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 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

Volume 49, issue 8, 2024

Editors’ introduction pp. 927-928

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Critical success factors for sustainably establishing localized groundwater supply systems pp. 929-955

Gavin V. M. Kode, Thokozani Kanyerere and Kevin Pietersen

Adaptive governance and evolution of a groundwater-based resilient city: a case study of Kure City, Japan pp. 956-975

Takahiro Endo

Identifying and estimating the social values of irrigation: a plea for being explicit pp. 976-990

Petra Hellegers and Brian Davidson

Social cost–benefit analysis of natural treatment systems in India: implications for benefits model and governance pp. 991-1011

Indranil De and Vishal Tandel

The IWRA Executive Board, 2025–2027 pp. 1012-1012

The Editors

Volume 49, issue 7, 2024

Editors’ introduction pp. 817-818

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Remembering William ‘Bill’ Cosgrove (1932–2024) pp. 819-820

Leonore Tjikune and Lena Salame

Remembering Michael Campana (1948–2024) pp. 821-822

The Editors

Institutional fragmentation and smallholder irrigation performance: a case of Mkoba and Silalatshani Irrigation Schemes, Zimbabwe pp. 823-845

Josephine Mwafuka, Collin Mabiza, Saimon Madyiwa, Krasposy Kujinga and Tavengwa Chitata

White or blue water footprint? Components of water footprint model of crops pp. 846-848

Libor Ansorge

White water footprint: valuable subdivision in water footprint pp. 849-851

Ali Ashrafi, Hamed Ebrahimian, Taha Maarefi, Hossein Dehghanisanij and Mohammad Sharifi

Evidence of emotions and psychological defences in urban water-efficiency campaigns’ communications pp. 852-879

Hanna C. Ross, Devon M. Jones, Stephanie Shouldice, Chris Ling, Lauren Smith and Sarah E. Wolfe

Water Accounting Plus: limitations and opportunities for supporting integrated water resources management in the Middle East and North Africa pp. 880-907

Nafn Amdar, Marloes Mul, Jawad Al-Bakri, Stefan Uhlenbrook, Martine Rutten and Graham Jewitt

Water demand and usage trends among group water schemes: implication for water conservation in Ireland pp. 908-925

Sarpong Hammond Antwi, David Getty, Alec Rolston, Suzanne Linnane and Róisín Dowd Smith

Volume 49, issue 6, 2024

Editors’ introduction pp. 691-693

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Community water governance for climate-resilient water security in Fiji pp. 694-720

Quinton Hayre and Ellis Adjei Adams

The role of science in international water law pp. 721-737

Leon Karbic Warren

The impact of socioeconomic factors on water stress: insights from global analysis pp. 738-759

S. Owjimehr, M. Emami Meybodi and K. Asadian Falahieh

Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis pp. 760-781

Bruce A. Lankford and Dorice Agol

Groundwater use for urban water security in tropical Africa – operational situation and institutional perspectives pp. 782-791

Stephen Foster and Julia Gathu

Towards durable legal protections for rivers in Chile pp. 792-815

Pía Weber Salazar, Elizabeth Macpherson and Barbara A. Willaarts

Volume 49, issue 5, 2024

Editors’ introduction pp. 573-574

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Assessing water management through decentralization: state–region issues in the Ebro Basin (Spain) pp. 575-590

Albert Santasusagna Riu

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure in public water enterprises in Andalusia, Spain pp. 591-615

Domingo Martinez-Martinez, Javier Andrades Peña, Estibaliz Biedma López and Manuel Larrán Jorge

Comparing the impacts of different irrigation systems on the livelihoods of women and youth: evidence from clustered data in Ghana pp. 616-640

Pamela Giselle Katic

Tailored approaches of data collection for improved water system management in resource constrained contexts: lessons from Ethiopia pp. 641-663

Logan Cochrane, Melisew Dejene Lemma and Semeredin Yimer Ali

Maintaining status quo or realizing transformation in transboundary water conflicts? The power–interests–identity nexus in the Helmand river basin pp. 664-689

