The journal publishes papers of international significance relating to the science, economics, and policy of agricultural water management. In all cases, manuscripts must address implications and provide insight regarding agricultural water management.

The primary topics that we consider are the following:
• Farm-level and regional water management
• Crop water relations, crop yields and water productivity
• Irrigation, drainage, and salinity in cultivated areas
• Salinity management and strategies for improving the use of saline water in agriculture
• Rainwater harvesting and crop water management in rainfed areas
• Use of wastewater and other low quality waters in agriculture
• Groundwater management in agriculture and conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water
• Implications of groundwater and surface water management on nutrient cycling
• Exploitation and protection of agricultural water resources.

Additional topics of interest include interactions between agricultural water management and the environment (flooding, soil erosion, nutrient loss and depletion, non-point source pollution, water quality, desertification, and the potential implications of global climate change for agricultural water management), and the institutional and regulatory aspects of agricultural water management (water pricing, allocation and competition).

Papers in these categories must draw direct and practical linkages to agricultural water management. Manuscripts drawing generalised conclusions, such as that competition for water will increase in future, or that less water will be available for agriculture, are unlikely to be considered.

Also, manuscripts describing basic soil-water-plant relationships, basic engineering and hydrology, or methods of estimating evapotranspiration will be considered only if the discussion is relevant to the active management of water in agriculture and the information enhances international literature.

Original papers
Reviews
A Short Communication
Letter to the Editor

Editors
B. Clothier
New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand Email B. Clothier
J.E. Fernandez
Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain Email J.E. Fernandez
N. Jovanovic
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Natural Resources and the Environment, Pretoria, South Africa Email N. Jovanovic
X. Zhang
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Shijiazhuang, China Email X. Zhang
Associate Editors
F. Alcón
Polytechnic University of Cartagena Department of Economics, Murcia, Spain
X. Cai
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands
S. Consoli
University of Catania, Catania, Italy
X. Mao
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
P.S. Minhas
Indian Council of Agricultural Research Natural Resource Management Division, New Delhi, India
O. Mounzer
Center for Research in Applied Chemistry, Saltillo, Mexico
P. Searles
Scientific Investigation and Technological Transfer Regional Centre, La Rioja, Argentina
L. Sebastiani
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
R. Singh
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
M. Todorovic
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Valenzano, Italy
L. Zotarelli
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Editorial Advisory Board
W. Bastiaanssen
eLEAF, Wageningen, Netherlands
E. Bautista
USDA-ARS Arid Land Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, Arizona, United States
M.H. Behboudian
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
J. Ben-Asher
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
A. Ben-Gal
Gilat Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Agricultural Research, Rishon Letsiyon, Israel
H. Bjornlund
University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
K.L. Bristow
CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, North Ryde, Australia
B.S. Das
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
B. Davidson
The University of Melbourne Asialink, Parkville, Australia
W. Dawes
CSIRO Land and Water Floreat, Floreat, Australia
W. Dierickx
Research Institute for Agriculture Fisheries and Food Research, Merelbeke, Belgium
C. Duwig
Institute for Geosciences and Environmental Research, St Martin d'Heres, France
S. Er-Raki
Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
S.R. Evett
USDA-ARS Conservation and Production Research Laboratory, Bushland, Texas, United States
R. Faulkner
University of New England, Armidale, Australia
D. Isidoro
Aragon Agrifood Research and Technology Center Unit of Soil and Irrigation, Zaragoza, Spain
M.B. Kirkham
Kansas State University Department of Agronomy, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
Y. Li
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
S. Lovelli
University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
L. Mateos
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Cordoba, Spain
F. Moreno
Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
J.D. Oster
University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States
L. Pereira
University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Agronomy, Lisboa, Portugal
C.J. Perry
M. Qadir
United Nations University Institute for Water Environment and Health, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
P. Raats
Roden, Netherlands
G. Rana
CREA Research Centre of Agriculture and Environment Bari, Bari, Italy
H. Ritzema
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
N. Romano
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Y. Rouphael
University of Napoli Federico II Department of Agriculture, Portici, Italy
D. Savvas
Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
K. Shaozhong
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
P. Slavich
Wollongbar Primary Industries Institute, Wollongbar, New South Wales, Australia
S. Speelman
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
U. Surendran
Centre for Water Resources Development and Management, Kerala, India
J.M. Tarjuelo Martín-Benito
University of Castilla La Mancha School of Agricultural Engineers of Albacete, Albacete, Spain
R. Tognetti
University of Molise Department of Bioscience and Territory, Campobasso, Italy
J. Tolk
USDA-ARS Conservation and Production Research Laboratory, Bushland, Texas, United States
M. Vanclooster
Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
I. Wesström
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
P. Widmoser
Erlenbach, Switzerland
Th. Wöhling
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
A. Yazar
Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey
J.A. Zegbe-Dominguez
National Research Institute for Forestry Agriculture and Livestock Experimental Field Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico