Water Policy
Last updated ISSN 1366-7017
Water Policy is published by UWA Publishing in engineering. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Water Policy concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water Systems and Optimization
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
Key facts
| Publisher | UWA Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1366-7017, 1996-9759 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 1,935 |
| Publishing since | 1996 |
| Journal website | iwaponline.com/wp |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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