Editorial—Jeff Camkin and Susana Neto

• Author: Susana Neto,Jeff Camkin
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/wwp2.12018
• Published date: 01 November 2019
• Date: 01 November 2019

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wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/wwp2 World Water Policy. 2019;5:90–92.

© 2019 Policy Studies Organization.

Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

DOI: 10.1002/wwp2.12018

EDITORIAL

Editorial—Jeff Camkin and Susana Neto

Welcome again to World Water Policy Journal. Long‐term readers of World Water Policy Journal,

many of whom have been with us since we began as New Water Policy and Practice Journal in 2014,

will know that our focus is on supporting emerging water leaders and thinkers, with a clear emphasis

on publishing works from Master students, new PhDs, and Post‐Docs, and the ideas of others that are

new to working in water (Camkin and Neto, 2014).

In his Laudatory Greeting for our first issue in 2014, Prof Paul Rich, President of Policy Studies

Organization, Washington DC, noted the importance of water issues around the globe and postulated

that, sometimes, what might guide us is that rather than have the answers we may need to concentrate

on what are the right questions (Rich, 2014). And who is better positioned than our emerging water

leaders and thinkers—new Master students, PhDs, Post‐Docs, and people new to the world of water—

to rethink the questions themselves?

As far back as September 2015, in only our second issue, we began featuring student work with

the paper Water and Energy Nexus: Who and How to Persuade? Analysis of Strategies for Emerging

Leaders in Lao PDR to Achieve Integrated Urban Wastewater Management (Mixap, 2015), a Review

of the Role of Remote Sensing for Submarine Groundwater Discharge (Mukherjee, 2015), and Current

Practices of Animal Farming, Community Habits and Water Scarcity: A different Approach for the

Global Water Issues (Gallardo, 2015). Two out of these first three student papers were from par-

ticipants in the Master of Integrated Water Management at the International WaterCentre (IWC),

Brisbane, Australia.

Following this path of promoting the opportunity for innovation and new leadership thinking in

water, we invited the IWC to publish with World Water Policy a special feature on their student work

from 2018 to 2019. It is with great pleasure, therefore, that we consolidate that intention with a special

feature in this issue on student work from the IWC which aims to make a contribution by giving voice

to the innovative ideas and practices being developed, explored, and driven by emerging water leaders

at the IWC. Each paper represents a part of the water sector that the author feels passionate about trans-

forming, and which is offered within the IWC Master of Integrated Water Management that the authors

have recently completed—WASH and Development, Urban Water, and, Water, Land and People.

In this special feature, the IWC's Brian McIntosh (IWC Education Director) and John Kirkwood

(Master's Thesis Manager) introduce the students' work with the invited editorial piece: Connecting

the Dots: A showcase of Emerging Integrated Water Management Thinking and Practice. The IWC

acknowledges the need to transform the way that we collectively think about and act to address com-

plex sustainable development and water management challenges, and the importance of doing this by

cultivating and nurturing people, their ideas and their ability to act.

In the first article, Angela De Duonni's paper Defining the investment value of water entitlements

explores the intersectionality between the water title investment strategies of asset managers and the

water management strategies of resource managers, and considers the key question of whether clas-

sifying water entitlements as an ‘asset class’ could improve the distribution of costs and benefits

between private investors, water entitlement holders and regional communities.