Water

Water Resources, Economic Development and Environment Carrying Capacity

edited by

, Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu and

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 17007 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource management; environmental assessment; carrying capacity; industry development; economic growth

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

Artificial Intelligence in Water Science: Opportunities, Prospects, and Concerns

edited by

Jinfeng Wang

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 12725 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; emerging contaminant; wastewater treatment; groundwater; surface water

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

Long-Term Coastal Evolution and Morphodynamics: Ecosystem Protection and Coastal Safety

edited by Fu Wang, Fengling Yu, Yan Li and Xiaohe Lai

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 11 articles | Viewed by 10849 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal evolution; transgression; Holocene sea-level change; coastal wetland; shoreline change; ecosystem protection; coastal safety

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

Remote Sensing of Spatial-Temporal Variation in Surface Water

edited by

Zheng Lu

,

Xiang Li

and Yongkai An

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4406 | Submission Open

Keywords: surface water; remote sensing; spatial-temporal dynamics; water cycle; data fusion; uncertainty

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Application of Microbial Technology in Wastewater Treatment

edited by Xiwei He and Depeng Wang

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4115 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbial technology; wastewater treatment; high-risk pollutants; carbon neutrality

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

Research on River Environmental Flows and Habitat Restoration

edited by

Xuan Ban

,

Wenxian Guo

and Yicheng Fu

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2775 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental flows; riverine habitat restoration; ecosystem integrity; water resource planning; ecological flow management

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

Stormwater Management in Sponge Cities

edited by

Cristina Matos

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 19276 | Submission Open

Keywords: NbS; rainwater and stormwater management; stormwater quality; runoff reduction

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

Advanced Adsorption Technology for Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Daniela Fighir

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12043 | Submission Open

Keywords: adsorption; innovative materials; emerging pollutants; wastewater treatment; water treatment

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

The Application of Novel Biotechnologies for Removal of Emerging Contaminants

edited by

Paulina Rusanowska

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11291 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastic; antibiotics; heavily polluted wastewater; microorganisms communities; membranes

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

Hydraulic Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Digital Twin Technology

edited by

, Hao Gu,

,

, Yating Hu and

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11064 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; digital twin technology; safety monitoring; hydraulic engineering; safety monitoring data preprocessing

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

Advanced Oxidation and Photocatalytic Approaches for Efficient Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Water Treatment

edited by Liping Wang and Changyu Lu

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9826 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation process; photocatalytic semiconductors; organic pollutants; water treatment

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

Advancement of Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Water Reuse

edited by

Jiangyong Hu

,

Say-Leong Ong

, Yu-Jung Liu and

Wenjun Sun

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8896 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation process; organics removal; transformation products; toxicity evaluation; pre- and post-process; water and wastewater treatment; water reuse; cost-effectiveness analysis; policy and management

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

Constructed Wetlands and Emerging Pollutants

edited by

Yaqian Zhao

, Cheng Shen and Ting Wei

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8127 | Submission Open

Keywords: constructed wetlands; emerging pollutants; wastewater treatment

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

Water Pollutants and Human Health: Challenges and Perspectives

edited by Simon Jackson and

João Brandão

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8031 | Submission Open

Keywords: biomarkers; endotoxin; fungal contaminants; AMR genes; antimicrobials; microplastics; emerging pathogens

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and One Health)

Microplastics in Water Environments: Sources, Transport and Degradation

edited by

Sabina Ziembowicz

and

Małgorzata Kida

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7753 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics pollution in water environments; point and nonpoint sources of microplastics; environmental distribution; fate; and transport of microplastics; definition of microplastics and international regulations; health effects of microplastic exposures; transformation of microplastics in the aquatic environment; abiotic and biotic aging of microplastics; methods for the analysis of microplastics in the water environment; technologies for removal of microplastics; scientific perspective on microplastics in nature and society

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

Sustainable Development of Water, Energy and Environment Systems (SDEWES 2024-2025)

edited by

Susana P. Boeykens

,

Oz Sahin

, José María Ponce-Ortega,

Maria Vicidomini

and

Md Mortula

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5785 | Submission Open

Keywords: water management; sustainability comparisons and measurements; green economy and better governance; climate resilient water systems; environmental policy and management; transformative water governance; water and wastewater treatment; water– energy nexus; energy and water efficiency; water demand management; water systems in rural; regional; and island communities

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

Soil Water Balance and Management: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

edited by Pei Tian,

Hai Xiao

and

Wenzhao Guo

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5255 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; soil water management; soil and water conservation; water erosion processes; water and soil pollution control; non-point source pollution control; integrated water management; erosion modeling

