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With scarcity of locally available water supplies in many regions of the world, impacts from severe droughts, rising energy prices, the need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and requirements for environmental restoration, water resource crisis is one of the top obstacles restricting the world’s sustainable development. Water reclamation and reuse are becoming an increasingly important component of water resource management worldwide and have been considered as a promising way to mitigate the global water resource risks. During the recent 10 years, significant advances have been made in water reuse management (in particular new approaches in reuse regulations and risk management); water reuse and its role in mitigating climate change impacts; water and energy nexus in water reuse; and water reuse projects directed to water and food, urban, and industrial applications as well as direct potable reuse. This special issue on WaterRR includes a selection of papers presented at the10th IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation and Reuse, which was held in the Harbin Institute of Technology of China on July 5–9, 2015. The biennial IWA water reuse conference represents the most advanced technology and policy research level of water reuse, leading the development of water reuse in the world. More than 150 experts and scholars from 25 countries and regions worldwide attended this conference. Eighty-six oral presentations and 36 poster presentations were given during the conference. The topics include, but not limited to: