Water

Theory and Technology of Water-Induced Geological Disaster Prevention and Water Resource Utilization in Mines

edited by Helong Gu,

and Yuan Zhao

submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6803 | Submission Open

Keywords: water-induced geological disasters; utilization of water resources; mine water treatment; fundamental mechanics theory of water-bearing coal rocks; surrounding rock water disasters; loess collapsibility; soil liquefaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)

Research on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics

edited by

Zhi-jun Dai

and

Jie Wang

submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2612 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal geomorphology; coastal sediment dynamics; coastal resilience; river morphodynamics; runoff changes; sediment discharge; estuarine change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Advances in Biological Technologies for Drinking and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez

,

Barbara Muñoz-Palazon

and Alejandro Rodriguez-Sanchez

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9202 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater biological treatment; drinking water treatment; anaerobic reactor systems; aerobic reactor technologies; environmental biotechnology; groundwater treatment; membrane-based bioreactors; granular biomass processes; microbial communities in water and wastewater treatment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

The Impacts of Human Activities on the Functional Ecology of Coastal Microbial Communities

edited by Qiuzhen Wang, Xinlong An and

Guangyi Wang

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1617 | Submission Open

Keywords: human activities; microbial communities; marine pollution; marine conservation; climate change; eutrophication; metagenomics; coastal ecosystems; marine ecological balance; deep sea

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Transport of Mixture of Cohesive and Non-Cohesive Sediments in Rivers

edited by

Bommanna Krishnappan

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1593 | Submission Open

Keywords: cohesive sediment; non-cohesive sediment; transport of sediment mixture; river flows; erosion and deposition; flocculation; critical conditions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)

Innovative Approaches in Groundwater Pollution Source Identification and Quality Monitoring: Challenges and Future Directions

edited by Lixin Yi

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 133 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater pollution source identification; water quality monitoring; hydrogeological modeling; big data analytics; isotopic tracing; data integration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Insights on the Water–Energy–Food Nexus and Sustainable Development

edited by

Riza Radmehr

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5985 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental sustainability; food production; water management; energy security; machine learning; waste management; remote sensing analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water-Energy Nexus)

Evapotranspiration and Plant Water Stress Measurements as the Driving Standard for Agricultural Irrigation

edited by

Teresa Afonso do Paço

,

Maria Isabel Freire Ribeiro Ferreira

and

Joao Rolim

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4704 | Submission Open

Keywords: evapotranspiration; irrigation scheduling; deficit irrigation; water stress indicators; ground truth data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture)

Solid-Liquid Separation Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

edited by Wenjun Zhang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 519 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid– liquid separation technology; wastewater treatment; mineral processing wastewater; flocculation and sedi-mentation; technological innovation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Climate Risk Management, Sea Level Rise and Coastal Impacts

edited by

Nawin Raj

, Nathan Downs and Lila Singh-Peterson

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 30010 | Submission Open

Keywords: oceanic changes; climate risk management; deep learning; climate change; sea level rise; remote sensing; artificial intelligence; machine learning; coastal changes; oceanography; wetland changes; mangrove changes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Water Quality Examination: The Investigation of Heavy Metal Contamination, Nutrients, and Organic Pollutants in Aquatic Environments for an Enhanced Prevention and Purification Process

edited by

Thomas Dippong

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15555 | Submission Open

Keywords: water pollution; contamination of groundwater; aquatic ecosystems; monitoring of water resources; management for sustainability; removal of heavy metals; eutrophication; bioremediation; chemical or biological technologies; aquatic environments; risk assessment; phytoremediation of water; microplastics in water; nutrients in water; heavy metal in water; organic pollutants in water; bacterial contamination of water

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

Effects of Groundwater and Surface Water on the Natural Geo-Hazards, 2nd Edition

edited by Xudong Zhang,

,

,

and

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13966 | Submission Open

Keywords: water modeling; soil– water interaction; rock– water interaction; geo-hazards; water-induced problems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Impacts of Climate Change & Human Activities on Wetland Ecosystems

edited by Zhongqing Yan, Guopeng Liang, Yingxin Shang and Xueping Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12280 | Submission Open

