve water and food challenges	4
Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region	4
Agri-vector water: boosting rainfed agriculture with urban water allocation to support urban–rural linkages	4
Strategies for climate change adaptation: lessons learnt from long-term planning in the Netherlands and Bangladesh	4
Boldly boring: public banks and public water in the Nordic region	4
Lake Victoria water levels declining (2000-2006): the role of absent and uncertain data in a transboundary water controversy	4
Mismatches between policy planning and implementation on the actively living with flood approach in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	4
Sino-Kazakhstan transboundary water allocation cooperation study: analysis of willingness and policy implementation	4
Transparency, regional diversity, and capacity building: cornerstones for trust and engagement in good water governance	4
Advances in monitoring transboundary water cooperation? Reflecting on the development and implementation of SDG indicator 6.5.2	4
The water–man eristic dialectics for sustainable hydro-governance	4
Masculinity and smart water management: why we need a critical perspective	4
Ozymandias in the desert: irrigation in Saudi Arabia	4
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
Diffusion of small-scale pumped irrigation technologies and their association with farmer-led irrigation development in Malawi	3
Editors’ introduction to the IWRA Mentored Articles section	3
Systems approach and performance-based water resources management	3
Learning from the past to build the future governance of groundwater use in agriculture	3
The current legal framework for pollution control in the Niger River Basin relative to SDG 6.3	3
Irrigated agriculture: more than ‘big water’ and ‘accountants will [not] save the world’	3
The evolution of the modern dam conflict on the Snake River, USA	3
Water insecurity, water borrowing and psychosocial stress among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya	3
Can a ‘modern’ irrigation system and a traditional smallholder gravitational system coexist? A view from Marakwet, Kenya	3
Power plus: Tony Allan’s contributions to understanding transboundary water arrangements	3

Climate change is increasing global salt pollution	3
Do needs motivate the exchange of data in transboundary waters? Insights from Africa’s shared basins	3
Dam operation using satellite data and hydrological models: the case of Roseires dam and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Blue Nile River	3
Water consumption and economic growth: evidence for the environmental Kuznets curve	3
Layers of regulation in transboundary water governance: exploring the role of third states in the Lancang–Mekong	3
The future of piped water	3
Institutions for reoperating reservoirs in semi-arid regions facing climate change and competing societal water demands: insights from Colorado	3
Public banks and the remunicipalization of water services in Paris	3
The environment comes later: when and how environmental considerations are included in transboundary water agreements	3
Impact of land use and occupation on potential groundwater recharge in a Brazilian savannah watershed	3
So near, yet so far: an Egyptian perspective on the US-facilitated negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam	3
Public water without (public) financial mediation? Remunicipalizing water in Valladolid, Spain	3
Water wars, conflict and cooperation – how the virtual water concept helped change the discourse	3
The Information Strategy Model: a framework for developing a monitoring strategy for national policy making and SDG6 reporting	3