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Water SA is the WRC’s accredited scientific journal which contains original research articles and review articles on all aspects of water science, technology, engineering and policy. Water SA has been in publication since 1975 and includes articles from both local and international authors. The journal is issued quarterly (January, April, July, October). Water SA is now published at www.watersa.net – please visit this site for all issues from Volume 44 (2018) onward.  To find articles from Volumes 1 (1975) to 44 (2018) browse or search the archive. Articles from 1975–1997 are available as scanned PDF files and from 1998 onward as searchable PDF files.

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Contact the Editor: watersa@wrc.org.za

Open Access policy

Water SA is an open access journal and all content is available without charge to the user.

The content of this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal under the terms of this Licence, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

The publisher’s version of the article may be archived in an online repository, by the author or any other user.

Water SA

Science Citation Index Impact Factor

  • 2025 Impact Factor – 1.4; 2022 5-year Impact Factor – 1.5
  • 2024 Impact Factor – 1.2; 2022 5-year Impact Factor – 1.3
  • 2023 Impact Factor – 1.0; 2022 5-year Impact Factor – 1.2
  • 2022 Impact Factor – 1.5; 2022 5-year Impact Factor – 1.8

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Archive

187 issues in the archive