Water Quality Studies: Assessing the Presence of Nutrients and Pollutants

Dear Colleagues,

Studies on water quality is particularly important for understanding the present and future environmental challenges occurring due to intensifying human activities and ongoing climate change. Environmental pollutants come from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Significant amounts of pollutants are emitted into the environment in urbanized and industrialized areas of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The transboundary pollutants are also found in areas lacking local sources, including remote areas such as the Arctic and the Antarctica. To fully understand the environmental changes around us and the possible risks associated with them, it is of paramount importance to develop an interdisciplinary approach to study both spatial and temporal (long-term and short-term) changes in the levels of pollutants in surface waters. In such a research method, special attention should be paid to not only the direct impact of human activities but also to changes in meteorological conditions that can cause a hydrochemical response in surface waters.

This Special Issue aims to publish papers on water quality studies incorporating environmental data and explanations of related factors and processes that may contribute to changes in pollutant levels. Therefore, we encourage authors to submit cross-disciplinary articles on observations of environmental change based on the chemical analysis of various types of surface water (i.e., snow, precipitation, runoff water, rivers, streams, lakes, and marine), groundwater as well as artificial reservoirs in different regions of the world.

Dr. Sara Lehmann-Konera
Dr. Anna Maria Sulej-Suchomska
Guest Editors

Dr. Joanna Potapowicz
Guest Editor Assistant

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Water is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• transboundary pollutants
• persistent compounds
• bioaccumulative chemicals
• toxic contaminants
• trace elements
• major ions
• organic compounds
• catchment
• freshwater
• runoff and discharge
• climate change impact