Sustainable Water Quality Management in the Changing Environment—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Owing to the increasing number of extreme precipitation events due to climate change concomitant with population growth and anthropogenic activities (e.g., agricultural activities, urbanization), water quality degradation has worsened around the globe. Given the many perspectives regarding maintaining sustainable water resources through contemporary as well as emerging concepts, there is a critical need to create knowledge-based systems to ensure the safety and security of our future generations from a clean water crisis. The ever-increasing threats to water quality degradation are further highlighted through the status and trends of water quality deterioration in major river basins around the world. Therefore, at this juncture, it is imperative to i) identify primary factors and their thresholds influencing water quality degradation, and ii) quantify the water quality improvement through various science-based experiments/research in complex human and natural systems.

The overarching objective of this Special Issue entitled “Sustainable Water Quality Management in the Changing Environment” is to gather various types of research activities (e.g., empirical, conceptual, applied science, as well as literature reviews) on water quality and related topics such as eutrophication and harmful algal blooms in one place. This will enrich our knowledge on sustainable water quality management, which will indirectly bolster the priority of Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations on “access to clean water”. This Special Issue will cover a wide spectrum of topics related to water quality, including:

• Understanding eutrophication and harmful algal blooms in waterways using data analytics and machine learning algorithms;
• Quantifying the potential impacts of climate and land use change on hydrology and water quality using process-based models;
• Applying the variable source area hydrology concept to improve water quality;
• Investigating the role of climate and watershed characteristics to better understand water quality and stream integrity using advanced statistical modeling;
• Examining the potential of best management practices (BMPs; e.g., agricultural and urban BMPs) to ameliorate water quality deterioration due to climate change and anthropogenic activities;
• The fate and transport of bacteria (coli and fecal coliforms) in agricultural and urban environments;
• Quantifying the potential impacts of climate extremes (e.g., drought and flooding) on water quality in river basins;
• Socio-environmental systems and complex interaction using agent-based modeling.

Dr. Subhasis Giri
Guest Editor

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• harmful algal blooms
• eutrophication
• climate change
• variable source area hydrology
• best management practices
• stream integrity
• non-point source pollution
• drought
• flooding

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