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Freshwater Quality Challenges in Southern Europe under an Increasingly Warmer and Drier Climate Scenario

edited by

Daniela R. De Figueiredo

M. Teresa Condesso de Melo

and Sofia Bento

submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5168 | Submission Open

Keywords: drought; water quality; surface freshwaters; groundwater; water and society

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

Modeling and Analysis of Hydrological Responses to Climate Change or Variability

edited by Maria C. Neves

submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2495 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water resources; hydrology; variability; natural; anthropogenic

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

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

edited by Chenfei Shao, Hao Gu,

Yanxin Xu

Xiangnan Qin

, Yating Hu and

Huixiang Chen

submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1608 | 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)

Local and Watershed Sale Assessment of the Impacts of Agricultural Practices on Nitrogen Levels in Groundwater

edited by

Serban Danielescu

submission deadline 14 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 128 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural practices; nitrogen leaching; beneficial management practices (BMPs)

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

Hydro-Economic Models for Sustainable Water Resources Management

edited by

Joaquin Melgarejo

and

Francisco De Borja Montaño Sanz

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11230 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydro-economic models; sustainable water resources; water management; economic implications; water allocation

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

Aquatic Ecosystems: Biodiversity and Conservation

edited by Marcos Gomes Nogueira and Douglas Kane

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10665 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic ecosystem structure; aquatic ecosystem functioning; biodiversity assessment; taxonomic diversity; functional diversity; conservation strategies

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

Water Quality Assessment of River Basins

edited by Qianqian Zhang

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8600 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; hydrochemistry; pollution sources; source analysis; assessment methods; isotope technology; machine learning; multivariate statistical techniques; model

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

Modeling and Simulation of Supercritical Water Processes: Oxidation and Gasification

edited by Juan Ramón Portela Miguelez,

Lúcio Cardozo Filho

M. Belén García-Jarana

and J. M. Abelleira-Pereira

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6297 | Submission Open

Keywords: supercritical water oxidation; supercritical water gasification; modeling; simulation; scale-up; kinetics; energy recovery; hydrogen production; nutrients recovery; clean CO2

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

Effect of Climate Change on Water Availability in Arid and Semi-arid Regions

edited by

Ioannis Zarikos

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1840 | Submission Open

Keywords: alternative water resources; hydrogeology; climatic simulations; environmental sensors; water management; integrated water resources management

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

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Advances Review

edited by

Andrea G. Capodaglio

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1591 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban wastewater treatment; industrial wastewater treatment; advanced wastewater treatment technologies; nature-based wastewater treatment; ecological aspects of WWTR; treatment costs; energy requirements and sustainability of WWTR; emerging pollutants removal and destruction; wastewater-based circular economy; wastewater reuse; WEF Nexus; wastewater reuse issues; lessons learned from reuse applications; reuse challenges in specific countries and climatic areas; economic and regulatory aspects of wastewater reuse

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

Urban Drainage Systems and Stormwater Management

edited by

Yongwei Gong

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1322 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban drainage systems; urban flooding; low-impact development (LID); sponge city; urban rainwater collection; urban resilience

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

Nutrient Cycling and Removal in Watersheds

edited by Dan Dai

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 145 | Submission Open

Keywords: nutrient control; eutrophication; nutrient stoichiometry; algae blooms; nutrient attenuation

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

Advances in Ecohydrology in Arid Inland River Basins

edited by

Lianqing Xue

and

Guang Yang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 14504 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change and water cycle; ecohydrological processes; efficient utilization of water resources; ecohydrological modelling; ecological and hydrological coupling; ecological pattern; ecological water requirement; arid inland river basin

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Field Monitoring, GIS, Remote Sensing, Geophysical Techniques, and Hydrochemical Analysis in Groundwater Investigations

edited by

Ismael Ibraheem

and

Abdelazim Negm

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9230 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; geophysical methods; geographical information system; joint interpretation; hydrogeophysical investigations; groundwater investigation; groundwater monitoring; groundwater assessment; groundwater sustainability; aquifer characterization; sustainable water management; groundwater quality; groundwater contamination; groundwater– surface water interaction; groundwater resources; advanced groundwater modeling; investigation of aquifer heterogeneities; regional and transboundary groundwater

