Water Conservation Science and Engineering

Water Conservation Science and Engineering is a journal on the science and engineering of conserving water, published by Springer.《Water Conservation Science and Engineering》是一份聚焦节水之科学与工程的期刊，由施普林格出版。

It was founded in 2016 and asks that a study bear on how water is actually conserved rather than stay in the laboratory.该刊创办于 2016 年，要求研究关系到水究竟如何被节约，而非停留于实验室。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report it holds an impact factor of 3.3, and it stands in the second quartile of water resources.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊的影响因子为 3.3，在水资源类目列第二区。

Scope

• The journal takes water conservation and assured supply as its subject, and it asks how a practice is made to hold at scale.该刊以节水与供水保障为题材，追问某项做法如何在规模上成立。

• Novel materials are named, and the journal carries work on a membrane or an adsorbent that serves a water treatment.新型材料被点名，该刊刊载服务于水处理的膜或吸附剂的工作。

• Technological solutions are treated, and the journal admits work on a device or a process that cuts what a system loses.技术方案得到处理，该刊收载能削减系统损耗的器件或工艺方面的工作。

• Environmental monitoring is named, and the journal takes work on how a water body is watched over time.环境监测被点名，该刊收载水体如何被长期守望的工作。

• Risk assessment is part of the remit, and the journal carries work on how a hazard to a supply is judged.风险评估属于收稿范围，该刊刊载供水所面临的危害如何被评判的工作。

• Water reuse is treated, and the journal admits work on how a treated stream is returned to use.水的回用得到处理，该刊收载处理过的水流如何被重新投入使用的工作。

• Desalination is named, and the journal carries work on how fresh water is drawn from a salty source.海水淡化被点名，该刊刊载淡水如何自咸水源取得的工作。

• Rainwater harvesting is treated, and the journal takes work on how a catchment is made to yield more.雨水集蓄得到处理，该刊收载集水区如何被使其产出更多的工作。

• Irrigation efficiency is named, and the journal carries work on how a field is watered with less waste.灌溉效率被点名，该刊刊载田地如何以更少浪费被浇灌的工作。

• Industrial water use is treated, and the journal admits work on how a plant is made to draw and discharge less.工业用水得到处理，该刊收载工厂如何被使其取用与排放更少的工作。

• Modelling is part of the remit, and the journal takes work on how a catchment or a network is represented.建模属于收稿范围，该刊收载集水区或管网如何被表述的工作。

• Policy and management are weighed with the science, and the journal carries work on how a water system is governed.政策与管理同科学一并权衡，该刊刊载水系统如何受治理的工作。

• A paper that reports only laboratory work is declined unless it bears on improving conservation, and the journal states that limit.仅报告实验室工作的论文不予收载，除非其关系到改进节水，该刊写明这一界限。

• Reviews are taken alongside original work, and the journal asks that a survey set out where a technique stands.综述与原创工作一并收载，该刊要求述评陈明某一技术的现状。

• The journal is meant to reach across scales, and it takes work on a household device as well as on a regional scheme.该刊意在跨越尺度，家庭器具与区域方案的工作一并收载。

History

• The journal was founded in 2016, and it was proposed to meet a gap in the reporting of water conservation.该刊创办于 2016 年，其提出是为填补节水报道上的一处空白。

• It was set up under the leadership of an engineer in Malaysia, and it was issued by a large scientific publisher.该刊在一名马来西亚的工程师主持下设立，由一家大型科学出版方发行。

• Only one number is in use for the title, and the journal is published online rather than in print.该刊只使用一个刊号，以在线而非印刷形式出版。

• A volume is published for each year, and the series had reached volume 11 by 2026.该刊每年出版一卷，到 2026 年已出至第 11 卷。

• One issue was gathered into a volume at first, and the journal has since grown to three in a year.该刊起初每卷汇集一期，此后已增至每年三期。

• Articles are published online ahead of an issue, so that a paper may appear before the issue it is assigned to.论文先于某一期在线发表，因而一篇论文可以在其所归的某一期之前出现。

• The journal is hybrid, and an author may pay a charge to make a paper free to read or leave it behind a subscription.该刊为混合模式，作者可以缴费使论文免费阅读，也可以留其在订阅之后。

• The impact figure has risen in recent editions, standing at 1.3 for 2023 and reaching 3.3 in the 2025 edition.影响因子在近期各版中上升，2023 年为 1.3，2025 年版为 3.3。

