Water

Water Resources and Environment Management in Watersheds with Intensive Human Activities

edited by

Chenning Deng

and

Yang Xu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; water environment; sustainable management; human activities; influencing factors

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

Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Ecosystem Dynamics in Mountainous and Cold-Region Ecosystems

edited by Terry V. Callaghan CMG

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources and water use; biodiversity; climate changes; cold regions; mountainous regions; ecosystems; ecosystem services and feedback; human impact; population

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Engineering Hydrogeology Research Related to Mining Activities, 2nd Edition

edited by Wei Qiao and Bo Li

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanism of water inrush; prediction of mine water hazard; intelligent warning and monitor of mine water hazard; mine water injection and storage; mine water reinjection and geological storage; mine inflow; evolution of groundwater flow field; water inrush from separate layer; research on rock dynamics with fluid– structure coupling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Engineered Nanoporous Sorbents for Removing Emerging Pollutants from Aqueous Environments

edited by Jian Shen

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanoporous sorbents; engineering strategies; emerging pollutants; adsorption; water purification

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

Impact of Biochar Additions on Soil Hydraulic Properties

edited by Peizhen Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil hydraulic properties; biochar characteristic; soil water retention; water-saving irrigation; soil pore characteristics

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

Implementation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Marine Ecosystem Management, 3rd Edition

edited by

Genuario Belmonte

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7392 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem services; marine biodiversity; marine environment management; mesophotic environment; carbon sink; fishery and marine food; new marine based tourism; climate history; marine litter

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

Impact of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystems

edited by

Md Khurshid Alam Bhuiyan

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3924 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; global change; marine pollution; fisheries and food security

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

Treatment and Resource Utilization of Urban Sewage Sludge

edited by

Jiangwei Li

, Yan Li and Xiaoyong Yang

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1346 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban sewage sludge; treatment technologies; resource utilization; environmental impact; anaerobic digestion; composting; incineration; land application; circular economy; sustainable management

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

Applications of Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Water Resource Management

edited by

Rana Waqar Aslam

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1111 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological remote sensing; water resource monitoring; satellite hydrology; soil moisture detection; precipitation estimation; flood mapping; drought assessment; multi-sensor integration; machine learning in hydrology; wetlands/lakes dynamics

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

Advancing Data-Driven Approaches in Landscape Hydrology: Innovations and Applications

edited by

Mo Wang

,

Rana Muhammad Adnan Ikram

and

Shiqi Zhou

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 863 | Submission Open

Keywords: data-driven hydrology; machine learning in hydrology; hydroinformatics; climate change adaptation; nature-based solutions; GIS-based hydrological modeling; flood and drought mitigation; sustainable water management

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

Wetland Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment

edited by

Qi Huang

and Tianxiang Wang

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 655 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; monitoring and assessment; aquatic ecosystems; model; sustainability; machine learning

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

Development of New Wastewater Treatments for the Efficient Removal of Micropollutants

edited by

Marta Otero

,

Olga Matos de Freitas

and

Sónia Figueiredo

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 309 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular management of water; ecotoxicity; emerging concern contaminants; environmental monitoring; life cycle assessment; quaternary treatments; reuse of treated wastewater; sustainable treatment processes

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

Biological Nitrogen Removal in the Multi-Omics Era: Coupling Anammox with Microbial-Mineral Synergy

edited by Zhaoming Zheng,

Xiaoxia Wang

and

Yuanyuan Miao

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 98 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable nitrogen removal processes; anaerobic ammonium oxidation; aerobic granular sludge; microbial& ndash; mineral interactions; multi-omics microbial analysis; bioengineering in wastewater treatment; nitrogen biogeo-chemical cycle; detection and removal of emerging pollutants; water quality assurance technologies; resource re-covery from wastewater

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

Application of Electrochemical Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Arif Reza

and

Soomin Shim

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrocoagulation; electrooxidation; electro-fenton process; electrodialysis; electrode materials; reactive electrochemical membranes; advanced electrochemical oxidation processes (AEOPs); process modeling and optimization; hybrid electrochemical-biological systems; decentralized wastewater treatment; techno-economic and life cycle assessment (LCA)

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

Complexities and Uncertainties of Water Policy, Governance and Management

edited by Liang Yuan, Weijun He and Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open

Keywords: complexity; uncertainty; adaptability management; resilience governance; cooperation mechanisms

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

Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing in Ecohydrology

edited by

Xiaoping Wang

and

Xiangyu Ge

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 64 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite remote sensing; hydrological models; deep learning; data-driven methods

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

Advancing the Monitoring and Modelling of Freshwater Systems with New Remote Sensing Technologies, 2nd Edition

edited by

Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open

Keywords: airborne remote sensing; flood forecasting; fluvial geomorphology; ice detection; ice characterization; near-ground remote sensing; river and lake modelling; river and lake monitoring; sediment transport; space-borne remote sensing; water quality

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

Advances in Phytomanagement of Arsenic and Emerging Contaminants in Soil and Water

edited by Patrizia Brunetti and

Giuseppe Capobianco

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 58 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil and sewage sludge contamination; water contamination; Arsenic; microplastics; PFASs heavy metals; molecular and morpho-physiological response in plants; advanced monitoring technologies

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

Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation, 2nd Edition

edited by

Peng Li

, Jianye Ma and

Binhua Zhao

submission deadline 26 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 294 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; soil and water conservation; ecohydrology; climate change; vegetation restoration; gully engineering

