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B Mar Satorras b is Urban Sustainability Researcher at the Institut Metròpoli, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain, and affiliated researcher at the Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA, IN3, UOC), Barcelona, Spain. We take the nomination of Best Paper and Honourable Mention very seriously, so the selection process is a bit elaborate. Both selections are on important institutional issues that have gained salience in the twenty-first century - how to reoperate reservoirs in a highly stressed basin to meet the challenges of climate change and competing demands, and how to finance the remunicipalization of urban water. [Extracted from the article]

The Best Paper and Honourable Mention awards for 2020 are both international collaborations, one comparing data exchange in transboundary waters, and the other comparing irrigation management transfer programs in four African countries. BEST PAPER AWARDEE B The devil's in the details: data exchange in transboundary waters b Patience Mukuyu, Jonathan Lautze, Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Davison Saruchera and Matthew McCartney I Water International i , 45:7-8, 884-900 doi 10.1080/02508060.2020.1850026 This extremely important and illuminating article develops and applies an assessment framework for data exchange to twenty-five transboundary river basins. We take the nomination of Best Paper and Honourable Mention very seriously, so the selection process is a bit elaborate. [Extracted from the article]

The article announces that "Cooperative filling approaches for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam" was given the Best Paper Award and "Desalination and water security in the US–Mexico border region: assessing the social, environmental and political impacts" was given the Honourable Mention Award.

We take the nomination of Best Paper and Honourable Mention very seriously, so the selection process is a bit elaborate. This article builds on the Ph.D. work at the University of South Australia of B Anna Robak b , who at time of writing was Director, Whole of Life Asset Management, at Opus International Consultants Limited, Fredericton, NB, Canada; she is now Director, Research & Innovation, WSP in Canada, also in Fredericton, and Adjunct Professor at the University of New Brunswick; B Henning Bjornlund b , an IWRA Fellow, is Research Professor in Water Policy and Management at the University of South Australia. B Christopher A. Scott b , an IWRA Fellow, was the Director of the Udall Center and Professor in the School of Geography, Development & Environment. [Extracted from the article]

An introduction to "The China Water Papers," which focuses on regional transboundary water concerns in Asia, particularly China, is presented.

The article announces winners of the Best Paper awards of "Water International" including a paper on polycentrism and pitfalls by Hans Komakech and Pieter van der Zaag and groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa by Karen G. Villholth.

The article provides information on the selection process of award for Water International Best Paper lists down the nominees including Mirja Kattelus, Matti Kummu, and Marko Keskinen.

The management of international watercourses requires both scientific input and transnational cooperation. This paper examines the role of science in the field of international water law and how scientific data, techniques, and methods may be used to bestow the legal framework with greater clarity and precision. In this regard, this paper demonstrates how the two primary obligations of international water law – the no-harm principle and the doctrine of equitable and reasonable utilization – are capable of conceptualization and application in a scientific manner. Examples of interdisciplinary approaches and expert commissions are utilized to demonstrate the role of science in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We are pleased to announce the I Water International i best paper and honourable mention awards for 2017. Using global data, this article examines the nexus of transboundary flood events and future social vulnerability. The article ends by highlighting transboundary basins that merit further investigation and possibly additional institution building to reduce urban flood risk. [Extracted from the article]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue including transboundary water regimes in China, sustainable water governance and eco-compensation schemes.

We take the nomination of Best Paper and Honourable Mention very seriously, so the selection process is a bit elaborate. The find that frequent refugee crises in Jordan have perpetuated reactive water governance that shapes the sector's resiliencies, vulnerabilities, and adaptation processes. BEST PAPER AWARDEE B "Hotel Middle East": social shocks and adaptation in Jordan's domestic water sector b Natasha Westheimer, Michael Gilmont and Troy Sternberg I Water International i , 44.4, 444-462 doi 10.1080/02508060.2019.1622277 This timely, interesting well-written and highly citable article uses an innovative research approach to investigate the Syrian refugee crisis in water-scarce Jordan. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on the Water International Best Paper Awards. It mentions that a short list of candidate papers is prepared by the editors of "Water International" and examined by the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) publications committee. It highlights the 2012 Best Paper Awardee "Virtual water hegemony: the role of agribusiness in global water governance" by Suvi Sojamo, Martin Keulertz, Jeroen Warner, and John Anthony Allan.

