Water Supply

Water Supply is published by IWA PUBLISHING. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Water resources management and optimization, Water Systems and Optimization and Water Treatment and Disinfection, together about 30% of its articles. Its main subfields are Water Science and Technology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Water Supply is an international peer-reviewed journal that focuses on all aspects of water supply, this allows us to focus not only on new scientific advances in this large subject area, but also gives us the opportunity to work on the technological aspects. This means that our readership is widespread throughout universities and within industry. For prospective authors, we offer expertise through our global editorial board and reviewer pool and strive to make sure that your experience with us is hassle free. We are looking to build our community and hope that you will want to be part of that. The scope of the journal falls within three distinct areas; Water Quality, Water Management and Design & Modelling. We will accept papers within the following areas: Water Quality/Water Treatment Biological treatment processes for water Physico-chemical treatment of water Decentralised biological and physico-chemical treatment of drinking water Disinfection Drinking water, recreational water quality Water pollutants, characteristics and effects Emergent and priority pollutants Microbiological, physical and chemical parameters for water quality Water quality and health Water quality in water distribution networks and storages Water safety in developing and emerging countries Water Management Asset management Climate change impacts on water supply Drought risk management Environmental education and communication for improving water management Groundwater management Integrated management of water resources Intermittent water supply Rainwater harvesting Real and apparent leakage management Reservoir and water storage management Smart water supply systems: Instrumentation, metering, controls and sensors Unconventional water sources and desalination Water management in ancient civilizations Water reuse and recycling Water security, including water safety plans Water supply and energy production Water supply for irrigation in agriculture Water supply in mega cities Water supply in specific climates (e.g. arid, semi-arid) Water utility management including economic and social aspects Water-energy-food nexus Design and Modelling Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning methods in water supply Cascading effects between water infrastructure systems Digitalisation of water distribution systems Experimental studies and modelling complex water supply infrastructures Modelling and analysis of water distribution systems, including transients Optimisation of water supply systems

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ScopusLetPub

Early warning / risk: Removed from SCIE for editorial reasons on 22 October 2024. CAS Early Warning Journal List: not listed in any of 6 editions.LetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

1.84LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

5.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

65OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,758OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.02OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Share of gold OA articles

97.32%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

330LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 17 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Peer review

Anonymous peer reviewLetPub

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

IWA PUBLISHING

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

ISSN

1606-9749

Electronic ISSN

1607-0798

Society / sponsor

International Water Association

Latest issue on the website

Volume 26, Issue 8 (August 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub