The high scientific standards maintained by Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development in its papers owe much to the continuing dedication of the journal's reviewers, 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, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development acknowledge with particular gratitude the following reviewers who have reviewed papers during the period January 2017–December 2017.
| Felix Abagale | Aidan Cronin | Guy Hutton | Meera Mehta | Rodrigo Sánchez Román |
| Idris Abdullahi | Heather Cruickshank | Ioannis Ieropoulos | Jonathan Mellor | Venakata Santosh Kumar Delhi |
| Lydia Abebe | Philip Darko | Adesola Ilemobade | Hunachew Mengesha | Suriyanarayanan Sarvajayakesavalu |
| Katherine Alfredo | Bhaswati Das | Martín Iribarnegaray | Jennifer Mercer | Maria Ines Sato |
| Richard Amankwah | Jenna Davis | John Bosco Isunju | archisman Mohapatra | Marion Savill |
| M.T. Amin | Les Dawes | Amy Javernick-Will | Maggie Montgomery | Wolf-Peter Schmidt |
| Prince Antwi-Agyei | AH de Moraes Neto | AJ Johannes | Diafarou Moumouni | Klaas Schwartz |
| Braimah Apambire | Jacqueline Devine | Oliver Jones | Dennis Mwanza | Lucas Seghezzo |
| Rosa Araujo | Leslie Dodson | Elizabeth Jordan | Nazmun Naher | Sudhindra Sharma |
| Colleen Archer | Caetano Dorea | Tim Julian | Touraj Nasrabadi | Katherine Shields |
| Andrew Armstrong | Robert Dreibelbis | Khumbo Kalulu | Kara Nelson | Ryan Sinclair |
| Sudipti Arora | Youssef El Guamri | Edith Kamundi | Tommy Ngai | Nitin Singh |
| Mahad Baawain | Elsayed Elkhatib | Leonie Kappauf | Vilas Nitivattananon | Heidi Snyman |
| Rafael Bastos | Sarina Ergas | Md. Rezaul Karim | Charles Niwagaba | Thomas Soerens |
| Rachel Baum | Anthony Ewusi | Tapio Katko | Chidozie Nnaji | Bojan Srdjevic |
| Catherine Bernard-Pattinson | Peter Feldman | Mario Kato | Clair Null | Minnepar Sridhar |
| David Bethune | Lloyd Fisher-Jeffes | Bernard Keraita | Ify Nwaogazie | Thor Axel Stenstrom |
| Keshav Bhattarai | Lisa Fleming | Syed Najam Khurshid | Stewart Oakley | Paula Stigler-Granados |
| Narayaan Billava | Madeleine Fogde | Richard Kimwaga | Kafui Ocloo | Linda Strande |
| Adam Biran | Catarina Fonseca | Rebecca King | Edema Ojomo | Bradley Striebig |
| Eline Boelee | Janet Forrester | Marianne Kjellén | Oladapo Okareh | Ramnath Subbaraman |
| Susan Bolton | Tim Foster | Thomas Koenig | Vincent Okudoh | Nawatch Surinkul |
| Matthew Bond | Mark Francis | Pete Kolsky | Elizabeth Oloruntoba | Sally Sutton |
| Alisson Borges | Werner Fuchs | Vishnu Konoorillam | David Olukanni | Yosuke Tabata |
| Robert Bos | Joe Gadek | Thammarat Koottatep | Kathleen O'Reilly | Kevin Tayler |
| Petre Bretcan | Mary Galvin | Ingeborg Krukkert | William Oswald | Yoke Pean Thye |
| Clarissa Brocklehurst | Kimberley Geissler | Emily Kumpel | Martin Oteng-Ababio | Elizabeth Tilley |
| Steven Buchberger | Rick Gelting | Elisabeth Kvarnström | Rita Padawangi | Sithabile Tirivarombo |
| Chris Buckley | Jessen George | Daniele Lantagne | Sudan Raj Panthi | Adriano Tonetti |
| Zachary Burt | Redaie Getachew | Rafael Leal | HyunJu Park | Gary Toranzos |
| Caitlyn Butler | Gopal Ghosh | Wilfried Letah Nzouebet | Alison Parker | Maïmouna Traore |
| John Butterworth | Walter Gibson | Baoqiang Liao | Ricardo Passos | Sophie Tremolet |
| Miller Camargo-Valero | Samuel Godfrey | Giovanni Libralato | J.N. Patel | Aime Tsinda |
| Ken Caplan | Bruce Gordon | Harold Lockwood | Sutapa Pati | Stavroula Tsitsifli |
| Richard Carter | Katie Greenland | Christoph Luthi | Stephen Pedley | Sayed Mohammad Nazim Uddin |
| Vivian Castro-Wooldridge | Hatem Haidar | Rolf Luyendijk | Eddy Perez | G.P. Vadodaria |
| Sue Cavill | Ralph Hall | Claire Lyons | Jessica Petz | Carolien van der Voorden |
| Pisit Chareonsudjai | Mohammed Hamzah | Jackie MacDonald Gibson | Verena Pfeiffer | Joep Verhagen |
| Christie Chatterley | Mooyoung Han | Daniel Maeusezahl | Jagdeep Podichetty Thribhuvan | Bala Vigneswaran |
| K.W. Chau | Suzanne Hanchett | Ioannis Manariotis | Jamuna Prakash | Nicolas Villeminot |
| Xiaohui Chen | Hidenori Harada | Duncan Mara | Christine Prouty | Isaac Volschan Jr |
| Yu-Ling Cheng | Shervin Hashemi | Sara Marks | James Ramontja | Luke Whaley |
| Katya Cherukumilli | Jiajie He | Rania Maroun | Brian Reed | Amber Wutich |
| Steven Chiesa | Han Heijnen | Sam Masih | Maria Fernanda Reyes Perez | Travis Yates |
| Derek Chitwood | Helvi Heinonen-Tanski | Mateus Matos | Ingo Rohlfing | Guangcan Zhu |
| Sonal Chonde | Zvikomborero Hoko | Adrien Mazeau | Jan-Willem Rosenboom | Valentina Zuin |
| Elizabeth Christenson | Rochelle Holm | Jennifer McConville | Arno Rosmarin | Christian Zurbrugg |
| Fernando Colen | Bilqis Hoque | James McKinley | Ian Ross | |
| Christopher Juan Costain | Guy Howard | Stephen Mecca | David Sabatini | |
| Jonny Crocker | Paul Hutchings | Dinesh Mehta | Sivachidambaram Sadasivam |