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Dear Colleagues,

This special issue aims to enhance knowledge of groundwater quality and groundwater protection in the academia. Global climate crisis significantly affects water cycle systems and alter the quality of groundwater resources that are essential for survival. Advanced strategies are needed to secure environmentally sound groundwater resources for the next generation against natural and artificial threats. Hydrogeologists, policy maker, engineer and ecologist who interested in this special issue can now submit their manuscripts for the protection and sustainable use of groundwater resources.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:

1) Sustainable management of groundwater resources

(2) Regional aquifer systems under climate crisis

(3) Advanced technology and strategies for sustainable use of groundwater

(4) Tracing flow systems using chemical and isotopic indicators

(5) Groundwater quality and contamination

(6) What’s next with emerging contaminants?

(7) Ecohydrology variability

(8) Groundwater remediation

(9) Groundwater-surface water interactions

(10) Biogeochemistry of hyporheic zones

(11) Groundwater sustainability: Engineering approaches and perspectives

(12) Groundwater Policy

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Heejung Kim
Guest Editor

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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. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

groundwater quality
groundwater sustainability
sustainable groundwater management
groundwater remediation
groundwater protection
water policy

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Advances in Groundwater Quality and Protection for Sustainability

by Heejung Kim

Sustainability 2022, 14(3), 1707; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031707 - 1 Feb 2022

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The impact type and magnitude of global phenomena, including climate change, on water resources around the world usually become discernible with time difference [...] Full article

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Hydroecology of Argyroneta aquatica’s Habitat in Hantangang River Geopark, South Korea

by Jinah Moon, Heejung Kim and Han-Sun Ryu

Sustainability 2022, 14(9), 4988; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14094988 - 21 Apr 2022

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The water spider (Argyroneta aquatic) is the only known spider to live a fully aquatic life. Therefore, it has been the subject of a series of studies on various aspects of its unique biology such as its reproductive behavior, sexual dimorphism, physiology, genetics, and silk. However, there have been relatively few studies on the hydroecology of where water spiders live. The water spider habitat in Eundae-ri, Yeoncheon is the only habitat for A. aquatica, a globally rare species, in South Korea. In this region, the water level of the wetland is automatically adjusted to groundwater owing to continued drying. Here, the surface water, wetland, and groundwater near the A. aquatica habitat were studied using hydrochemical, microbiological, and correlation analyses. The hydrochemical properties—water temperature, pH, electrical conductivity, dissolved oxygen (DO), oxidation reduction potential, and turbidity—of the surface water and wetland were similar. The Piper diagrams revealed that the wetlands, surface water, and most of the groundwater portrayed Ca-HCO₃-type properties, whereas only areas where the water level of the wetland was controlled displayed Na-HCO₃-type properties. Furthermore, the NO₃ content was too low to be detected in the wetland, indicating clean and non-polluted water conditions; additionally, heavier oxygen-hydrogen isotopes were observed because these regions were climatically affected by the wetland. The dominant bacteria were Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Cyanobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Nitrospirae. The correlation analysis revealed that the major environmental control factors of the A. aquatica habitat were DO, temperature, and pH, and the related bacteria were Cyanobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Verrucomicrobia. Full article

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