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‘Where water flows, equality grows’

Observed each year on 22 March, UN World Water Day highlights the vital importance of fresh water and the urgent need to address the global water crisis. The 2026 theme, Water and Gender, draws attention to the unequal impacts of inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, which disproportionately affect women and girls and limit their health, safety, education and economic opportunities. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 — water and sanitation for all by 2030 — is therefore closely linked with advancing gender equality.

This Cambridge University Press collection brings together interdisciplinary research on water, with a focus on the gendered dimensions of water access, governance and use. Featuring journals, articles, and books, it highlights scholarship that advances understanding of inclusive and sustainable solutions to global water challenges.

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Cambridge Prisms: Water

Cambridge Prisms: Water publishes high-impact open access reviews and research across water and hydrological sciences, connecting science, technology, policy, and industry to advance solutions to global water challenges.

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Cambridge Materials: Water

Cambridge Materials: Water highlights advances in materials for purification, filtration, desalination, and water treatment within the Cambridge Materials portfolio addressing sustainability challenges.

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Featured Journal Articles

Article
Now, more than ever, it’s time to address the neglect of female genital schistosomiasis
Fiona M. Fleming, Ashley Preston, Anthony Kerkula Bettee, Norbert Dje, Victoria Gamba, Anouk Gouvras, Margaret Gyapong, Julie Jacobson, Christine Kalume, Karsor K. K. Kollie, Alain-Claver Kouamin, Alison Krentel, Elizabeth F. Long, Humphrey Deogratias Mazigo, Makia Christine Masong, Akinola Stephen Oluwole, Leora Pillay, Ibrahim Rabiu, Bodo S. Randrianasolo, Florence Wakesho, Yael Velleman
Parasitology, Volume 152, Issue 14

Article
Intersectional Victims as Agents of Change in International Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation
Angela Hefti
Transnational Environmental Law, Volume 13, Issue 3

Article
Disinfection resistance in wastewater influents: data gaps and One Health concept challenges
Uday Turaga, Siva Reddy Golamari, Clifford B Fedler
Environmental Conservation, Volume 53, Issue 1

Article
Reimagining stormwater management: sustainable drainage pathways for resilient Indian cities
Aamer Majid Bhat, Indra Mani Tripathi, Pranab Kumar Mohapatra, Chandrashekhar Bhagat
Environmental Conservation, Volume 53, Issue 1

Article
Water and survival in war: Upholding IHL’s protective purpose and documenting the hidden toll
David Kaelin, Caroline Pellaton, Tadesse Kebebew
International Review of the Red Cross, Volume 107, Issue 930

Article
A Contested Waterscape: The Public’s Diminished Participation in Ontario’s Water Management Planning Process
Patricia Hania, Rowan Brzezinski
Canadian Journal of Law & Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, Volume 40, Issue 2

Article
Review of systems thinking in rural WASH programming and research
Kate Neely, Nicholas Valcourt
Cambridge Prisms: Water, Volume 2

Article
The price and value of water: An economic review
Rupert Quentin Grafton, Ana Manero, Long Chu, Paul Wyrwoll
Cambridge Prisms: Water, Volume 1

Article
Progress in delivering SDG6: Safe water and sanitation
Jay Rajapakse, Miriam Otoo, George Danso
Cambridge Prisms: Water, Volume 1

Article
Climate change and resource insecurity-related mental health stressors among young adolescents in Kenya: Qualitative multi-method insights
Julia Kagunda, Aryssa Hasham, Carmen Helen Logie, Humphres Evelia, Clara Gachoki, Beldine Omondi, Mercy Chege, Maryline Okuto, Sarah Van Borek, Irene Wu, Lesley Gittings
Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, Volume 12

Article
Concretizing the Right to Water: Engaging Infrastructurally Powerful Actors in Nairobi
Maja Jeppesen
African Studies Review, Volume 68, Issue 2

Article
States as bystanders of legal change: Alternative paths for the human rights to water and sanitation in international law
Nina Reiners
Leiden Journal of International Law, Volume 37, Issue 1

Article
Routes of Care: Youth Mobility, Vernacular Publics, and Participatory Adaptation in Bangladesh’s Southwest Delta
Mohammad Rahmatullah, Tasnim Alam Mukim, Muztaba Rafid, Mohammad Mozammel Haque
Public Humanities, Volume 2

