The high scientific standards maintained by Water Policy 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 Water Policy acknowledge with particular gratitude the following reviewers who have reviewed papers during the period January 2017–December 2017.
| Pamela Abbott | Keshab Das | Dariush Hayati | Maria Milanes-Murcia | Mohammad Valipour |
| Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero | Mohamed Dawoud | Robert Hearne | Maria Molinos Senante | Tom van der Voorn |
| Kemi Adeyeye | Joe Dellapena | Amye Hinson | Francois Molle | Pieter Van der Zaag |
| Shamseddin Ahmed | Jerome Delli Priscoli | Bruce Hooper | Jean-marc Mwenge Kahinda | Laura Vargas |
| Tony Allan | KV Dinesh | Desheng Hu | Ramakrishna Nallathiga | Emmanouil Varouchakis |
| Lal Almas | Rona Donahoe | Kai Huang | Daniel Narzetti | Niranjan Vedantam |
| Kamal Alsharif | Gabriele Dono | Olivia Jensen | Susana Neto | Ratna Reddy Vippala |
| Dogan Altinbilek | Guillermo Donoso | Shaofeng Jia | Guangheng Ni | P Viswanathan |
| Upali Amarasinghe | Yuneng Du | Yong Jiang | Ioannis Nikolaou | Nikolaos Voulvoulis |
| A. N. Angelakis | Weili Duan | Fuming Jin | Cunwen Niu | Cheng Wang |
| Jose Luis Arumi | Elgaali Elgaali | Juliang Jin | Gunilla Oberg PhD | Fuqiang Wang |
| Vandana Asthana | Mark Elliott | Shannon Joseph | Rodrigo Oliveira | Hongrui Wang |
| Sedat Ayanoglu | Kwame Emmanuel | Vasilis Kanakoudis | Kyle Onda | Huimin Wang |
| Chandra Bahinipati | Bert Enserink | Mitthan Lal Kansal | Julie Padowski | Xiaochang Wang |
| Claudia Baldwin | Lan Fang | Tapio Katko | Kenneth M. Persson | Zhinong Wang |
| Parthasarathy Banerjee | Francesco Fatone | David Katz | Gregory Pierce | Frank Ward |
| Alexandro Barbosa | Diogo Ferreira | Anthony Kiem | Francisco Pinto | Jeroen Warner |
| Anamika Barua | Giuliana Ferrero | Taewoong Kim | João Pires | Reagan Waskom |
| Nitin Bassi | Aldo Fiori | Matthew Kirkegaard | Mary Pitts | Nigel Watson |
| Fred Bloetscher | Ana Paula Fracalanza | Bernd Klauer | Gheorghe Ponta | Glenn Watts |
| William Blomquist | Jean Fried | Rodney Knight | Sarah Praskievicz | Erwin Wauters |
| Ilke Borowski - Maaser | Qiang Fu | Nicole Kranz | Khadeeja Priyan | Ashley Webb |
| Krzysztof Boryczko | Casey Furlong | Marcel Kuper | Simin Qu | Bill Werick |
| Jonathan Broadbent | Gerry Galloway | Adam C. Landon | Luisa Ribeiro | Sohan Wijesekera |
| Nathaniel Broadhurst | Ana Galvão | Kees Leendertse | Jose Angel Rodriguez Cabellos | Inga Winkler |
| Ximing Cai | Mary Galvin | Xavier Leflaive | Rodrigo Rondon | Kevin Winter |
| Günay ÇAKIR | Cloé Garnache | Mingliang LI | Biswatosh Saha | Aaron Wolf |
| Javier Calatrava | Jianping Ge | Peiyue Li | Doeke Schippers | Erika Wolters |
| Jianting Cao | Alexandra Gemitzi | Xiao Liang | Rodolphe Schlaepfer | Ralph Wurbs |
| Bruno Carvalho | Margarita Genius | Judit Lienert | Daniel Scholten | Yuan Xia |
| Eustaquio Carvalho | Sanchari Ghosh | Yanli Liu | Jan Selby | Jun Xiao |
| Adrian Cashman | Giacomo Giannoccaro | Dénes Lóczy | Ira Sharkansky | Lianqing Xue |
| Julien Chaisse | Peter Gleick | Jorge Loredo | Yuling Shen | Zhang Yang |
| Bin Chen | Yan Gong | Jay Lund | Pedro Simoes | Fengtian Yang |
| Dan Chen | Geoffrey Gooch | Kaveh Madani | Richard Skeffington | Dogan Yasar |
| li-juan chen | Mattia Grandi | Jampani Mahesh | Ed Smeets | Aizhong Ye |
| Leong Ching | Colin Green | Montginoul Marielle | Eugene Stakhiv | Gene, Jiing-Yun You |
| Srinivas Chokkakula | Neil S. Grigg | David Marlow | Marta Suárez-Varela | Mike Young |
| Nasima Chowdhury | Evangelos Grigoroudis | Rui Marques | Geoffrey Syme | Kerstin Zander |
| aad correlja | Laetitia Guerin-Schneider | Deborah McGregor | A. Dan Tarlock | Slim Zekri |
| Didia Covas | Joseph Gutenson | Richard McNider | danka thalmeinerova | Jin Zhang |
| Aidan Cronin | Efrat Hadas | Helen Mees | Ti Ti | Lihai Zhang |
| Ryan Cronk | Marwan Haddad | Isabela Meline | Guiliang Tian | Ming Zhang |
| guangbo Cui | shang haiyang | Guillermo Mendoza | Russ Tilman | Lijin Zhong |
| Bowman Cutter | Cameron Handyside | Filippo Menga | Konstantinos Tsagarakis | Guocheng Zhu |
| Xiaoping Dai | Stephanie Hawkins | Hojjat Mianabadi | Vasilios Tzanakakis | Qiting Zuo |