Keywords: wetland ecosystems; ecosystem services and functions; protection and restoration; climate change and human activities; wetland hydrological processes; greenhouse gas (GHGs) fluxes; nutrient cycle and energy flow; water environment quality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Machine Learning Applications in the Water Domain

edited by

Yonggui Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 11238 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource; machine learning (ML); neural network; hydrological phenomena; water quality; time series prediction; water body identification; classification; comparative analysis; interpretability of ML

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)

Slope Stability Analyses and Landslide Risk Assessment Under Hydrodynamic Action

edited by

Zheng-Yi Feng

,

Cheng-Yu Ku

and

Frank Tsai

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10950 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide; debris flow; river bank erosion and protection; slope stability; landslide risk assessment; groundwater seepage; landslide mitigation; water erosion; sediment transport

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)

Evaluation of Microbiological Indicators for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

edited by

Anna Lenart-Boroń

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10633 | Submission Open

Keywords: antibiotic resistance; bacteria; drinking water; fungi; health risks; irrigation; microbiological contamination; protozoa; treatment plants; viruses; wastewater treatment; water pollution; water reuse

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

Flood Inundation Modeling and Mapping: Application of Hydrodynamic Models, Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Tools

edited by

Fazlul Karim

and

Catherine Ticehurst

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9638 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrology; flood frequency; hydrodynamic modeling; remote sensing; machine learning; satellite imagery; SRTM; LiDAR; Sentinel-1; Sentinel-2; Landsat; floods; inundation; flood risk; uncertainty analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Microplastics Pollution in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Xueqiang Lu

and Chengtao Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9555 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics; ecotoxicology; aquatic systems; detection; mitigation strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)

Applications of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Xuetong Yang

, Rui Zhang and Yang Hu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 9141 | Submission Open

Keywords: persistent (micro)pollutants; PFAS; wastewater treatment; ozonation; environmental sustainability; water quality; life cycle assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Global Water Risks Across Shared River Corridors in Transboundary Basins

edited by

Shahbaz Khan

,

Arfan Arshad

,

Fazlullah Akhtar

and Zaichen Xiang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8659 | Submission Open

Keywords: transboundary river basins; water governance; capacity development; remote sensing; ML/AI tools; water quality and quantity; land-water dynamics; flood and droughts; land cover changes; outlook at shared aquifers

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Slope Stability Analyses and Risk Assessment for Rainfall-Induced Landslides

edited by

Qihang Li

,

Xiaoshuang Li

and Jiang Song

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6754 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslides; rainfall infiltration; slope stability; physical model experiment; numerical modelling; machine learning; advanced algorithms; failure mechanism; mitigation measures; monitoring and early warning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)

Application of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Purification

edited by

Yi Ren

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6617 | Submission Open

Keywords: water purification; wastewater treatment; water restoration; emerging contaminants; advanced oxidation processes; Fenton-like oxidation; photocatalysis; electrocatalysis; ozonation; non-thermal plasma; electron beam

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Research on Water Supply Systems and on the Treatment and Recovery of Wastewater and Stormwater

edited by

António Manuel Abreu Freire Diogo

,

Enedir Ghisi

and

Célia dos Anjos Alves

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6489 | Submission Open

Keywords: water supply systems; water resources management; non-conventional water sources; water supply networks; urban water infrastructures planning; design and rehabilitation; water quality; water treatment; public health; wastewater treatment and reuse; stromwater harvesting; environemtal sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)

