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Water Research has an open access companion journal Water Research X, sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review.
Water Research publishes refereed, original research papers on all aspects of the science and technology of the anthropogenic water cycle, water quality, and its management worldwide. A broad outline of the journal's scope includes:
•Treatment processes for water and wastewaters (municipal, agricultural, industrial, and on-site treatment), including resource recovery and residuals management;
•Urban hydrology including sewer systems, stormwater management, and green infrastructure;
•Drinking water treatment and distribution;
•Potable and non-potable water reuse;
•Sanitation, public health, and risk assessment;
•Anaerobic digestion, solid and hazardous waste management, including source characterization and the effects and control of leachates and gaseous emissions;
•Contaminants (chemical, microbial, anthropogenic particles such as nanoparticles or microplastics) and related water quality sensing, monitoring, fate, and assessment;
•Anthropogenic impacts on inland, tidal, coastal and urban waters, focusing on surface and ground waters, and point and non-point sources of pollution;
•Environmental restoration, linked to surface water, groundwater and groundwater remediation;
•Analysis of the interfaces between sediments and water, and between water and atmosphere, focusing specifically on anthropogenic impacts;
•Mathematical modelling, systems analysis, machine learning, and beneficial use of big data related to the anthropogenic water cycle;
•Socio-economic, policy, and regulations studies.

Water Research is an interdisciplinary journal with an applied edge. This means that papers that go into too many details of one of the supporting disciplines (such as chemistry, toxicology, microbiology, material sciences, etc.) without making a good link with water research in general may be rejected up-front. More information on types of manuscripts that are not suitable for Water Research are discussed in an editorial available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2012.01.038.

Audience: Biologists, chemical engineers, chemists, civil engineers, environmental engineers, limnologists, and microbiologists.

Note that Water Research/Water Research X do not do pre-submission evaluations. Please carefully review the journal scope and previous issues of the journals to assess the fit of your manuscript. The handling editor will then evaluate suitability of your full manuscript.

Elsevier and IWA have also jointly launched two specialist titles which authors are welcome to submit to:
The open access Water Resources and Industry focuses on the role that industry plays in the exploitation, management and treatment of water resources.
Water Resources and Economics addresses the financial and economic dimensions associated with water resources use and governance.


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Editor-in-Chief
Professor Eberhard Morgenroth
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland Email Professor Eberhard Morgenroth
Editors
Professor Guang-Hao Chen
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Ana Deletic
UNSW Sydney Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Dr. David Dixon
The University of Melbourne Department of Chemical Engineering, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Professor Xiaodi Hao
Beijing Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Energy and Buildings, Beijing, China
Dr. Gregory Korshin
University of Washington Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, Washington, United States
Professor Mark van Loosdrecht
TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands
Professor Yoshihiko Matsui
Hokkaido University Faculty of Engineering Environmental Engineering, Sapporo, Japan
Dr. Ameet Pinto
Northeastern University Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Professor Maria Reis
New University of Lisbon Department of Chemistry, Caparica, Portugal
Dr. Hang-Sik Shin
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Dr. Thomas Ternes
German Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany
Prof. Dr. Zhiguo Yuan
University of Queensland, Advanced Water Management Centre, Queensland, Australia
Professor Julie Zilles
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, Illinois, United States
Associate Editors
Dr. Andy Baker
University of New South Wales Water Research Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Damien Batstone
University of Queensland Advanced Water Management Centre, St.Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Assoc. Professor Treavor H. Boyer
Arizona State University School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, Arizona, United States
Assoc. Professor Bin Cao, B.Eng., BUAA; Ph.D., NUS
Nanyang Technological University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Singapore, Singapore
Professor Yinguang Chen
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Shanghai, China
Dr. Rob Eldridge, (retired)
Professor Stephen Gray
Victoria University Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Assist. Prof. Damian Helbling
Cornell University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, New York, United States
Professor Michihiko Ike, PhD
Osaka University School of Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka, Japan
Dr. Peter Jarvis
Cranfield University Cranfield Water Science Institute, Bedford, United Kingdom
Assoc. Professor Seoktae (Steve) Kang
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology College of Engineering, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Professor David Kay, PhD
Aberystwyth University, Centre for Research into Environment and Health (CREH), United Kingdom
Professor Dong-Hoon Kim, PhD
Inha University, Department of Civil Engineering, Incheon, Korea, Republic of
Assoc. Professor Katsuki Kimura
Hokkaido University Faculty of Engineering Environmental Engineering, Sapporo, Japan
Prof. Dr. Susanne Lackner
Technical University of Darmstadt Institute IWAR, Darmstadt, Germany
Dr. Gunter Langergraber
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Wien, Austria
Dr. Qilin Li
Rice University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, Texas, United States
Professor Shang-Lien Lo
National Taiwan University Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan
Professor Hui Lu
Sun Yat-Sen University School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangzhou, China
Professor Jun Ma
Harbin Institute of Technology School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Haerbin, China
Professor Dionisis Mantzavinos
University of Patras Department of Chemical Engineering, Patras, Greece
Professor Armand Maul
Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Continental Environments, Metz, France
Assoc. Professor David McCarthy
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Dr. Peta Neale
Griffith University Australian Rivers Institute, Nathan, Australia
Dr. How Yong Ng
National University of Singapore Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Adrian Oehmen
New University of Lisbon Faculty of Science and Technology, Caparica, Portugal
Dr. Susan Richardson
University of South Carolina Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Dr. Miquel Salgot
University of Barcelona Faculty of Physics, Barcelona, Spain
Professor Masahiro Takahashi
Hokkaido University Graduate School of Engineering Division of Field Engineering for the Environment, Sapporo, Japan
Professor Satoshi Takizawa
The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering Faculty of Engineering Department of Urban Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Ed Topp
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Vayalam Venugopalan
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Water and Steam Chemistry Division, Kalpakkam, India
Dr. Stefan Wuertz
Nanyang Technological University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Singapore, Singapore
Assist. Prof. Yan Zhou
Nanyang Technological University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Singapore, Singapore