Water International

2013 - 2025

Current editor(s): James Nickum, Philippus Wester, Remy Kinna, Xueliang Cai, Yoram Eckstein, Naho Mirumachi and Cecilia Tortajada

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Volume 50, issue 7, 2025

Editors’ introduction pp. 677-679

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Scarcity, structures and scoundrels: water-related conflicts in northern Kenya pp. 680-702

Kennedy Mkutu, David M. Anderson, Klerkson Lugusa, Evelyne Atieno Owino and Tessa Mkutu Agade

Assessing the adoption of agricultural innovation platform-initiated innovations at irrigation schemes in rural Zimbabwe pp. 703-729

Xolile Ncube, Jamie Pittock and Martin Moyo

Integrating waters, bridging boundaries: a comprehensive review of Transboundary Mega-Basin Management for sustainable and equitable water governance pp. 730-745

Mohammad Mojibul Hoque Mozumder, Petra Schneider and Dibash Deb

What is the role for multistakeholder platforms in transboundary basin governance? Distilling lessons from three cases and applying them in the Incomati Basin pp. 746-770

Ryan Nehring, Jonathan Lautze and Maliviwe Mgudlwa

From turnkey to partnership: project-based water diplomacy in the Lancang–Mekong Basin pp. 771-798

Chenxi Li, Guoqing Wang and Liushan Tang

More than chair circles? A qualitative systematic review of serious games related to water governance and their potential effects on policy design pp. 799-822

Simon Brauner, Janina Moschner, Anja Brumme and Fabian Hölzlberger

Volume 50, issue 6, 2025

Editors’ introduction pp. 509-512

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Editors’ introduction to the IWRA mentored articles section pp. 513-513

David Molden and Regina M. Buono

Challenges and prospects of reclaimed water reuse in Spanish agriculture pp. 514-534

Cintya Villacorta-Ranera, Gabriel Eckstein and Irene Blanco-Gutiérrez

The negotiations around the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD): a Sudanese perspective pp. 535-559

Yasir A. Mohamed and Seifeldin H. Abdalla

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 reserves pp. 560-582

Nazzareno Diodato, Fausto Tomei and Gianni Bellocchi

Water privatization in Brazil: is the private sector making the same mistakes as in the past? pp. 583-603

Thalita Salgado Fagundes and Rui Cunha Marques

Courts, rights of rivers and the city: insights from Ecuador pp. 604-621

Andres Martinez-Moscoso and Mildred E. Warner

Transition of Vietnam’s water governance towards sustainability pp. 622-646

Seungho Lee, Chung-Soo Kim and Cho-Rong Kim

Water environment governance under the Central Environmental Protection Inspection mechanism: a collaborative governance strategy from a multi-agent perspective pp. 647-675

Yanan Zhao, Lili Zhang and Siyao Li

Volume 50, issue 5, 2025

Celebrating 50 years of Water International – a legacy of leadership, knowledge, and impact pp. 353-354

Yuanyuan Li

Halfway to 2075: introduction to part 1 of the Water International 50th anniversary special issue pp. 355-360

James E. Nickum

Fifty years of excellence in water resources research: insights from the most cited articles per decade published in Water International pp. 361-373

Philippus Wester, Bassel Daher, Ximing Cai, James E. Nickum, Pedi Obani and Raya Marina Stephan

Water security: resource access and risk resilience under climate extremes and political uncertainty pp. 374-380

Christopher A. Scott

Revisiting water insecurity and the state pp. 381-389

Wendy Jepson, Justin Stoler, Patrick Thomson and Amber Wutich

Towards governance of private land for flood risk management in Europe pp. 390-396

Thomas Hartmann

Downscaling SDG6 (clean water and sanitation) to decision relevant scales pp. 397-415

Ximing Cai, Alcigeimes B. Celeste, Erhu Du, Timothy Foster, Rabi H. Mohtar, Claudia Ringler, Dahlia Sabri, Paul Satur, Riddhi Singh and Raya M. Stephan

The future of public water is public banks pp. 416-425

Thomas Marois, David McDonald and Susan Spronk

Hydrosocial territories: imaginaries, materialities, and struggles over knowledge, order and meaning pp. 426-462

Rutgerd Boelens, Lena Hommes, Jaime Hoogesteger, Erik Swyngedouw, Jeroen Vos and Philippus Wester

Back to the future? Resurgence of the Harmon Doctrine in the shadow of diminishing cooperation across transboundary watercourses – international water law under threat? pp. 463-474

