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Interest into the roles of water on aqueous phase heterogeneous catalysis is burgeoning. This short review summarizes the influences of hydrogen bonding on adsorption and how water molecules act as co-catalysts in aqueous phase heterogeneous catalysis. These phenomena, which involve interactions and/or reactions with “dangling” hydroxyl or hydroxide groups from nearby water molecules, are related...