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

Water-Induced Geo-Disaster Reduction in the Context of Climate Change: Hydrology, Management Strategies, and Ecological Geological Engineering

edited by

Chang Zhou

and

Massimiliano Bordoni

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4939 | Submission Open

Keywords: water-induced geo-disaster; water burst; hydrological cycle processes; soil and water conservation; monitoring systems; numerical simulation; ecological restoration; resilience strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Membrane Separation and Water Treatment: Modeling and Application

edited by Xianghao Ren, Linan Xing and Jooil Park

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4167 | Submission Open

Keywords: water and wastewater treatment and reuse; membrane technologies; activated carbon; adsorption; chemical filtration; gas separation; energy storage and utilization

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

Intelligent Analysis, Monitoring and Assessment of Debris Flow

edited by Weijie Zhang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3696 | Submission Open

Keywords: debris flow; water– soil coupling; artificial intelligence; numerical analysis; monitoring; risk evaluation; mitigation measure

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

Advances in Research on Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soil and Water

edited by

Lin Guo

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2818 | Submission Open

Keywords: phytoremediation; soil; water; labortory studies; field applications

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

Advances and Innovations in Technologies for Treatment and Toxicity Assessment of Conventional and Emerging Contaminant in Industrial Wastewater

edited by

Yongkui Yang

and

Yingxin Zhao

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2198 | Submission Open

Keywords: industrial wastewater treatment; wastewater reuse; conventional and emerging contaminants; toxicity and risk assessment; AI; intelligent control; LCA

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

Modelling, Monitoring and Assessment of Soil Hydrology and Ecological Processes

edited by

Lei Han

and Ming Zhao

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2080 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing; spatial analysis and modeling; soil moisture; vegetation ecology; multiple scale; climate change; land use

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

Numerical and Experimental Methods, Data Analyses, Digital Twin, IoT Machine Learning and AI in Water Sciences

edited by

Junye Wang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1542 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; water quality; biodiversity; modelling; simulation; integration; monitoring; data analyses; digital twin; IoT machine learning and AI

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

Application of Smart Technologies in Integrated Water Quality Modeling, 2nd Edition

edited by Tianxiang Wang and

Haiyan Zhang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1273 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental model; assessment method; statistic model; mechanism model; regional indicators; machine learning; water resource

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

Rural Wastewater Treatment by Nature-Based Solutions

edited by

Rui Zhang

and

Xuetong Yang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 774 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural wastewater treatment; water reuse; nature-based solutions; life cycle assessment; techno-economic analysis; resource recovery; sustainability

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

Membrane Technologies for Biofouling Prevention in Water: Theory, Methods and Applications

edited by

Mònica Reig

and Guillem Gilabert-Oriol

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 366 | Submission Open

Keywords: biofouling; fouling; organic fouling; reverse osmosis; membranes; nanofiltration; desalination; water treatment; wastewater; brackish water; seawater; bacteria; biofilms

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

Biochar’s Role in Water-Stable Soils and Remediation

edited by

Mohammad Ghorbani

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 188 | Submission Open

Keywords: biochar; soil hydraulic properties; water retention; infiltration; soil– water interactions; soil amendment; soil water holding capacity; hydrological modeling; climate resilience; sustainable land management

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

Drought Risk Assessment and Human Vulnerability in the 21st Century, 2nd Edition

edited by

João Filipe Santos

and

Miguel Potes

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 166 | Submission Open

Keywords: drought risk assessment; climate change; human and environmental vulnerability; resilience building; IPCC scenarios

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

Bridge Hydraulics: Current State of the Knowledge and Perspectives, 2nd Edition

edited by

Giuseppe Oliveto

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open

Keywords: bridge hydraulics; bridge scour; bridge embankment breaching; bridge scour countermeasures; bridge monitoring techniques; fluvial hydraulics; sediment transport

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

Ecological Influence Assessment on the Occurrence and Control of Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms in Aquatic Habitats

edited by

Jieming Li

and

Peng Xiao

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 151 | Submission Open

Keywords: harmful cyanobacterial bloom; occurrence; control; cyanotoxin; ecological consequence; biogeochemical process

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

Ship and Ocean Engineering

edited by

Yu Hu

and

Liang Sun

submission deadline 23 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4780 | Submission Open

Keywords: fixed and floating offshore wind turbines; cables and mooring; wave loads; wind loads

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

Aquaculture Productivity and Environmental Sustainability

edited by Changwei Li,

Wenchang Liu

and Gang Liu

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15412 | Submission Open

Keywords: recirculating aquaculture systems; aquaculture engineering; wastewater treatment; environmental sustainability; precise farming management; smart aquaculture

