Water Resources Research: Past, present, and future

Water Resources Research was established as a multidisciplinary journal largely to satisfy needs perceived by a committee headed by the late Walter Langbein in 1962. The papers in volume 1, number 1, set the tone and high standard of scholarship for all subsequent issues; we are all in debt to the founding co-editors, Allen Kneese and Walter Langbein, for their leadership and vision. Most research workers consider this journal to be a highly desirable forum to share their ideas and findings with colleagues. What has served the community well for twenty-five years may or may not be the most appropriate medium as we enter the era of multimedia and multisensorial display of the information from which we distill our knowledge.