Water

Environmental Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows: Advanced Modelling and Artificial Intelligence Techniques

edited by

Beniamino Russo

,

Maria Teresa Yubero

and Enrique Bonet

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 193 | Submission Open

Keywords: open channel flow; artificial intelligence; water quality monitoring; contaminant detection; hydraulic and environmental control

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

Methods for Water Quality Analysis

edited by

Lázaro Adrián González Fernández

and

Juan Hidalgo

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 186 | Submission Open

Keywords: water; water quality; water monitoring; water treatment; water policies; water conservation

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

Coupling Analysis of Ecosystem Functions and Water Resources in a Changing Environment

edited by

Chuanfu Zang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 183 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; ecosystem services; climate change; water and ecosystem model; ecohydrology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Advances in Lake Sediment Pollution Control Technology

edited by

Xiang Chen

and Yuanrong Zhu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 179 | Submission Open

Keywords: endogenous pollution control of sediment; resource utilization; in-situ remediation technology; physico-chemical-biological coupled system; redox control technology; pollutant release flux monitoring

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

Integrated Approaches to Water Resources and Environmental Management: Innovations in Simulation and Impact Assessment, 2nd Edition

edited by Yuntao Wang and Xiaoli Zhang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 177 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources management; water environment assessment; hydrological modeling; simulation techniques; integrated approaches; climate change adaptation; decision support systems; stakeholder engagement

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

Digital Innovations in Integrated Water Resources Management

edited by

Minxue He

and Zhi Ding

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 176 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources management; artificial intelligence and machine learning applications; digital twin and virtual water systems; large language models for decision support

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

The Application of Advanced Iron-Based Materials in Water Pollution Control

edited by Cheng Cheng and

Wei Ren

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

Keywords: iron-based materials; (electro)Fenton; iron oxides; zero-valent iron; single-atom iron catalysts; advanced oxdiation processes (AOPs); reductive dechlorination; metal encapuslation; pilot-scale; water treatment

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

Water-Related Landslide Hazard Process and Its Triggering Events—2nd Edition

edited by Wei Liu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 161 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide; rainfall infiltration; pore water pressure; liquid– solid multiphase flow; hydrology; numerical simu-lation; risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Monitoring the Risks and Toxicity of Pharmaceuticals in Aquatic Environments

edited by Md Abdul Goni

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 154 | Submission Open

Keywords: pharmaceuticals; contaminants; monitoring; aqueous; risks; environment

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

Advances in Biological Technologies for Drinking and Wastewater Treatment, 2nd Edition

edited by

Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez

,

Barbara Muñoz-Palazon

and Alejandro Rodriguez-Sanchez

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 152 | 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)

Advanced Oxidation and Photocatalytic Approaches for Efficient Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Water Treatment, 2nd Edition

edited by Liping Wang and Changyu Lu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open

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

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

Optimization of Reservoir Operations

edited by

Hu Hu

,

Zhe Yang

and Ziyu Ding

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 133 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-objective optimization; stochastic optimization; adaptive operation; hydro– wind– photovoltaic comple-mentary operation; ecological operation; deep learning; multi-criteria decision-making; risk analysis

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

Using Economics for Sustainability, Effective Management, and Conflict Resolution in Water

edited by Puiu Lucian Georgescu and

Valentin Marian Antohi

submission deadline 24 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 14816 | Submission Open

Keywords: water economics; sustainability; water resources governance; water use efficiency; nature-based solutions; blue and green infrastructures; climate change; innovative financing for water resources; transboundary cooperation; smart technologies; AI in water management

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

Water–Energy–Carbon Nexus: Towards Integrated Solutions for Sustainable Resource Management

edited by

Guozhu Mao

submission deadline 24 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– energy– carbon nexus; deep decarbonization pathways; sustainable water management; life cycle assessment (LCA); policy; AI

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

Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Hydrogeology

edited by

Heng Lu

,

Xiaoai Dai

and Lei Ma

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5518 | Submission Open

Keywords: GIS and remote sensing; hydrology and hydrogeology; hydrological modeling and simulation; water resource management; flood and drought monitoring; climate change impact analysis

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

Hydrogeophysical Methods and Hydrogeological Models

edited by Quan Liu and

Rui Hu

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3972 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrogeophysics; groundwater modeling; aquifer characterization; uncertainty analysis; machine learning methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Sustainable Water and Sanitation Governance: Aligning Policies, Institutions and Regulation

edited by

Francisco Silva Pinto

,

Rui Cunha Marques

and

Tiago Balieiro Cetrulo

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3172 | Submission Open

Keywords: SDG 6; water governance; PIR framework; enabling environment; policy implementation; institutional settings; water services regulation; sustainable water management

