Cambridge Prisms: Water in Practice features contributions from water practitioners i.e. industry experts, NGOs contributing to solving water problems as well as governmental agencies and policy experts.

For a list of our practitioner contributions published to date, please see the bottom of the page.

A guide for practitioner contributions

This section highlights key practitioner contributions either as a Perspective or a data reporting article (Case Study). This section aims to provide cross-learning opportunities for and facilitate the exchange of success stories and failures, particularly in translating theoretical concepts into practical solutions. In this section, practitioners are welcome to report new technologies and comparative results for existing technologies, emerging issues with potential impacts and navigating through such issues with effective strategies. All practitioner contributions should contain original material not published elsewhere other than as an abstract or a preliminary report to agencies.

Case studies, whether from rapid response projects or progress on long-term projects, should contain critical evaluation of the projects, well-developed discussions that provide constructive information, and recommendations for improvement within the context of water problems. Data reported should be robust enough for further analysis by others. Articles could be written using the guide provided here.

Practitioner experience and thought pieces will be published as Perspective Articles and may be written using the guide provided here.

Prior to acceptance, practitioner contributions described above will be subject to scrutiny by practising water specialists related to the field or problem under consideration who will provide constructive feedback and establish the efficacy of the material being presented. Whilst these articles may offer opinions and assessments, they should not be used as advocacy for proprietary commercial products or services from the authors’ organisation.

Peer review of practitioner contributions will focus on the key principles listed below to evaluate contributions:

• The clarity of the problem or question the article focuses on
• Relevance of the solution identified, and recommendations being made to the initial problem
• Validity of the information reported
• In cases of failure in translation of theoretical research/concept into practice being reported, the article will be evaluated thoroughly to ensure reported failure is not due to operational inefficiencies but as far as possible reflects the limitation of the theoretical concepts when applied to real-world challenges.

Perspective Articles