Application of Hydrological Modelling to Water Resources Management

edited by

Doosun Kang

,

Amir Saman Tayerani Charmchi

and

Fatemeh Ghobadi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6185 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate-change adaptation; climate-related disasters; decision support systems; digital twins; early warning systems; environmental uncertainties; hydrological modeling; integrated water resources management (IWRM); machine learning and deep learning; model-informed decision making; multi-criteria decision making; multi-objective opti-mization; optimal water allocation; probabilistic modeling; proactive management strategies; reinforcement learning; remote sensing and GIS applications; scheduling and planning; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); water– energy nexus; water supply and demand; water resources management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Global Perspective on Hydrology and Water Resources Management in Complex Urban Areas

edited by Jingyuan Xue, Liuyue He and

Fan Zhang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6179 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources management; climate change resilience; water quality control; integrated water resource planning; non-point source pollution; flood risk assessment and mitigation; drought risk assessment and mitigation; urban– rural transitional areas; coastal regoins

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Advanced Numerical Approaches for Multiphase and Cavitating Flows

edited by Linmin Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5850 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiphase flow; cavitation; numerical simulation; Eulerian– Lagrangian approach; computational fluid dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)

Advanced Remote Sensing for Coastal System Monitoring and Management

edited by

Chunpeng Chen

,

Ce Zhang

and

Wenting Wu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4865 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal zones; remote sensing; coastal sustainable management; deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Study on Environmental Hydrology and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Basins, Estuaries and Offshore

edited by

Biyun Guo

and

Chunyan Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4651 | Submission Open

Keywords: water environment; coastal estuary; hydrodynamic; mathematical model

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Machine Learning Models for Flood Hazard Assessment

edited by

Álvaro Sordo-Ward

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4364 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; artificial intelligent; flood hazard; flood forecasting; flood warning; flood risk; models; real time; monitoring systems; climate change; new sensors; mitigation strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)

Machine Learning Models for Hydrological Inference: A Case Study for Flood Events

edited by

Li Zhou

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3225 | Submission Open

Keywords: development and optimization of machine learning models for flood prediction and early warning; multi-source data fusion and remote sensing applications in flood monitoring; hydrological response modeling under extreme rainfall conditions; interpretability; transferability; and uncertainty quantification of machine learning models; small-sample learning and transfer learning in data-scarce regions; hybrid modeling approaches that integrate physical-based and machine learning models; case studies and system-level applications of machine learning in real-world flood management contexts

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)

Advances in Metal Removal and Recovery from Water

edited by

Xiande Xie

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2413 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; water treatment; metal pollution removal; metal recovery; absorption; heavy metal

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Advancements in Remote Sensing and UAV Technologies for Water Management in Climate-Smart Agriculture Systems

edited by

Muhammad Awais

,

Xander Wang

,

Wei Li

and Selvarajah Thuseethan

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2393 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; climate-smart agriculture; water management; digital twins; sustainable farming; agricultural water use efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Advanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies with the Potential to Achieve Resource Recycling

edited by

Kinjal J. Shah

and

Yongjun Sun

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2385 | Submission Open

Keywords: water conservation; sustainable water management; efficient water use; water-saving technologies; water resource preservation; climate-resilient water systems; community water stewardship

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Studies on Toxic Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems

edited by Zongming Ren and

Chunlei Xia

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2375 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic toxicology; online monitoring technology; individual responses; toxic effects; water pollution; biodiversity; ecosystems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)

Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Monitoring and Conservation, 2nd Edition

edited by

Igor Zelnik

and

Mateja Germ

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2009 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; rivers; lakes; wetlands; springs; streams; groundwater; ponds; macrophytes; macroinvertebrates; diatoms; algae

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)

Mine Water Treatment, Utilization and Storage Technology

edited by Xiaojun Wang,

Xiang Li

and

Zhan Yang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1717 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-salinity wastewater; mine water treatment; mine water utilization; resource reuse; geological storage technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Advances in Monitoring of Hydrological and Ecological Processes Under Climate Change

edited by

Haibo Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1089 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological monitoring; ecological processes; climate change impacts; evapotranspiration modeling; data fusion; water use efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Rainfall Variability, Drought, and Land Degradation

edited by

Moncef Bouaziz

and

Harris Vangelis

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 993 | Submission Open

Keywords: rainfall; soil; land degradation; variabiltity; drought; modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)