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

Managing Impacts on Baseflows in Streams and the Associated Impacts on Ecosystems and Water Quality

edited by

and

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5009 | Submission Open

Keywords: baseflow; groundwater-surface water interaction; baseflow-dependent ecosystems; river losses; environmental water management; water quality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Bridging the Gaps: Hydrological Research for Sustainable River Management

edited by

Mohamad Basel Al Sawaf

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4943 | Submission Open

Keywords: river modeling and prediction; climate change impacts; adaptation and flood mitigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Climate Change and Hydrological Processes

edited by

Alina Barbulescu

Romulus Costache

and

Cristian Ștefan Dumitriu

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4940 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change scenarios; extreme events; risk assessment; multivariate analysis; artificial intelligence Models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Toxicology in Freshwater Ecosystems

edited by

Marcelo Pedrosa Gomes

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3178 | Submission Open

Keywords: freshwater toxicology; ecotoxicology; water pollution; contaminant dynamics; pharmaceuticals; microplastics; nanoparticles; toxic metals; environmental stressors; ecosystem health; remediation strategies; aquatic organisms; environmental variables; conservation biology; nature-based solutions

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

Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Soil and Water Environment

edited by

Paula Alvarenga

and

Patrícia Palma

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3004 | Submission Open

Keywords: pharmaceuticals; nanomaterials; personal care products; hormones; flame retardants; plasticizers; per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs); microplastics; abiotic compartments

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

Monitoring and Remediation of Contaminants in Soil and Water

edited by

Liang Wang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1991 | Submission Open

Keywords: real-time pollution monitoring; water pollution; in-field contamination measurements; soil and water remediation

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

Agricultural Water-Land-Plant System Engineering

edited by

Haijun Liu

and

Haijun Yan

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1982 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant– water– land nexus; agricultural production vulnerability; soil– water– salt– nutrient– heat– crop system modelling; comprehensive observation means; water-saving irrigation; climate change; smart irrigation; irrigation systems management

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

Removal of Trace Organic Pollutants in Water Using Advanced Oxidation Technology

edited by

Feilong Dong

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1860 | Submission Open

Keywords: trace organic pollutants; advanced oxidation technologies; water quality; sulfate radicals; hydroxyl radicals; removal; mineralization; degradation pathway

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

Research on Geological Hazards and Geological Environment Issues Related to Mine Water

edited by

Guoqing Li

, Zheng Zhang and Jian Yang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1790 | Submission Open

Keywords: geological hazards related to mine water; mine water utilization; coal mine underground reservoir; hydrogeochemistry of mine water; water co-produced with coalbed methane/unconventional natural gas; mine water irrigation; mine water environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Water-Induced Geological Hazard Risk Assessment: Recent Advances and Prospects

edited by

Gang Mei

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1223 | Submission Open

Keywords: water-induced geological hazards; landslides; debris flows; rock avalanches; artificial intelligence; numerical modeling; remote sensing; GIS analysis; geological hazard mapping; climate change impacts

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

Spatiotemporal Evolution Patterns and Propagation Mechanisms in Drought

edited by Fei Wang,

Yanbin Li

and Kai Feng

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1164 | Submission Open

Keywords: drought indicators; drought propagation; spatiotemporal evolution; remote sensing; drought mitigation strategies

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

Science and Technology for Water Purification, 2nd Edition

edited by Yuanfeng Qi and Kai He

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1133 | Submission Open

Keywords: recycling and resources; pollutant removal; by-product remedy; process management; specific fillers and carriers; processing models; reactors; wastewater engineering; identification and analysis

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

Advances and Challenges in Hydro-Climatological Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis

edited by Md Shahid Latif and

Taha B. M. J. Ouarda

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1113 | Submission Open

Keywords: statistical and stochastic hydro-climatology; extreme events; water resources; precipitation; evapotranspiration; streamflow; drought; flood; downscaling; runoff; heat wave; wind speed; modelling extreme hydrological and meteorological events; uncertainty analysis; risk hazard assessments; climate change; anthropogenic land use; nonstationary hydro-climatological modelling; artificial intelligence; time-series analysis; water quality; non-parametric models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Analysis and Simulation of Urban Floods

edited by

Jiada Li

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1017 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban flooding; flood modeling; smart stormwater systems; hydrology; rainfall-runoff

