Peer review

I review research on drinking-water quality, water and sanitation services, groundwater contamination, household water insecurity, membrane treatment and environmental-health risks. Reviewing keeps me current on new treatment and service-delivery work, and it forces me to state a methodological concern precisely enough for an author to act on it.

Why I review

Much of the research I review examines a technology or service deployed in a resource-constrained setting and asks what changed afterward. I have worked on that problem from the implementation side, so I look closely at whether the intervention was delivered as described, whether the outcome and denominator are clear, and whether the conclusion travels beyond the data.

Peer review also keeps me current on new water-treatment and service-delivery research, and forces me to explain methodological concerns precisely enough for an author to act on them.

What I look for

A clear question. What decision or claim is the study actually trying to inform?question

A credible comparison. What would have happened without the intervention, and does the design support that comparison?comparison

Measurement that matches the claim. Was exposure, use, water quality or health measured at the point needed to support the conclusion?measurement

A denominator that remains visible. How many households, systems, samples or people were eligible, observed, lost and analyzed?denominator

Implementation detail. Was the technology installed, used, maintained and supported in a way that another team could reproduce?implementation

Uncertainty and limits. Could confounding, censoring, missing data, clustering, selection or measurement error change the interpretation?uncertainty

Conclusions that stay within the evidence. Does an association become a causal statement? Does a laboratory result become a claim about long-term field performance? Does reach become active use?conclusions

The verified record

Journal	Publisher	Main area reviewed	Assignments
Journal of Water and Health	IWA Publishing	Water quality and health outcomes	30
Applied Water Science	Springer Nature	Treatment and water chemistry	9
Chemical Engineering Research and Design	Elsevier	Process and separation engineering	5
Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development	IWA Publishing	WASH in lower-income settings	5
Water Cycle	Elsevier	Water reuse and the urban water cycle	3
Water Policy	IWA Publishing	Governance and utility operations	3
Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering	Elsevier	Applied case work	3
International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology	Springer Nature	Environmental engineering	1
Total		Eight journals	59

Counts are completed review assignments recorded in my reviewer tracker, not a count of distinct manuscripts. A manuscript returned for a second round is a second assignment.

What I review

Recent topics include microbial drinking-water quality and health risk, groundwater contamination, household water insecurity, school sanitation, dialysis water, utility monitoring, membrane technology, machine learning in hydrology, and antimicrobial resistance in water systems.

BangladeshEthiopiaKenyaUgandaDR CongoIndiaIraqCôte d’IvoireSaudi Arabiaand other settings

Review requests

If you have original research, an intervention or a water technology that fits these areas, write to usamatanveer526@gmail.com with the abstract, journal or venue, and proposed timeline.