Perspectives on Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Technologies

edited by Yuan Yan and Han Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 543 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater sustainability resource recovery system optimization biosolids and biogas management techno-economic analysis (TEA) life cycle assessment nitrogen removal integrated wastewater treatment systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Changes in the Regimes of Glacial and Permafrost-Influenced Watersheds in the High Arctic

edited by

Grzegorz Janicki

and Łukasz Franczak

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 293 | Submission Open

Keywords: proglacial catchment hydrology and hydrochemistry; glacial; snowmelt; permafrost and mixed-river regime; river flow dynamics and variability; rainfall and snowmelt floods; river and overland runoff; foodplain and channel morphology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Climate-Driven Coastal and Ocean Dynamics: Waves, Shoreline Changes, and Carbon Cycle Interactions

edited by

Frédéric Kpèdonou Bonou

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 248 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal erosion; wave climate; carbon sequestration; shoreline dynamics; ocean acidification; blue carbon; climate adaptation; remote sensing; sediment transport; extreme events

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Water Resource Simulation and Optimal Allocation: Theory, Methods and Applications

edited by

Adebayo J. Adeloye

and

Rabee Rustum

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 247 | Submission Open

Keywords: simulation; optimization methods; hybrid simulation– optimisation; multi-objective optimisation; irrigation; hy-dropower; floods; water quality; artificial intelligence (AI); machine learning (ML); heuristics optimization; un-certainty characterization; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)

Water-Soil-Vegetation Interactions in Changing Climate

edited by Mingjie Shi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– soil– vegetation nexus; carbon and water cycles; global environmental change; ecosystem resilience; sustainable management strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Rethinking Wastewater: Microbial Solutions for a Sustainable Future

edited by

Bharat Manna

and

Naresh Singhal

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater valorization; environmental biotechnology; activated sludge processes; microbial stress response; resource recovery; omics technologies; dissolved organic matter; circular bioeconomy; micropollutant degradation; metabolic modelling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Geotechnical and Underground Engineering Problems Caused by Water Action

edited by Yonggang Zhang, Cheng Lyu and

Lichen Li

submission deadline 24 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12562 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– soil coupling; tunnel water inflow; rock seepage; wading slope; hydraulic coupling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Optimisation of Water Distribution System Design and Operation Under Uncertainty

edited by

Avi Ostfeld

and

Sriman Pankaj Boindala

submission deadline 24 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 185 | Submission Open

Keywords: water distribution systems; uncertainty analysis; hydraulic and water quality modeling under uncertainty; optimization under uncertainty; stochastic and robust optimization; adaptive operational control; decision support systems under uncertainty

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)

Advances in Hydrodynamics for Pumping Systems: Modeling, Optimization, and Applications

edited by

Qiaorui Si

,

Gerard Bois

,

Asad Ali

and Yandong Gu

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8009 | Submission Open

Keywords: pumping systems; hydrodynamics; multiphase flow; cavitation ; computational fluid dynamics (CFD) ; energy efficiency ; turbulence modeling ; design optimization; transient flow; renewable energy integration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)

Hydrodynamics Science Experiments and Simulations, 2nd Edition

edited by

Yonggang Lu

, Yandong Gu,

Wenwu Zhang

and

Yongyao Luo

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 6117 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrodynamic experiment; hydrodynamic simulation; hydraulic machinery; multiphase flow; hydro energy technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)

Water Management and Geohazard Mitigation in a Changing Climate

edited by

Laszlo Podolszki

,

Igor Karlović

and Kosta Urumović

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4088 | Submission Open

Keywords: water managment; geohazards; mitigation; climate changes; sustainable development; groundwater; monitoring; mapping; modeling; risk assessment; multihazard analyses; vulnerability reduction; practical application; predictive analyses

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Effects of Vegetation on Open Channel Flow and Sediment Transport

edited by

Mengyang Liu

and

Yanxu Wang

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3374 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic vegetation; sediment transport; vegetation– flow– sediment interaction; turbulence; eco-hydraulics; open channel flow; river morphology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)

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