Thomas P Gleeson, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, RIHN Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan, Samuel C Zipper, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Miina Porkka, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland, Fernando Jaramillo, Stockholm University, Physical Geography & Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden, Dieter Gerten, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, Rockstrom Johan, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Taikan Oki, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States, Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Kate A Brauman, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Martina Flörke, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, Marc FP Bierkens, Deltares, Unit Subsurface and Groundwater Systems, Utrecht, Netherlands, Bernhard Lehner, McGill University, Department of Geography, Montreal, QC, Canada, Patrick Keys, Colorado State University, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Matti Kummu, Aalto University, Water and Development Research Group, Aalto, Finland, Thorsten Wagener, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, Simon J Dadson, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, Tara Troy, Lehigh University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Will Steffen, Retired, Washington, DC, United States, Malin Falkenmark, SU, Stockholm, Sweden and James S Famiglietti, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada