WIREs Water的范圍是五個(gè)截然不同的知識(shí)主題之間的界面：水的基礎(chǔ)科學(xué)，物理和化學(xué)，通量以及它轉(zhuǎn)移和轉(zhuǎn)化的東西; 生活在水中，以及生態(tài)系統(tǒng)和生物對(duì)水的生存和繁榮的依賴; 水的工程，以提供服務(wù)和保護(hù)社會(huì); 與水環(huán)境共處，體驗(yàn)和管理的人; 以及我們作為一個(gè)社會(huì)通過藝術(shù)，宗教，歷史帶來(lái)水的那些解釋，這些解釋反過來(lái)決定了我們?nèi)绾卫斫馑?這些界面不僅僅是通過必然是跨學(xué)科的觀點(diǎn)來(lái)看待水的方式。 它們也被設(shè)計(jì)成面向外部，以便水如何幫助理解有關(guān)我們的環(huán)境和人類 - 環(huán)境相互作用的更廣泛的問題。

The scope of WIREs Water is at the interfaces between five very different intellectual themes: the basic science of water, its physics and chemistry, flux, and things that it transfers and transforms; life in water, and the dependence of ecosystems and organisms on water to survive and to thrive; the engineering of water to furnish services and to protect society; the people who live with, experience and manage the water environment; and those interpretations that we, as a society, have brought to water through art, religion, history and which in turn shapes how we come to understand it. These interfaces are not simply designed to be ways of looking at water through what necessarily must be interdisciplinary perspectives. They are also designed to be outward facing in terms of how water can help to understand wider questions concerning our environment and human-environment interactions.