OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Water Policy 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Drought response impacts on household water use practices in Cape Town, South Africa	29
Water management in Pakistan's Indus Basin: challenges and opportunities	24
Water governance challenges in rural South Africa: exploring institutional coordination in drought management	21
Towards government mechanisms of sponge city construction in China: insights from developed countries	19
Hydropower development along Teesta river basin: opportunities for cooperation	18
Status of springs in mountain watershed of western Nepal	18
Irrigation water pricing policies and water resources management	17
Calculation of optimal tax rate of water resources and analysis of social welfare based on CGE model: a case study in Hebei Province, China	16
Understanding household water-use behaviour in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa	16
Impact of legislation on olive mill wastewater management: Jordan as a case study	15
Evaluating two GIS-based semi-distributed hydrological models in the Bhagirathi-Alkhnanda River catchment in India	14
Practices of groundwater over-exploitation control in Hebei Province	13
Evaluation and prediction of water resources carrying capacity in Jiangsu Province, China	12
Water accounting for water management at the river basin scale in India: approaches and gaps	12
River chief system: an institutional analysis to address watershed governance in China	12
Willingness to pay for improved safe drinking water in a coastal urban area in Bangladesh	12
Water demand prospects for irrigation in the São Francisco River: Brazilian public policy	12
Multi-objective optimal allocation of water resources based on ‘three red lines’ in Qinzhou, China	12
Rivers as political borders: a new subnational geospatial dataset	12
Upstream-downstream linkages in Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin: the hydro-social imperatives	11
How is water security conceptualized and practiced for rural livelihoods in the global South? A systematic scoping review	11
Production and scale efficiency of South African water utilities: the case of water boards	11
Impact of socio-economic and water access conditions on life satisfaction of rural farmers in Faisalabad district of Pakistan	11
Why prepaid technologies are not a panacea for inclusive and sustainable rural water services in Tanzania?	11
Evolution of Japan's flood control planning and policy in response to climate change risks and social changes	10

Exploring the important determinants of access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation in Punjab, Pakistan	10
Groundwater development, use, and its quality in Korea: tasks for sustainable use	10
Climate change and water supply: governance and adaptation planning in Florida	10
Modelling impact of future climate and land use land cover on flood vulnerability for policy support – Hyderabad, India	9
Water pricing and affordability in the US: public vs. private ownership	9
Two-level games on the trans-boundary river Indus: obstacles to cooperation	9
Domestic water improvement behaviour: the probability determinants and policy implications	9
The potential for adaptive water governance on the US–Mexico border: application of the OECD's water governance indicators to the Rio Grande/Bravo basin	9
A review on water governance in Sri Lanka: the lessons learnt for future water policy formulation	9
Decreasing water resources in Southeastern U.S. as observed by the GRACE satellites	9
Climate-water governance: a systematic analysis of the water sector resilience and adaptation to combat climate change in Pakistan	8
Analysis of water resource management in tourism in China using a coupling degree model	8
Analysis of public policies and programmes towards water security in post-apartheid South Africa	8
Does development reduce damage risk from climate extremes? Empirical evidence for floods in India	8
Water resource R&D efficiency in Korea – toward sustainable integrated water resources management	8
Social change innovations, citizen science, miniSASS and the SDGs	8
Toward sustainable water resources management: critical assessment on the implementation of integrated water resources management and water–energy–food nexus in Afghanistan	8
Comprehensive evaluation of the water environment carrying capacity of a river basin: a case study of the Weihe River Basin in China	8
Research on water resources pricing model under the water resources–economic high-quality development coupling system: a case study of Hubei Province, China	8
Improving flood and drought management in agricultural river basins: an application to the Mun River Basin in Thailand	8
Study on the spatial distribution of water resource value in the agricultural system of the Yellow River Basin	7
Selection of best stormwater management alternative based on storm control measures (SCM) efficiency indices	7
Current and future transboundary water cooperation over the YarlungZangbo/Brahmaputra River basin: from an interdisciplinary perspective	7
A review of the removal of heavy metal ions in wastewater by modified montmorillonite	7
Calculation of water environmental capacity of large shallow lakes – a case study of Taihu Lake	7
A diagnostic dashboard to evaluate country water security	7
Monitoring the human right to water in California: development and implementation of a framework and data tool	7
Water rights trading: a new approach to dealing with trans-boundary water conflicts in river basins	7
Risk assessment of Cretaceous water inrush in the Ordos Basin based on the FAHP-EM	7
The effectiveness of a water resource tax policy in improving water-use efficiency: a quasi-natural experiment-based approach	6
Flood vulnerability assessment using data envelopment analysis – the case of Narmada river basin districts in central India	6
Energy audit in water supply systems: a proposal of integrated approach towards energy efficiency	6
Environmental politics and policy adaptation in China: the case of water sector reform	6