Seyedeh Zahra Ghoreishi, Hojjat Mianabadi, Jeroen Warner, Mohsen Nagheeby, Sumit Vij, Atefeh Parvaresh Rizi, Milad Jafari and Atefe ArfaFathollahkhani

Correction pp. 690-690

The Editors

Volume 49, issue 3-4, 2024

Lessons from the last 30 years for future water resource management in national and transboundary catchments pp. 255-266

Edouard Boinet, Eric Tardieu, Christophe Brachet and Alain Bernard

Introduction to section 1 pp. 267-273

James E. Nickum and Raya Marina Stephan

Reflections on transboundary water conflict and cooperation trends pp. 274-288

Alexandra Turgul, Melissa McCracken, Susanne Schmeier, Zoe H. Rosenblum, Lynette de Silva and Aaron T. Wolf

Scalar politics in international water law pp. 289-297

Heping Dang

Basin organization and members’ development agenda in the Global South pp. 298-309

Aline Telle

Water governance in the Mekong region: the role and impact of civil society organizations pp. 310-317

Andrea Haefner

Benefit-sharing dialogue to promote and guide investment decisions in the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi (SMM) transboundary basin, shared between Kenya and Uganda pp. 318-326

John P. Owino

Governance of the binational basin of the Bermejo and Grande de Tarija rivers between Argentina and Bolivia (1995–2019) pp. 327-334

Guillermina Elias

Governance and management of large US river basins in diverse regions under a federal government model pp. 335-345

Neil Grigg

Critical analysis of the river basin management system in South Korea since 2018 pp. 346-357

Seungho Lee

Expectations and reality of IWRM implementation across 30 years of water management in Poland pp. 358-368

Tomasz Walczykiewicz, Monika Bryła and Katarzyna Kraj

Local institutional adaptation to groundwater overexploitation challenges: case study from Copiapó aquifer, Chile pp. 369-376

Rodrigo Fuster, Cristian Escobar-Avaria, Katherinne Silva-Urrutia, Hilda Moya-Jofré and Ana Karina Palacios-Quezada

Introduction to section 2 pp. 377-391

Ximing Cai and Zihan Zheng

Integrating water charges policies and watershed plans for improved investment and financial sustainability in water resources management pp. 392-409

Guilherme Fernandes Marques, Rosa Maria Formiga-Johnsson, Patrick Laigneau, Ana Paula Dalcin, Stela Goldenstein, Iraúna Bonilha and Iporã Possantti

Provisioning of water ecosystem services in the Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya: can prospects of willingness to pay improve water quality and quantity? pp. 410-416

Burnice Karimi Ireri, Paul M. Makenzi, Stanley M. Makindi, Peter A. Minang and John M. Mironga

The Portuguese dams of the international Douro, climate change and adaptation strategies: perspectives within the framework of the Albufeira Convention and the Water Framework Directive pp. 417-428

Francisco Silva Costa and Hélder Silva Lopes

Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data pp. 429-438

Kat Hartwig, Paige Thurston, Hunter Smith, Martin Carver, Greg Utzig, Ryan MacDonald, Ashlee Jollymore and Nicole Trigg

Reduction of micropollutants in the Rhine catchment area – monitoring and assessment system pp. 439-445

Tabea Stötter, Nikola Livrozet and Friederike Vietoris

The ICPR measuring programme chemistry and its monitoring approach – a look back and a glimpse of the future pp. 446-454

Lars Duester, Nikola Livrozet, Sabrina Poturalski, Tabea Stoetter, Anna-Lena Gerloff and Marc Daniel Heintz

International Meuse Commission: 20 years of cooperation pp. 455-465

Jean-Noël Pansera

Introduction to section 3 pp. 466-475

Teodoro Estrela

Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers pp. 476-484

Mohamed Hassan Tawfik, Rasha Hassan, Raya Marina Stephan and Ahmed Rezk

Rethinking urban water management: a case study of vulnerability in the Kingston Basin pp. 485-494

Shaneica Lester

Take it as a compliment: integrating complementary measures as the next chapter of Murray–Darling Basin water management pp. 495-502

Christine Freak and Claire Miller

How does a master plan contribute to strengthening transboundary water management? A case study in West Africa pp. 503-516