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

Advanced Adsorption Technology for Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Daniela Fighir

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 811 | Submission Open

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

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

Soil and Water Management: Practices to Mitigate Nutrient Losses in Agricultural Watersheds, 2nd Edition

edited by

Lizhi Jia

and Yuan Tian

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 714 | Submission Open

Keywords: biogeochemical cycle; soil pollution; soil quality; conservation tillage; precision agriculture; nutrient losses; migration mechanism

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

New Insights into Sea Level Dynamics and Coastal Erosion

edited by

Thomas R. Allen

and Richard Hale

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 311 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal erosion; sea-level rise; coastal morphodynamics; coastal geomorphology; sustainable development

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

Advances in Crop Evapotranspiration and Soil Water Content

edited by

Swatantra Kumar Dubey

and

Prakash Kumar Jha

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 254 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop evapotranspiration (ET); soil water content; irrigation management; water conservation; sustainable agriculture

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

Detection of Seepage in Hydraulic Structures Using Geophysical Methods

edited by Fernando A. Monteiro Santos

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 146 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulic; hydraulic structures; seepage; electromagnetic methods; dams

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

edited by

Bommanna Krishnappan

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 115 | 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)

Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Methods in Wastewater Treatment

edited by Kijeon Nam

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 110 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; mathematical modeling; statistcal modeling; process modeling; biological and chemical modeling; modeling; computer-aided engineering; simulation; optimization; process automation

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

Marine Pollution and Ecotoxicology: Characteristics, Risks and Strategies

edited by

Kai Zhang

and Yaru Cao

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 102 | Submission Open

Keywords: pollutants; ecotoxicology; pollution remediation; environmental risk assessment; sustainable marine management

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

Sustainable and Best Available Technologies (BATs) for Wastewater and Sludge Treatment/Management

edited by Markus Starkl

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open

Keywords: assessment; best available; innovative; non-sewered; policies; sludge; sustainable; treatment

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

The Effects of Paleoclimate on the Lake Environment

edited by Yuan Yao and

Xiangzhong Li

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open

Keywords: paleotemperature; paleohydrology; paleoecology; biomarkers; climate proxies; biogeochemical cycling; biodiversity

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

Water Engineering Safety and Management

edited by Qiubing Ren, Shaowei Wang, Xudong Chen and

Siyu Chen

submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11360 | Submission Open

Keywords: water engineering; safety management; optimization design; intelligent construction; operation and maintenance; health diagnosis; risk assessment; numerical simulation; soft computing

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

New Methods and Technologies of Hydraulic Engineering Safety Assessment

edited by

Chunhui Ma

Lin Cheng

and

Jie Yang

submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9298 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulic engineering; safety monitoring; monitoring data analysis; artificial intelligence; numerical simulation; safety evaluation; risk analysis

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

The Study of Plankton in the Mediterranean Sea

edited by

Georgia Assimakopoulou

Soultana Zervoudaki

and

Ioanna Varkitzi

submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5172 | Submission Open

Keywords: Mediterranean Sea; marine ecosystem; marine biodiversity; plankton assemblages; phytoplankton; mesozooplankton; microzooplankton; bacteria; viruses; food webs; bioindicators

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

Managing Water Resources and Socio-Hydrologic Systems: New Understanding and Solutions

edited by

Dengfeng Liu

and

Yuanyuan Yang

submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2889 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; socio-hydrology; socio-hydrologic systems; socio-hydrological model; socio-ecohydrological process; trade-off; watershed scale

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Catchment Hydrology under Climate Change

edited by Jian Wang,

Lei Jiao

Beibei Zhang

and Cicheng Zhang

submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1657 | Submission Open

Keywords: catchment hydrology; hydrological process; pollutant transport; climate change; extreme precipitation; storm events

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

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 25 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 935 | 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)

Recent Advances in Flood Risk Analysis and Management Practice

edited by

Zhongfan Zhu

and

Guangwei Huang

submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 344 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban floods; flood risk; flood management; vulnerability; emergency; resilience; climate change; model; policy

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

Climate Risk Management, Sea Level Rise and Coastal Impacts

edited by

Nawin Raj

, Nathan Downs and Lila Singh-Peterson

submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 256 | 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)

Climate Change Adaptation and Water Resources Management

edited by