Volume 51, Issue 4 (2026) features cutting-edge and new research on transboundary waters and water governance
The latest issue of Water International, the IWRA’s official peer-reviewed journal, is now available for you to read.
Volume 51, Issue 4 (2026) explores the realities of transboundary water governance through a number of case studies from around the world, examining how countries navigate cooperation, negotiation, and governance in the context of shared water resources. In doing so, it provides insights into collective challenges and offers innovative solutions that can be applied worldwide. The issue offers also an insight on groundwater governance, and an innovative view for water governance in the perspective of water stress.
What’s inside?
This special issue explores the intersection of water security and law from multiple perspectives, including:
Transboundary Waters
This issue takes readers on a journey across river basins around the world. Articles include:
- Lessons from global case studies on integrating climate adaptation into transboundary water governance.
- Sudan’s evolving position on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and its implications for the Nile Basin.
- An analysis of Narendra Modi’s hydro-diplomacy in the Brahmaputra River Basin.
- How climate change and hydropower development are reshaping the Mekong River Basin and Tonle Sap Lake.
Water Governance: Groundwater
How effective have efforts to reduce arsenic exposure in Bangladesh’s drinking water supplies been? This issue reviews one of the world’s most significant groundwater challenges and assesses progress to date.
Water Governance
With levels of water stress rising worldwide, this paper examines the potential of personal water allowance trading as a demand-management tool, whilst at the same time considering its wider social, economic, and environmental implications.
Book Review
The edition closes with a review of The Sanitation Triangle: Socio-culture, Health and Materials, introducing the “Sanitation Triangle” concept. It outlines how deeper collaboration across engineering, public health, environmental science, and the humanities can help advance sanitation outcomes worldwide.
