It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to New Water Policy and Practice Journal: a platform for the world’s emerging water leaders and thinkers. Sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization and supported by a dynamic team which includes a nine member International Advisory Board and over 50 editors from more than 25 different countries, New Water Policy and Practice Journal is an online peer-reviewed open access journal, followed by hard copy, at least twice per year. Additional special issues will be published on an ad-hoc basis. All editions will feature foundational contributions from internationally recognised water leaders, together with submissions expressing new ideas from the world’s young water professionals and emerging water leaders. With these first opinion editorials we hope that the intentions of New Water Policy and Practice Journal are clear and inspirational: to encourage and drive transversal approaches to the development of new and innovative methods that link theory and practice, management and policy, that address the real challenges faced by people around the world, and to provide a platform for new and emerging water leaders and thinkers to make an even greater contribution to finding the solutions so necessary to address the world’s current and future water challenges. Our hope is that as water policy makers, managers, researchers, educators, community leaders, and interested individuals around the world you will find New Water Policy and Practice Journal a highly useful addition to the literature supporting practical solutions to water challenges. EDITORS-IN-CHIEF SUSANA NETO, Universidade Nova de Lisboa JEFF CAMKIN, University of Western Australia CAROLINA HENRIQUES, ISCTE Lisbon University Institute, Portugal