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

Advances in Biological Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Jingqing Gao

and

Panpan Liu

submission deadline 27 Nov 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11250 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; biological technologies; nutrient recovery; environmental microbiology; hydrophytes; emerging contaminants; carbon neutrality

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

Preparation, Characterization and Photocatalytic Degradation of the Sulfate Oxidants for Water Treatment

edited by

Zihao Wu

submission deadline 28 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open

Keywords: sulfate radicals; AOP; photocatalytic degradation; radical reaction kinetics; catalyst characterization; catalyst synthesis and optimization

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

Hydrodynamics in Pressurized Pipe Systems

edited by

Kamil Urbanowicz

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9039 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrodynamics; hydraulics; pressurized water pipelines; transient flow; unsteady flow

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

Advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Hydrological Processes and Hydrologic Disasters

edited by Huaxiang Yan and

Hongqiang Dou

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3247 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence technologies; groundwater transport; hydrological processes; hydrologic disasters; hydrologi-cal modelling; machine learning; soil water

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

New Methods and Technologies of Urban Flood Forecasting, Risk Assessment and Response

edited by Ganggang Zuo and Jiancang Xie

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2113 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban flood; flood forecasting; risk assessment; artificial intelligence; flood response

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Impact of Climate Change on Water and Soil Erosion

edited by

Yinghui Guan

and Xinliang Wu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1451 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water and soil erosion; sediment transport; runoff; land use changes; precipitation extremes; carbon cycle

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

Application of Bioremediation in Groundwater and Soil Pollution

edited by Aizhong Ding and

Dayi Zhang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 967 | Submission Open

Keywords: bioremediation; enhanced bioremediation; natural attenuation; natural source zone depletion; green and sustainable remediation; mechanisms of microbial detoxification; soil pollutants; groundwater pollutants

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

Research on the Carbon and Water Cycle in Aquatic Ecosystems

edited by Kun Sun and Junjie Jia

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 891 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic ecosystem; inland water; carbon cycle; carbon budget; carbon metabolism; biogeochemistry; ecohydrology; greenhouse gas emission

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Spatial Linkages Between Geographical Environments and Health Indicators: From Water Quality Parameters to Regional Health Status

edited by

Zihao Wu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 512 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental health biomarkers; spatial heterogeneity; regional health disparities; pollutant transport and transformation; health risk assessment; environmental medicine interdisciplinarity

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

The New Nexus: The Interconnection of Climate Change, Source Water Protection, and Public Health

edited by

Carolyn Rodak

, Shannon Roback and Richard Weisman

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 204 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water quality; disinfection byproducts; drinking water; public health; source water protection; water infracture

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

Water Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration: 2nd Edition

edited by

Ruiming Han

and Xin Leng

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 120 | Submission Open

Keywords: water pollution; ecological restoration; lake and river; water quality; aquatic ecology

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

New Aseismic Technology and Methods in Hydraulic Structures and Geotechnical Engineering

edited by Xiang Yu,

Yuke Wang

and Yongqian Qu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 79 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulic structures; geotechnical engineering; soft foundation; numerical simulation; experimental technology; dynamic response; damage behavior; liquefaction; stability; reliability analysis; treatment measure

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

Innovative Green Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Sludge Valorization Towards a Circular Economy

edited by

Hu Zhao

and

Yun Chen

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 69 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable wastewater treatment; sewage sludge valorization; resource recovery; circular economy; green chemistry; nutrients circulation; advanced pretreatment technology; low-carbon technologies; life-cycle assessment

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

Ecosystem, Groundwater, and Soil Contamination: Detection, Impact Assessment, and Remediation Strategies

edited by

Kabari Sam

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental pollution; coastal and estuarine ecosystem health; macrobenthic ecology; environmental sustainability; groundwater contamination; heavy metal contamination in aquatic ecosystems; heavy metal contamination in soils; water– sediment quality assessment; mangrove degradation

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

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

edited by Helong Gu,

Fan Feng

and Yuan Zhao

submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2766 | 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 1679 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4475 | 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 1201 | 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 1192 | 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 30 | 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)

Intelligent Safety Diagnosis and Reinforcement of Water-Related Buildings

edited by Yangtao Li,

Yang Wei

and Hao Gu

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3410 | Submission Open

Keywords: dams; breakwaters and reservoirs; hydraulic structures; hydropower refurbishment; smart diagnosis; structural safety; hydraulic rehabilitation; dike & coastal defense safety; intelligent management & reinforcement; machine learning & deep learning

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

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 Lopes

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2069 | 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)

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

edited by

Riza Radmehr

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1608 | 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)

Solid-Liquid Separation Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

edited by Wenjun Zhang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 91 | 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)

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

edited by Xudong Zhang,

,

,

and

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9937 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

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 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9409 | 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)

Recent Advances in Flood Risk Assessment and Management

edited by Xiaolei Zhang and Xiao Liu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5322 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood risk assessment; hydraulic and hydrological modeling; climate change and flood frequency; flood risk mapping; flood protection infrastructure; early warning systems; socioeconomic impacts of flooding; community-based flood management; flood resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

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 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5251 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4853 | 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)

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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4621 | 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)

The Safety Operations and Intelligent Control of Water Network Engineering Systems

edited by