Statement 

Water Harvesting Research (WHR) is an international scientific journal, fully open access, peer-reviewed, electronic and print, the semianual publication concerned with water harvesting and water resources engineering. WHR publishes novel and original research papers, research notes, and reviews of basic sciences as applied to water harvesting issues and analyses of the current papers providing that they are not published in or issued for other journals. 

The WHR is published by University of Birjand and supported by the Iranian Rainwater Catchment Systems Association (Grade A). We would like to inform you that the Ministry of culture I.R. Iran has issued a permission to publish through the approval letter No. 75497. 

Financial Policies

Article Processing Charges

Article processing charges and any other publication fees in the journal are free for authors, so there is no article processing charges. 

Subscription Fee

WHR has been published as an open-access electronic journal, so audiences do not have to pay subscription fees. 

Open Access and Copyright Statement

Journal of Water Harvesting Research (WHR) is a fully open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. WHR is licensed under the terms of the   Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0).

This license allows users to copy and redistribute the article under the following conditions:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

The authors are the copyright holders of this journal. Authors retain copyright for their content in this journal and under an open-access license. However, they allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly.

Publication Ethics Policies

Water Harvesting Research (WHR) is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. (See Publication Ethics)

Publishing schedule

Water Harvesting Research (WHR) is published 2 issues per year (Semianual). All the content from the beginning to the end will be available for ever on journal exclusive website.

(https://afi.journals.iau.ir/browse?_action=issue&lang=en)