The high scientific standards maintained by Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - AQUA in its papers owe much to the continuing dedication of the journal's referees, who give freely of their time and expertise. IWA is pleased to pay tribute to this contribution by recognizing those who have participated in the review process. Thus, the Editors of Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - AQUA acknowledge with particular gratitude the following referees who have reviewed papers during the period January 2017–December 2017.
| Mahyar Aboutalebi | I-chieh Chien | Shen Jiangnan | Nguyen Mi | Haijia Su |
| Samia Achour | Young Cho | Li Jianzhu | Hassan Mohamed | C. Suribabu |
| Rak Adam | Shakhawat Chowdhury | Klaus Johannsen | L. Monteiro | Massoud Tabesh |
| Sajal Adhikary | Symeon Christodoulou | Myung Chae Jung | Seyyed Alireza Mousavi | Amtul Bari Tabinda |
| Augustine Affam | Kung-Hui Chu | Takashi Kameya | Gholamreza Moussavi | mohammad mehdi Taghizadeh |
| Mohammad Hadi Afshar | Yi-Hsueh Chuang | Vasilis Kanakoudis | A. Muhammetoglu | Hao Tang |
| Mansoor Ahammed | Luciano Coccagna | I.Ethem Karadirek | Rafael Mujeriego | Jorge Tarchitzky |
| John Akudago | Enrico Creaco | Bryan Karney | Z. V. P. Murthy | Ahmed Tawfik |
| Sonia Al Heboos | Jan Dahlquist | George Kastl | Jana Naceradska | Athanasia Tekerlekopoulou |
| Adel Al-Gheethi | Yong Deng | Konstantinos Katsifarakis | Amr Nada | Sanjay Thakare |
| Imran Ali | Asaad Derbala | Faheem Khan | Ido Negev | Prathna Thanjavur Chandrasekaran |
| Abolghasem Alighardashi | Andrea Dietrich | Sanghyun Kim | Mohammad Hossein Niksokhan | Li-Chia Tien |
| Majed Alsaydalani | Ulrich Dittmer | Otto Klemm | Katerina Novotna | Konstantia Tolika |
| Taha Al-Washali | Lihua Dong | Petr Klusoň | Daniel Ooi | Hassan Torabi Pudeh |
| Elham Ameri | Enrico Drioli | Dan Koo | Hua-se Ou | Stavroula Tsitsifli |
| Ernesto Arandia-Perez | Huan-Feng Duan | Steffen Krause | Christine Owen | Hsin-hsin Tung |
| Erik Arvin | Ahmed El-Zeiny | R. Naresh Kumar | Declan Page | Velitchko Tzatchkov |
| Ali Reza Asgari | Miraç Eryiğit | Bohus Kysela | Yi-Fong Pan | rita ugarelli |
| Stephanie Ashbolt | Bahman Esfandiar | George Kyzas | Hitesh Panchal | Wolfgang Uhl |
| Muhammad Ashraf | Rolando Fabris | Hong-Thih Lai | Anastasia Papadopoulou | Meine Peter van Dijk |
| Olivier Autin | Elahe Fallah-Mehdipour | Jothinathan Lakshmi | Javier Páramo-Vargas | Jakobus van Zyl |
| Mohamed Ayoub | Francisco Jesus Fernandez Morales | Dora Laky | Sachin Patil | Joanne Vanderzalm |
| Amin Bagheri | Marco Ferrante | Daniele Lantagne | Haiyan Pei | Vikas Varekar |
| Shu-Juan Bao | David Ferras | L. Latchoomun | Yang Peiling | Petra Vasatova |
| Magdalena Baresova | Giuliana Ferrero | Martti Latva | Francisco Pinto | Paula Vieira |