Miléna Poncin, Andrew Ogilvie, Luc Descroix, Issam Chariag and Clément Balique

Integrated solutions to improve wastewater quality in Mendoza and Santiago River Basin pp. 517-531

F. Sebastián Riera, Victor Manuel Mijangos Pulido, Irma Livier De Regil Sánchez and Mara Hoffmeister

Up close and personal: an essential ingredient in transboundary water basin agreements pp. 532-539

Kathleen Rugel

Multistakeholder regional dialogues as catalysers for transboundary water cooperation pp. 540-552

Yumiko Yasuda, Yelysaveta Demydenko, Dimitris Faloutsos and Laurent-Charles Tremblay-Lévesque

Institutionalizing groundwater management and transboundary aquifer cooperation in sub-Saharan lake and river basin organizations pp. 553-562

Arnaud Sterckx, Christina Fraser, Kevin Pietersen and Moustapha Diene

A shared water culture between the European Union and the Countries of the Eastern Neighbourhood pp. 563-571

Alexander Belokurov, Chloé Déchelette, Matthew Griffiths, Guy Halpern, Philippe Seguin and Alexander Zinke

Volume 49, issue 2, 2024

The practices and politics of irrigated urban agriculture pp. 129-143

Gert Jan Veldwisch, Priyanie Amerasinghe, Sammy Letema and Matthijs T. Wessels

Irrigated urban agriculture: a mixture of farming scales, water flows and actors in Nairobi, Kenya pp. 144-163

Arcadius Martinien Agassin Ahogle and Sammy Letema

Technological solutions for harnessing the urban water potential in the Bengal Delta – a scenario planning approach pp. 164-184

Kamonashish Haldar, Katarzyna Kujawa-Roeleveld, Devon Dekkers, Dilip Kumar Datta and Huub Rijnaarts

Farming and the city: the changing imaginary of the city and Maputo’s irrigated urban agriculture from 1960 to 2020 pp. 185-200

Natalia Reyes Tejada, Michelle Kooy and Margreet Zwarteveen

Faecal contamination on lettuce irrigated with different water sources in Maputo, Mozambique pp. 201-218

C. A. Niquice-Janeiro, A. Marques Arsénio, G. Medema and J. B. van Lier

Agriculture and the ideals of urban modernity: the case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania pp. 219-237

Matthijs T. Wessels, Gert Jan Veldwisch, Bas J.M. van Vliet, Alphonce G. Kyessi and Shaaban M. Mgana

A tale of service regimes in irrigated urban agriculture: evidence from two cities in the Global South pp. 238-254

Bas J.M. van Vliet, Kamonashish Haldar, Matthijs T. Wessels, Katarzyna Kujawa-Roeleveld and Gert Jan Veldwisch

Volume 49, issue 1, 2024

Editors’ introduction pp. 1-2

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Malin Falkenmark, 1925–2023 pp. 3-10

The Editors

The Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture: Environment and Development: Urgent Need for a Water Perspective pp. 11-22

The Editors

Sanitation in a changing world: the need for a paradigm shift in the mindset of development agencies pp. 23-31

V. Subramanian Saravanan

Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas pp. 32-51

Frederico Poley Martins Ferreira and Gabriel Do Carmo Lacerda

Access to water and COVID-19: a regression discontinuity analysis for the peri-urban areas of metropolitan Lima, Peru pp. 52-79

Andrés Gómez-Lobo, Mauro Gutiérrez, Sandro Huamaní, Diego Marino, Tomas Serebrisky and Ben Solís

Water-food-energy nexus assessment for major agricultural crops and different irrigation methods of Lake Urmia basin, Iran pp. 80-103

Taha Maarefi, Ali Ashrafi, Hamed Ebrahimian, Hossein Dehghanisanij and Mohammad Sharifi

Participatory analysis of water-related conflict risks in complex adaptive systems – the case of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali pp. 104-127

Karen S. Meijer, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Euan Mackway-Jones, Luca Ferrini, Beteo Zongo, Mori Diallo, Ibrahima Sado Fofana and Karounga Keïta