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

Risk Characterization, Assessment, and Management Derived from Water for Environmental/Human Health

edited by

Cheng Yan

and

Annalaura Carducci

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9424 | Submission Open

Keywords: water and human development; water pollution; risk assessment; environmental health risks; human health risks; hazard identification; dose– response assessment; exposure assessment; risk characterization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and One Health)

Basin Non-Point Source Pollution

edited by

Lei Chen

, Qiuliang Lei and Cheng Sun

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8752 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-point source pollution; watershed model; best management practices; watershed management; agricultural management

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

Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Addressing Critical Challenges Related to Water Resources

edited by

Abdeltif Amrane

and

Jie Zhang

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 6610 | Submission Open

Keywords: water treatment; water management; contaminants; artificial intelligence; deep learning applications; predictive modeling

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

Applications of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Technologies in Soil Moisture Monitoring

edited by

Lingli Zhao

,

Hongtao Shi

and

Weidong Sun

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5315 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture inversion; mulit-source remote sensing technologies; data fusion

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

Protection and Restoration of Freshwater Ecosystems

edited by

Ivana Buj

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4565 | Submission Open

Keywords: conservation activities; ecological restoration; ecological state; extinction risk; freshwater environments; protection of biodiversity; threats to freshwater environments

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

River Science: Integrated Management of Water Resources in the Anthropocene, 2nd Edition

edited by

Martin Schletterer

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1876 | Submission Open

Keywords: river science; monitoring; multiple stressors; hydrobiology; hydromorphology; river restoration; habitat modeling

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

Hydrogeology of the Mining Area

edited by

Abdelkabir Maqsoud

and

Ana Teresa Luís

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 986 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrogeological characterization; hydrogeological modeling; dewatering; open pit; deep mining; hydrochemistry; backfill; environmental impact; mine site reclamation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Snow and Glacier Hydrology in Changing Climate and Urbanisation

edited by Mohd Soheb

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 729 | Submission Open

Keywords: glaciers; snowmelt; hydrology; runoff; water management; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Resilient Water Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Agroecosystems

edited by

Eeswaran Rasu

and

Prakash Kumar Jha

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 288 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural water management; seasonal climate forecasting and smart irrigation technologies; options for water-efficient rainfed agriculture; soil moisture sensors and IoT for decision support in irrigation; rainwater harvesting; reservoirs and tank management for agriculture in arid regions

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

Using Artificial Intelligence for Smart Water Management, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jianjun Ni

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 181 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; smart water; Internet of Things; machine learning; automation; robotics

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

Advances in AI, Numerical, and Experimental Approaches for Water Resources Applications

edited by

Mario Maiolo

and

Guglielmo Federico Antonio Brunetti

submission deadline 26 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3970 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; numerical modelling; remote sensing; experimental hydraulics; nature-based solutions; coastal risk mitigation; water distribution systems; climate change adaptation; hydrology; water resource applications

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

Machine Learning in Water Distribution Systems and Sewage Systems

edited by Jacek Piekarski and

Jacek Dawidowicz

submission deadline 26 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2618 | Submission Open

Keywords: water distribution systems; sewage systems; stormwater systems; hydraulic simulations; artificial intelligence models; machine learning; deep learning models; evolutionary computation; fuzzy inference

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

Using Machine Learning Methods for Agricultural Water Cycle Assessment

edited by

Ze Liu

submission deadline 27 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7871 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural water resources; machine learning; water demand; big data; features

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

Wastewater Resourceization: Pioneering the Future of Sustainable Water

edited by

Lei Qin

submission deadline 28 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1650 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation; nanomaterials; adsorption; membrane bioreactor; membrane fouling control; membrane modification; wastewater resource utilization; immobilized microorganisms/enzymes

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

Monitoring and Assessment of Water Quality in Drinking Water Distribution Systems

edited by Hui Zhang and Dan Zhong

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 29425 | Submission Open

Keywords: water distribution system; drinking water; water quality; monitoring; water quality indicator; water quality analysis; pollutant; risk assessment; water quality management; modeling

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

Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Gender, Community-Based Approaches, and Local Governance in Mitigating Water-Related Hazards

edited by

Ashfaq Ahmad Shah

and Wahid Ullah

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11689 | Submission Open

Keywords: inclusive disaster risk reduction; community resilience and vulnerability; local governance and disaster risk reduction; community-based disaster risk management; socio-economic impacts of water hazards; nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation; water hazards and social inequalities; gender based violence in response to water hazards

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

Effects of Hydrology on Soil Erosion and Soil Water Conservation

edited by Yifan Dong,

Mingming Guo

and

Dan Yang

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5033 | Submission Open

Keywords: water erosion; splash erosion; rainfall; overland flow; concentrated flow; jet flow; infiltration; subsurface flow; modeling; soil conservation

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

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