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

Advances in Watershed Hydrology: Integrating Process Understanding and Predictive Modeling

edited by

Gabriel Perez

and

Nicolás Velásquez

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1495 | Submission Open

Keywords: watershed hydrology; hydrological modeling; uncertainty analysis; surface and subsurface processes; sediment transport; flood forecasting; machine learning in hydrology; hydrological signal analysis; model development and calibration; watershed-scale simulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Biological and Ecological Protection in the Freshwater Ecosystems

edited by Weijing Kong,

Shuping Wang

and

Xiao-Long Lin

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 835 | Submission Open

Keywords: riparian; phytoplankton; zooplankton; macroinvertebrate; fish; macrophyte; habitat; riverscape; freshwater ecosystem assessment; freshwater ecosystem monitoring; protection of biodiversity; freshwater ecosystem conservation; anthropogeic disturbance; freshwater ecosystem services

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

Evaluation of Microbiological Indicators for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, 2nd Edition

edited by

Anna Lenart-Boroń

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 395 | 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 Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Research on Water Resources Affected by Acid Mine Drainage

edited by

Yanqing Ding

and Fawang Zhang

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 249 | Submission Open

Keywords: acid mine drainage; water resource pollution; geochemical process; heavy metal contamination; aquatic ecological response; pollution monitoring; remediation technology; bioremediation; resource recovery; sustainable water management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Ecohydrological Modeling of Vegetation Dynamics Under Climate Change

edited by

Shouzhi Chen

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 245 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecohydrology; vegetation dynamics; climate change; ecohydrological modeling; vegetation phenology; evapotran-spiration; extreme climate events; machine learning; model-data integration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Advances in Hydrological, Hydraulic and Morphodynamic Modelling

edited by Sangaralingam Ahilan

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 237 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modelling; hydraulic modelling; morphodynamic modelling; green infrastructure; integrated catchment management; stormwater management; GEV distribution; flood frequency analysis; cloud com-puting; sediment transport

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Study on Environmental Hydrology and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Basins, Estuaries and Offshore, 2nd Edition

edited by

Biyun Guo

and

Chunyan Li

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 192 | Submission Open

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

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

Applications of Microorganisms Supported on Biochar for Soil Water Quality

edited by

Muhammad Salam

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 178 | Submission Open

Keywords: biochar– microbe composites; soil improvement; bioremediation; microbial immobilization; pollutant degradation; nutrient retention; eco-friendly strategy; agricultural sustainability; municipal waste and organic waste are the source of soil and water continents

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

Drought Risk and Human Vulnerability Under Climate Change: Assessment Frameworks for Water Security and SDGs

edited by

João Filipe Santos

and

Miguel Potes

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 176 | 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)

Impacts of Climate Change & Human Activities on Wetland Ecosystems, 2nd Edition

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

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 175 | 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)

Water Pollution Control and Resource Utilisation of Activated Sludge

edited by Justyna Koc-Jurczyk and

Jun Zhou

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open

Keywords: water pollution control; activated sludge management; circular economy; sustainable water management; wastewater treatment; organic pollutants removal; sludge resource utilisation

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

Big Data and Machine Learning for Hydrology Research: Methods, Applications and Future Directions

edited by

Epaminondas Sidiropoulos

and

Vantas Konstantinos

submission deadline 27 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2812 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; deep learning architectures; hydrological forecasting; large-sample hydrology studies; multi-source data fusion; big data; explainable AI; physics-informed machine learning; digital twins in water systems; uncertainty quantification

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

Advances in Water Management and Water Policy Research, 2nd Edition

edited by

Olcay Ünver

submission deadline 28 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1946 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated water resources management (IWRM); policy and governance; agenda-setting; public policy; maintenance and administration of water resource systems; WASH; water politics; hydro-diplomacy (water diplomacy); groundwater governance; international water law; national environmental law and regulations

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

Integrated Approaches for Sustainable Water Resources Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

edited by Janay Sagin

submission deadline 28 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1696 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood-drought mitigation; hydrology; hydrogeology; sustainable development; nature based solutions; water purification; managed aquifer recharge (MAR)

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

Pollution Process and Microbial Responses in Aquatic Environment

edited by

Fei-Fei Che

and Wei Huang

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5589 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic environment; nutrient; heavy mentals; antibiotics; pfass; migration and transformation; microbial community; influencing mechanism

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

Advancing Sustainable Hydrological Modelling and Smart Water Resource Management

edited by

Zengchuan Dong

, Wenzhuo Wang and Jitao Zhang

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2377 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; sustainable hydrological modelling; smart water resource management; machine learning; model integration; real-time decision making; data-driven approaches; adaptive basin management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Hydrodynamics Science Experiments and Simulations, 3rd Edition

edited by

Yonggang Lu

, Yandong Gu,

Wenwu Zhang

and

Yongyao Luo

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1922 | Submission Open

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

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

Management and Sustainable Control of Harmful Algal Blooms

edited by Ofir Tal and Yael Amitai

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 919 | Submission Open

Keywords: cyanoHABs; harmful algal blooms (HABs); modeling; causal inference; monitoring; ecological restoration; sus-tainable control; climate change; decision– support; remote sensing

