Integrated Hydrological and Water Quality Approaches for Assessing and Mitigating Pollution in River, Lake and Reservoir Basins
A special issue of Hydrology (ISSN 2306-5338). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources and Risk Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 26
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Interests: hydrology; water protection; environmental protection
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Interests: hydrology and catchment processes; water quality assessment and indices; environmental monitoring and data analysis; river basin management
Interests: hydrology; surface water; water quality assessment; water pollution; water conservation; water legislation; water resources management
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Interests: hydrology; water quality; mathematical modeling; statistical analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water quality has a crucial role in all aspects of human life and ecosystems survival. Despite their significance, surface water bodies, such as lakes and reservoirs, are endangered by various natural and anthropogenic pollution sources. Urbanization, intensive agriculture, and climate change are placing increasing pressure on the ecological status and long-term sustainability of rivers, lakes, and reservoirs worldwide. These stressors alter hydrological regimes, enhance nutrient and pollutant inputs, and complicate the management of freshwater resources. Addressing such complex challenges requires integrated approaches that link hydrological processes with water-quality dynamics across entire catchments and river basin systems. Assessment of water quality status by applying advanced methods is necessary for further improvement of the current state and recommendation of relevant measures for prevention from further deterioration and pollution mitigation.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights about the water quality status of rivers, lakes and reservoirs worldwide, implementation of various methods and models for water quality assessment, pollution mitigation and to recommend possible solutions for adequate management of surface water resources. The focus is on research that combines hydrological modelling, water quality assessment, and watershed monitoring to improve the understanding of pollution sources, nutrient loading, and transport pathways in surface waters. Both methodological and applied contributions are relevant, including modelling frameworks, monitoring-based analyses, decision-support tools, and case studies of rivers, lakes, and reservoir basins.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Surface water quality monitoring, assessments and forecasting
- Modelling and quantifying point and diffuse pollution sources in river, lake and reservoir basins
- Impact of water quality status on aquatic ecosystems and human activities
- Ecological status evaluation and responses to hydrological variability and water quality dynamics
- Pollution mitigation strategies
- Nature-based solutions for water quality protection and improvement.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Dejana Jakovljević
Dr. Dragana Milijašević Joksimović
Dr. Ana Milanović Pešić
Prof. Dr. Alina Bărbulescu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water quality monitoring and assessment
- diffuse and pollution sources
- nutrient loading
- pollution mitigation
- ecological status
- nature based solutions
- water quality modelling
- river, lake, reservoirs basins
- integrated water resources management
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