Editorial

Water Science and Technology as a journal has been published for nearly half a century and thus covers most of the history of the field. Despite changes and adaptation in the focus and management of the journal, the structure of the Editorial Board is inherited from its beginnings and has remained largely unchanged. As the number of submissions that need to be handled now reaches and looks to exceed 2,500 per annum, this has led to a huge number of Editors and Associate Editors, which currently stands at 94 in total.

In order to allow for a more targeted approach in terms of editorial strategy and organisation, it was decided to restructure the Editorial Board and to implement an additional organisational layer, i.e. the Core Editor Team (currently seven members). The key targets of this new team are first operational, e.g. how the peer review process...