• The journal is indexed in the emerging sources citation index, and it is carried in Scopus and in a large water database.该刊被新兴资源引文索引收录，并被 Scopus 与一所大型水资源数据库收录。

• A decision is reached quickly, and the journal reports a short median time from submission to a first decision.该刊迅速作出决定，报告从投稿到首次决定的中位时间很短。

• Special collections are assembled around a theme, and the journal gathers work on a single technology or a single region.该刊围绕主题编成专题合集，汇集关于某一技术或某一地区的工作。

Editors

• Meng Nan Chong of Monash University Malaysia is editor-in-chief, and his own field is the treatment and reuse of water.莫纳什大学马来西亚校区的（Meng Nan Chong）担任主编，其本人领域为水的处理与回用。

• He proposed the title and has led it since, and he also leads a research alliance on sustainable water.他提议创办该刊并自此主持，同时领导一个可持续水研究联盟。

• A body of editors and an editorial board are drawn by subject, and the journal names members from universities and from water utilities.一组编辑与一个编委会按学科遴选，该刊列出来自大学与水务企业的成员。

• The journal sets out the classes of manuscript it takes, along with the length and structure each of them should follow.该刊列明所收稿件的类别，以及各类别应遵循的篇幅与结构。

• Each paper is sent to independent referees, and the review is anonymous on the side of the reviewer.每篇论文送交独立审稿人，评审在审稿人一侧为匿名。

• Authors must declare any competing interest, and the journal states its ethical requirements in full.作者必须声明任何利益冲突，该刊完整说明其伦理要求。

• Where a claim rests on a measurement, the journal asks that the method and its errors be given in full.论断若依赖某项测定，该刊要求完整给出方法及其误差。

• A paper on a small device is asked to say how it would behave in a real system, and the journal weighs the answer.论及小型器件的论文须说明其在真实系统中会如何表现，该刊权衡这一回答。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's system, and an enquiry may be made before a paper is written.稿件通过出版方的系统投递，在动笔之前可先行询问。

• The journal is read by environmental engineers and by chemists, by water managers and by policy analysts, and it writes for all of them.该刊的读者既有环境工程师与化学家，也有水务管理者与政策分析人员，它为这几类人写作。

• Work that carries a laboratory process toward a utility is given room, and the journal asks what the carrying changes.把实验室工艺带向供水企业的工作有篇幅可用，该刊追问这一带动改变了什么。

• Studies that report a negative result are taken, since a treatment that failed in the field is worth recording.报告阴性结果的研究也在收载之列，因为在实地失效的处理同样值得记录。

• Work on a leak in a distribution network appears among the subjects, and the journal carries papers on how it is found and fixed.配水网络漏损方面的工作列于选题之中，该刊刊载其如何被发现与修复的论文。

• Work on a greywater system is treated, and the journal admits papers on how household water is used twice.灰水系统方面的工作得到处理，该刊收载家庭用水如何被使用两次的论文。

• The journal keeps its reviews distinct from its original reports, and a reader can tell from the rubric which is which.该刊把综述与原始报告区分开来，读者可从栏目看出何者为何者。

• Work on groundwater recharge is named, and the journal carries papers on how an aquifer is refilled on purpose.地下水回补方面的工作被点名，该刊刊载含水层如何被有意回灌的论文。

• Work on a solar still is treated, and the journal admits papers on how fresh water is made with little else than sunlight.太阳能蒸馏方面的工作得到处理，该刊收载几乎仅凭阳光制取淡水的论文。

• Work on demand management is named, and the journal asks how a community is brought to use less.需求管理方面的工作被点名，该刊追问社区如何被引导使用更少之水。

• Work on wastewater treatment is treated, and the journal carries papers on how a stream is cleaned to a chosen standard.污水处理方面的工作得到处理，该刊刊载水流如何被净化至选定标准的论文。

• Work that weighs a scheme against its energy cost is welcomed, and the journal carries papers on what the scheme buys.把方案与其能耗相权衡的工作受到欢迎，该刊刊载该方案换得何物的论文。

• Work on the quality of a reclaimed stream is named, and the journal admits papers on what remains in it.再生水流的水质方面的工作被点名，该刊收载其中残留何物的论文。

• Work on a catchment scale intervention is treated, and the journal asks what it does to a whole basin.流域尺度的干预方面的工作得到处理，该刊追问其对整个流域做了什么。

• The journal follows the publisher's policy on research integrity, and it records corrections and withdrawals where they arise.该刊遵循出版方的研究诚信政策，出现更正与撤稿时予以记录。