Patricia K. Wouters and A. Dan Tarlock

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin 10 years on: are we any further forward? pp. 475-488

Zeray Yihdego, Alistair Rieu-Clarke and Ana Elisa Cascão

Catalysing transformation in agricultural water management in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from a decade of learning and an agenda for future research pp. 489-503

Karen Parry, Henning Bjornlund, Andre van Rooyen, Martin Moyo, Makarius Mdemu and Jamie Pittock

Water International Best Paper 2024 Awards pp. 504-507

The Editors

Volume 50, issue 3-4, 2025

Addendum pp. e1-e1

The Editors

Unravelling the multiple entanglements of water and climate change pp. 189-196

Ineke Kalwij, Raya Marina Stephan, Mihretab G. Tedla and David Molden

Towards an enhancement of the climate change mitigation capacity of inland saline shallow lakes through hydrological regime and vegetation management: a modelling approach pp. 197-224

Alba Camacho-Santamans, Daniel Morant, Carlos Rochera, Antonio Picazo and Antonio Camacho

Exploring the dynamics of flood and drought hazards and adaptation strategies in the horn of Africa pp. 225-234

Mihretab G. Tedla, Younghyun Cho and Mohamed Rasmy

Four birds with one stone? opportunities and challenges in adopting solar irrigation for a sustainable water-energy-food nexus with carbon credits pp. 235-258

Praharsh M. Patel, Christopher A. Scott and Daniel Brent

Reversing deforestation in a time of changing climate: implications for water management pp. 259-265

Gauravjeet Singh, Mihretab G. Tedla and Oscar Alvarado

Quantifying ecosystem services from trees of an urban park in Amsterdam pp. 266-297

Oscar Alvarado

Climate change is increasing global salt pollution pp. 298-305

Malcolm J. Gander and Gauravjeet Singh

Climate change and the water quality threats posed by the emerging contaminants per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and microplastics pp. 306-328

Malcolm J. Gander

Where climate meets water in transboundary systems: breaking boundaries through law pp. 329-349

Imad Antoine Ibrahim and Paolo Davide Farah

Water International Best Paper 2023 Awards pp. 350-352

The Editors

Volume 50, issue 2, 2025

Editors’ introduction pp. 101-103

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Prospects for restoration of Ukraine’s irrigation system pp. 104-120

Mykhailo Romashchenko, Boris Faybishenko, Dmytro Onopriienko, Hennadii Hapich, Roman Novitskyi, David Dent, Roman Saidak, Serhii Usatyi and Hynek Roubik

Building bridges to achieve SDG 6 and integrated water resources management: an assessment of stakeholder integration in the Saiss region, Morocco pp. 121-142

Safae Ijlil, Ali Essahlaoui, Narjisse Essahlaoui, Eirini Skrimizea, Constanza Parra, El Mostafa Mili and Anton Van Rompaey

Water reuse blueprint: from waste to resource pp. 143-153

Rania Bou Said, Rabi Mohtar, Sandra Yanni, Farah Kamaleddine and Lena Abou Jaoude

Social acceptance of greywater reuse in water scarce urban areas pp. 154-170

Macarena Miguel-Ebensperger and David Sauri

The extraordinary drought provision and the future of the Rio Grande water deliveries under the 1944 US–Mexico water treaty: an exploratory policy analysis pp. 171-188

Rosario Sanchez, Stephen P. Mumme and Gabriel Eckstein

Volume 50, issue 1, 2025

Editors’ introduction pp. 1-3

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Empowering global water governance: taking the 2023 UN Water Conference outcomes forward to address the current water crises pp. 4-10

Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Annabelle Houdret, Ines Dombrowsky, Johannes Cullmann, Aditi Mukherji, Olcay Unver and Robert Varady

A reply to Lankford and Agol (2024). Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis pp. 11-21

Johan Rockström and Jennie Barron

Executive branch responses to judicial resolutions regarding the human right to water and sanitation in Latin America pp. 22-47

Daniel González, Antonio Cáñez-Cota and Carlos Aguilar

Assessing the value of third parties in transboundary water governance: a constructivist institutionalism perspective on the Incomati River Basin pp. 48-69

Thobekile Zikhali-Nyoni

Transboundary water governance challenges in the Mahakali River basin: a view from Nepal and way forward pp. 70-100

Keshari Tiwari, Ramesh Raj Pant and Deep Narayan Shah