Welcome to the fourth issue of New Water Policy and Practice Journal: A Platform for the World's Emerging Water Leaders and Thinkers. One of our main aims at New Water Policy and Practice Journal is to support emerging water leaders and thinkers to develop and share their ideas on how to address the varied challenges for water management around the world. In our first three issues we have already had papers from 14 different countries-Angola, Australia, Canada, China, Equador, India, Indonesia, Israel, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, Portugal, South Africa and the United States. In this fourth...

The world is not running out of water. As we learn in our early school years, the water cycle continues, with water changing state and location as it moves through the cycle and around the globe. However, we do have a very serious water management challenges. Water resources are unevenly spread around the world and access to water, even to meet basic human needs, is far from equitable. Some communities are challenged with too little water, resulting in drought, famine, and reduced development opportunities. Water scarcity affects more than 40% of the global population, with 633 million people...