Article
Nonlinear internal wave groups due to the interplay between a coastal current, the tide and a ridge-valley shelf topography
John Grue, Johannes Röhrs
Journal of Nonlinear Waves, Volume 1

Article
Share of food group expenditure in Mexican households according to the gender of the head of household and size of the locality
Jocelyn Jaen, Sonia Collado-López, Brianda Ioanna Armenta-Guirado, Armando G.-Olvera, Mauricio Hernández-F
Public Health Nutrition, Volume 27, Issue 1

Article
Early introduction of water and complementary feeding and nutritional status of children in northern Senegal
Neil Gupta, Mario Gehri, Nicolas Stettler
Public Health Nutrition, Volume 10, Issue 11

Article
Assessment and preliminary study of water scarcity and water security in Libya.
Ammar Ammar
Libyan Studies, Volume 56

Article
The long-term history of water infrastructure and cisterns on the First Hill of Byzantium
James Crow, Çiğdem Özkan-Aygün, Stefano Bordoni, Lutgarde Vandeput
Anatolian Studies, Volume 75

Article
Water Regimes and Infrastructures: A Transhistorical Archaeology of the Desaguadero River, Bolivia
Scott C. Smith, Maribel Pérez Arias
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Volume 35, Issue 1

Article
Low-cost membrane supports for wastewater treatment made from local clay and calcite mixtures
Boukhemis Boudaira, Tarek Melki, Mohamed Mouadh Messaoui, Abdelhek Amri, Fatma Amraoui, Lobna Messeddek, Djamel Belamri, Boudjemaa Ghouil, Abdelhamid Harabi
Clays and Clay Minerals, Volume 73

Article
Conservation agriculture: helping to return to within planetary boundaries
Johan Rockström, Amir Kassam, Theodor Friedrich, Don Reicosky, Julian Dumanski, Tom Goddard, Roberto A. Peiretti
Global Sustainability, Volume 9

Article
Earth stewardship, water resilience, and ethics in the Anthropocene
Jeremy J. Schmidt
Global Sustainability, Volume 6

Article
Ten new insights in climate science 2025
Daniel Ospina, Paula Mirazo, Richard P. Allan, Smriti Basnett, Ana Bastos, Nishan Bhattarai, Wendy Broadgate, Derik J. Broekhoff, Mercedes Bustamante, Deliang Chen, Yeonju Choi, Peter Cox, Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta, Kristie Ebi, Pierre Friedlingstein, Thomas L. Frölicher, Sabine Fuss, Helge F. Goessling, Nicolas Gruber, Qingyou He, Sophie R. Hebden, Nadja Hedrich, Adrian Heilemann, Marina Hirota, Øivind Hodnebrog, Gustaf Hugelius, Santiago Izquierdo-Tort, Sirkku Juhola, Fumiko Kasuga, Piyu Ke, Douglas I. Kelley, Şiir Kilkiş, Maximilian Kotz, Nilushi Kumarasinghe, William F. Lamb, Shih-Yu Lee, Junguo Liu, Cara N. Maesano, Maria A. Martin, Guilherme G. Mazzochini, Christopher J. Merchant, Akira S. Mori, Jennifer Morris, Åsa Persson, Hans-Otto Pörtner, Benedict S. Probst, Justine Ramage, Estelle Razanatsoa, Aaron Redman, Johan Rockström, Regina Rodrigues, Sophie Ruehr, Sadie J. Ryan, Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Peter Schlosser, William A. Scott, Jan C. Semenza, Hansjörg Seybold, Drew T. Shindell, Giles B. Sioen, Kathryn E. Smith, Youba Sokona, Annika H. Stechemesser, Thomas F. Stocker, Sophie H. L. Su, Djiby Thiam, Gregory Trencher, Anna-Maria Virkkala, Lila Warszawski, Sarah Weiskopf, Henry Wu, Shupeng Zhu
Global Sustainability, Volume 9

Article
Towards elimination of genital schistosomiasis in Africa: Outlining strategic public health objectives and measures to protect future generations
Akinola Stephen Oluwole, Omosefe Osinoiki, Uwem Friday Ekpo, J. Russell Stothard, Martins Imhansoloeva, Cosmas Ejong Ndellejong, Pauline Ngina Mwinzi, Victoria Gamba, Christine Makia, Philip Downs, Joy Shu’aibu, Elena Schmidt, Richard Selby
Parasitology, Volume 152, Issue 14