The papers presented in this special issue advance debate and critical assessment of the state's role in water provision. They draw striking comparisons that reveal how common patterns of discursive, social, and institutional power are mobilized during water crises to advance policies of state-centred regional water securitization rather than address water insecurity challenges at community or local scales. We organize the diverse papers in this issue around three main themes: water insecurity and state; crises and water insecurity, and challenges of non-state actors in securing water. [Extracted from the article]

The article announces the journal's 2014 Best Paper Award to the article "The cycles and spirals of justice in water-allocation decision making" by Marian J. Neal.

This paper examines the shift in international water law from traditional nation-state governance to embracing hydrological units such as watersheds through the lens of scalar politics. It scrutinizes how the United Nations Water Conventions, by advocating various legal principles such as equity and no harm, have triggered rescaling in transboundary water governance globally. Through an extensive survey of legal documents, this paper further uncovers diverse scalar reconfigurations that permeate bilateral, multilateral and regional water treaties and interface with existing social, political and legal structures across different regions, highlighting the multiplicity of rescaling processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a service regime perspective on irrigated agricultural practices and their governance in cities of the developing world. Findings of the governance of irrigated urban agriculture and adjacent practices in Arusha (Tanzania) and Khulna (Bangladesh) show how service regimes bridge the gap between (formal) governance institutions and practices around irrigated urban agriculture. They cross-cut the different institutional layers in urban society and boundaries between agricultural and urban water systems. By acknowledging, facilitating and aligning service regimes, scholars and practitioners can strengthen governance arrangements for enhancing irrigated urban agriculture while safeguarding water quality and food safety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By utilizing a socioeconomic framework, this paper contributes to the water stress literature. Employing the instrumental variable quantile regression model on 81 countries from 2000 to 2019, our findings reveal financial development can alleviate high levels of water stress. Good governance consistently reduces water stress but human development exacerbates water stress, indicating a conflicting relationship between improving human development and reducing water stress. The moderating effect of good governance reveals that when combined with human development, it can effectively reduce water stress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses papers which have been awarded with the Best Paper 2011 Awards by the journal. Awarded papers include "Producing more food with less water in a changing world: assessment of water productivity in 10 major river basins," by Xueliang Cai and colleagues; "Managing buried treasure across frontiers: the international Law of Transboundary Aquifers," by Gabriel E. Eckstein, and "Hydrosolidarity and beyond: can ethics and equity find a place in today's water resource management?"

The article announces awards in best papers written on water resources given by the International Water Resources Association. Ximing Cai and Mark W. Rosegrant were awarded the Volume 27 winning paper for "Global Water Demand and Supply Projections." Salman M.A. Salman won the Volume 28 winning paper for "From Marrakesh Through The Hague to Kyoto: Has The Global Debate on Water Reached a Dead End?" Vladimir Smakhtin, Carmen Revenga and Petra Döll were awarded the Volume 29 winning paper for "A Pilot Global Assessment of Environmental Water Requirements and Scarcity."

Despite widespread recognition of the importance of data exchange in transboundary waters' management, there is growing evidence that data exchange is falling short in practice. A possible explanation may be that data exchange occurs where and when it is needed. Needs for data exchange in shared waters, nonetheless, have not been systematically assessed. This paper evaluates data exchange needs in a set of transboundary basins and compares such needs with evidenced levels of data exchange. Our findings indicate that it may be possible to accelerate data exchange by identifying and promoting the exchange of data that respond to palpable need and serve practical use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores whether the sponge city construction implemented in China can restore the hydrological condition of the river basins through runoff depth. The annual runoff depth was calculated based on the volume capture ratio of annual rainfall (VCRAR) and compared with undeveloped and before sponge city construction. The results conclude as follows: the current rainwater source control standard benefits the hydrology recovery in China. But the difference between before sponge city construction and undeveloped is large in 12.9% of the regions. The adjustment recommendations of the VCRAR proposed in this paper are favourable to restoring the river basin hydrology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite an open border, shared culture, religious ties and strong people-to-people connectivity, governance of transboundary water resources has often led to diplomatic conflicts between India and Nepal. It is not unusual for hydro-development projects between the two to run into delays or opposition, despite great domestic need for water and electricity in both countries. Using fieldwork in Delhi and Kathmandu, this paper illustrates the factors that impede cooperation between the two sides on shared rivers and how the inadequacies of international water laws manifest themselves in bilateral negotiations on water governance. The paper locates the benefit-sharing framework in international water law using the case studies of the Pancheshwar and the SaptaKoshi–SunKoshi Project in the Mahakali and Koshi basins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]