| Danka Barlokova | Ian Fisher | Markus Lechner | Kalyan Piratla | Florian Wagner |
| Lisa Barrott | Mahmoud Fouad | Lai Yoke Lee | E. I. Prest | Corinne Wallace |
| Onita Basu | Marco Franchini | M. C. Lee | Valeria Puleo | Chen Wang |
| Alireza Bayat | Hadi Galavi | Angelo Leopardi | Fangshu Qu | Fei Wang |
| William Becker | Kein Gan | Chi-Wang Li | Marjan Randjelovic | Fenghe Wang |
| Prashant Bhave | Sławomir Garboś | Cong Li | Mohammad Hossein Rasoulifard | Hongyu Wang |
| Muhammed Bhuiyan | R Garg | Fushen Li | Eldon Rene | Jundong Wang |
| Omer Bilhan | Sagar Gawande | Jinjun Li | James Riley | XianBao Wang |
| Gavin Birch | Zong Woo Geem | Heng Liang | Vicente Rodriguez-Gonzalez | Yingying Wang |
| Andrew Boal | Leon Geustyn | Angela Yu-Chen Lin | Dewi Rogers | Zheng Wang |
| Michal Bodzek | Kamal Ghadiri | Chin-Jung Lin | Dariusz Ropek | Amir Waseem |
| Hossein Bonakdari | Kebreab Ghebremichael | Jr-Lin Lin | Ritabrata Roy | Mark Wiering |
| Adria ́ n Bonilla-Petriciolet | Enedir Ghisi | Po-Hsun Lin | alejandro Ruiz-García | Herbert Keith Winning |
| Irena Branyikova | Elias Giannakis | Fangqiong Ling | Piotr Rzymski | Małgorzata Wolska |
| Jantinus Bruins | Jerome Gilbert | Huijuan Liu | Sumiyyah Sabar | Deli Wu |
| Laura Bulgariu | Joao Gomes | Ning Liu | Reza Safaei | Jer-Horng Wu |
| Gary Burlingame | Konstantinos Gonelas | Ruiping Liu | Biswajit Saha | Yu-Chun Wu |
| Enrique Cabrera | James Goodrich | Shou-Qing Liu | S.R. Samadder | Shuguang Xie |
| Guillermo Carbajal-Franco | Joanna Goscianska | Rodrigo Loyola-Sepulveda | Dalia I. Sánchez-Machado | Yi (Frank) Xiong |
| Nelson Carriço | Neil Grigg | Jin-suo Lu | G. Eduardo Sandoval-Romero | Yongpeng Xu |
| Davide Castagnetti | Jink C.J. Gude | Ming-Chun Lu | Ioan Sarbu | Eric Yee |
| Giuseppe Castaldelli | Vinod Kumar Gupta | Gang Lui | Ajeng Arum Sari | Do Guen Yoo |
| Lenka Cermakova | Yong Han | Xianping Luo | Stefan Schmidt | Candice Young-Rojanschi |
| Cem Polat Cetinkaya | Angela Harris | Arash Malekian | Klaas Schwartz | Guangming Zeng |
| S. N. Chan | Mohamed Hassaan | Lelum Manamperuma | Jean Luc Seidel | Junzhi Zhang |
| Panchangam Sri Chandana | Wen-Che Hou | Xuhui Mao | Omid Seyedashraf | Lixin Zhang |
| Sue-min Chang | Chihpin Huang | Nuno Martins | Shahram Sharifnia | Jianhua Zhou |
| Kwok-wing Chau | Maria Ignat | Susan J Masten | Saroj Sharma | Jonatan Zischg |
| Saif Ali Chaudhry | Ján Ilavský | Micol Mastrocicco | Amir Sheikhmohammadi | Haider Zwain |
| Olivier Chedeville | Prasad Inamdar | John Matthews | Baoyou Shi | Shaher Zyoud |
| Baiyang Chen | Ivana Ivancev-Tumbas | Edward McBean | Ashkan Shokri | |
| Qingfeng Cheng | Vaclav Janda | Jean McLain | Alexander Sinske | |
| Yong-guang Cheng | Jega Jegatheesan | Dena McMartin | Marcos Solache-Rios | |
| Chel-Ken Chiam | Joanna Jez-Walkowiak | Nuri Merzi | Benjamin Stanford |