Special Issue of Water Journal to Address WRRC Conference Theme
Santa Cruz River, Amado, AZ – WRRC 2023 Photo Contest
John Vanveld Huizen
The journal Water has issued a Call for Papers for a Special Issue titled Working Across Borders to Address Water Scarcity, which echoes the theme of the WRRC 2025 Annual Conference, Shared Borders, Shared Waters: Working Together in Times of Scarcity. The Special Issue will include papers that present research and analyses related to collaborating across borders, broadly construed, in water-scarce situations. Around the globe, there is a need to address current and/or projected imbalance between water supply and demand, where working across borders is required. Borders include those shared between nation-states, jurisdictions within nations, including Indigenous nations/communities, cities and surrounding rural communities, etc. Collaborations may involve water sharing, treatment, storage, infrastructure, conveyance, conservation programs, capacity building, and more. Papers focused on mechanisms and agreements governing collaboration are welcome, as are papers that evaluate less-than-successful examples of working across borders to address water scarcity. The guest editors for this Special Issue are WRRC Director Sharon B. Megdal and Dr. Rosario Sanchez, Senior Research Scientist for the Texas Water Resources Institute at Texas A&M University, College Station. The deadline for manuscript submissions is January 31, 2026, and submissions are encouraged from all disciplines. In addition to academically based authors, submissions from individuals based in the public and private for-profit and not-for-profit sectors are encouraged. Those interested in submitting an article should send their working title and a few-sentence abstract to Sharon Megdal at smegdal@arizona.edu.