Review of hydro-economic models (HEMs) which focus on transboundary river water sharing disputes	6
Performance of community-based water-saving technology under land fragmentation: evidence from groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain	6
System dynamics simulation for the coordinative development of socio-economy and environment in the Weihe River Basin, China	6
The physical-chemical characteristics of surface waters in the management of quality in clearwater rivers in the Brazilian Amazon	6
Evaluating the policy of listening to customer claims in a drinking water utility using fuzzy-AHP approach and WASPAS method	6
Understanding water institutions and their impact on the performance of the water sector in India	6
Assessment of medium and small river health based on macroinvertebrates habitat suitability curves: a case study in a tributary of Yangtze River, China	6
Will China's water resources be safe in 2030?	6
Analysis of the influence of the water balance process on the change of landscape patterns in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River	6
Drops in the city: the puzzle of water privatization and consumption deficiencies in urban Ghana	5
Irrigation water demand management with emphasis on pricing policy	5
A review of the design and implementation of Ghana's National Water Policy (2007)	5
Water prices: persistence, mean reversion and trends	5
The African Water Vision 2025: its influence on water governance in the development of Africa's water sector, with an emphasis on rural communities in Kenya: a review	5
Stormwater utility fees and household affordability of urban water services	5
Water loss in swimming pool filter backwashing processes in the Balearic Islands (Spain)	5
Water and sanitation services in India and Ghana: an assessment of implications for rural health and related SDGs	5

The impact of the water commonweal propaganda on citizens' water-saving behavior: the intermediary role of propaganda channels and forms – evidence from China	5
Improving economic water productivity to enhance resilience in canal irrigation systems: a pilot study of the Sina irrigation system in Maharashtra, India	5
Integrated water management recommendations in practice: coexistence of old and new ways in Arizona	5
Exploring the socioeconomic determinants of water security in developing regions	5
Determinants of farm-level adaptation strategies to flood: insights from a farm household-level survey in coastal districts of Odisha	5
Emergy evaluation of human health losses for water environmental pollution	5
Need to educate farmers about the benefits of using treated wastewater for agriculture	5
Investigation and evaluation of water literacy of urban residents in China based on data correction method	5
Caught in the middle? Access to water in the rural to urban transformation of Bushenyi-Ishaka municipality, Uganda	5
Increasing production efficiency of irrigation systems through stakeholder participation	5
Study on the influence of infiltration on flood propagation with different peak shape coefficients and duration	5
A novel framework for planning policy and responsible stakeholders in industrial wastewater reuse projects: a case study in Iran	5
Efficient water management: an analysis for the agricultural sector	5
‘Overuse-charge’ agricultural water price mechanism in groundwater overdraft areas	5
Policies and incentives for developing universal access to water and sanitation for vulnerable families	4
Reducing water withdrawals: the negotiation and implementation of environmental policy in the Durance River Basin, France	4
On the need for streamflow drought frequency guidelines in the U.S.	4
Remunicipalisation of water services in Europe. Comparative study of the Neapolitan and Parisian cases	4
Power relations in the co-creation of water policy in Bolivia: beyond the tyranny of participation	4
Efficacy of influencing factors in the decision-making of irrigation water pricing: a review	4
Water policy and regional economic development: evidence from Henan province, China	4
Socio-political processes must be emphasised alongside climate change and urbanisation as key drivers of urban water insecurity	4
Simulation of flood hazard, prioritization of critical sub-catchments, and resilience study in an urban setting using PCSWMM: a case study	4
Nepal–India water cooperation: consequences of mutuality or hegemony?	4
Quantity not quality: promoting sustainable wastewater practices in Jordan	4
A legal obligation to adapt transboundary water agreements to climate change?	4
Water-related infrastructure investments in a changing environment: a perspective from the World Bank	4
Irrigation water tariffs: lessons for Portugal	4
Pricing of grid electricity of reservoir power plants based on quantification of the values of positive externality factors	4
Application of the watershed sustainability index in the Piranhas-Açu watershed	4
US Flood risk management in changing times	4
Capacity development for the Bangladesh Delta Plan from the perspective of delta professionals: A qualitative study	4
Hydrological and water balance studies to evaluate options for climate resilience in smallholder irrigation systems in Sri Lanka	4
Need to adopt scaled decentralized systems in the water infrastructure to achieve sustainability and build resilience	4
Legal pluralism and unofficial law in Lebanon: evolution and sustainable development of water	4
Institutional arrangements for water reuse: assessing challenges for the transition to water circularity	4
Optimization of urban resources efficiency in the domain of water–energy–food nexus through integrated modeling: a case study of Addis Ababa city	4
Tariff structuring in water and sanitation: public profiting arrangements on universalization initiatives	4
How Hercules cleans up the Augean stables: differentiated implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive	4
Decomposing drivers of changes in productive and domestic water use based on the logarithmic mean Divisia index method: a regional comparison in Northern China	4