Dear Colleagues,

The Water Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in assessing the manuscripts submitted to the journal. With their great support, many interesting papers of high quality have been published in Water and quick peer review process is maintained.

The following five referees have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Water, Prof. Arjen Y. Hoekstra, to be awarded “Water 2017 Outstanding Reviewers” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2017. Each of them will receive 500 CHF and a certificate for their outstanding review work:

• Giuseppe Oliveto, University of Basilicata, Italy
• Sally Logsdon, National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, IA, USA
• Antonio Manuel Herrera Fernandez, University of Bath, UK
• Francesco Aristodemo, Università della Calabria, Italy
• Haw Yen, Texas A&M University, TX, USA