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

The Impact of Climate Change and Land Use on Water Resources—an Issue of Environmental Global Safety, 2nd Edition

edited by

Ana-Maria Ciobotaru

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 819 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; environmental safety; impact of climate change; management of water resources

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

Effect of Biological Invasion on Aquatic Ecosystems

edited by Jay Stauffer

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 269 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic biodiversity; invasive species; biological invasions; ecosystem functioning; anthropogenic impacts; marine environment

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

Machine Learning Applications in the Water Domain, 2nd Edition

edited by

Yonggui Wang

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 143 | 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)

Sustainable and Engineered Soil–Water Systems in a Changing Climate

edited by Ankit Garg,

Pei Tai

and Rui Chen

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 94 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil– water systems; climate adaptation; slope stability; failure mechanisms; geotechnical resilience; data-driven modeling

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

Aquaculture Tailwater Treatment: Theoretical Foundations and Applied Techniques

edited by

Dapeng Li

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4251 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquaculture effluent; tailwater treatment technology; aquatic environmental protection; nitrogen and phosphorus removal; waste resource utilization; environmental microbiology; intelligent equipment; sustainable aquaculture

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

Resilience and Risk Management in Urban Water Systems

edited by

Bryan Karney

and Ahmad Malekpour

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3315 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban water resilience; risk assessment; integrated water management; infrastructure sustainability; climate adaptation; hydraulic systems; system modeling and simulation; water-energy nexus; green infrastructure; decision support systems

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

Interfacial Engineering Solutions for Enhanced Degradation of Toxic Contaminants in Water Systems

edited by

Dan Chen

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2867 | Submission Open

Keywords: toxic contaminants; interface engineering; contaminant sequestration; advanced oxidation processes; biofilm– electrode interfaces; catalytic activation kinetics; biocompatible materials; anti-fouling interfaces

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

Innovations in Irrigation: Modernizing Water Management for Efficiency and Sustainability

edited by

Attila Nagy

and Nikolett Éva Kiss

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2671 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision irrigation; smart irrigation systems; water– food– energy nexus; IoT-based water monitoring; AI and decision support tools; indoor farming; water and energy efficiency; water reuse and circularity; sustainable water governance; climate-resilient irrigation systems

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

Advances in Fluid Machinery for Sustainable Water Systems: Design, Optimization, and Integration

edited by

Leilei Ji

,

Yang Yang

and

Like Wang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1649 | Submission Open

Keywords: fluid machinery; pumps; turbines; fluid dynamics; water management; energy efficiency; sustainability; modeling and simulation

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

Water and Wastewater Management in the Context of Environmental Sustainability

edited by

Carmen Teodosiu

and

Brindusa Sluser

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1544 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced wastewater treatment; water treatment; circular economy; innovative materials; innovative processes; urban water management; nutrient recovery; wastewater recycling and re-use; emerging pollutants

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

Biological Wastewater Treatment and Its Resource Recovery

edited by

Jesus Gonzalez-Lopez

and

Bárbara Muñoz Palazón

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 753 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable wastewater treatment; biofactories; circular economy; by-product from wastewaters; bioengineering

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

Implementation of Efficient Irrigation Management for Sustainable Agriculture

edited by

Imran Ali Lakhiar

, Haofang Yan and Altaf Ali Siyal

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 679 | Submission Open

Keywords: efficient irrigation management; agricultural water productivity; precision irrigation; water-use efficiency; evapotranspiration estimation; crop water requirement; irrigation scheduling; deficit irrigation; fertigation management; soilless farming systems; controlled environment agriculture; remote sensing for irrigation; IoT-based water management; climate-resilient irrigation

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

Advances in Biogeochemistry of Estuaries

edited by

Jianwei Xing

and Bin Yang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 617 | Submission Open

Keywords: river– sea continuum; eutrophication; heavy metals; organic matter; biomarker; anthropogenic activities; migration and transformation; degradation of organic pollutants; hypoxia; acidification

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

Water Resources, Economic Development and Environment Carrying Capacity, 2nd Edition

edited by

Yang Kong

, Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu and

Lina Zhang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 616 | 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)

Remote Sensing for Eco-Environmental Monitoring and Assessment in Agricultural Watersheds

edited by

Rituraj Shukla

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 220 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; wetlands; forest ecosystems; ecohydrology; climate change; land use and land cover; machine learning; hydrological modeling; environmental monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

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