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Data-Driven Approaches for Sustainable Water Management and Flood Resilience in River Basins

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 565

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School of Civil Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Republic of Korea
Interests: non-structural measures; flood forecasting; urban drainage systems; optimization; sustainability; resilience; artificial intelligence; reliability
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Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable water management and flood resilience in river basins are very important.  Studies are required for investigation of river basin management for improving flood resilience. In addition to studies for sustainable water management techniques, studies to predict the risk of sustainable water system using data-driven approaches are also required. From this point of view, an application of various methods such as deep learning and meta-heuristic optimization algorithms will be a good way to increase the sustainability of river basin.

This Special Issue aims to collect papers focused on new research results regarding ‘Data-Driven Approaches for Sustainable Water Management and Flood Resilience in River Basins’.

This Special Issue seeks contributions spanning a broad range of topics related, but not limited to, the following:

  • Application of data-driven approaches in river basins;
  • Flood forecasting using deep learning techniques;
  • Simulation/experiment of water management;
  • Assessment of water management;
  • Resilience in water system and management.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Eui Hoon Lee
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • data-driven approaches
  • sustainable water management
  • flood resilience
  • deep learning
  • nature-based solutions
  • meta-heuristic optimization algorithm

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Augmenting Legacy Gaging Data with Emerging Datasets for Sustainable Water Management: Water Balance Analysis in the Upper Green River Basin, WY (1991–2023)
by Michael L. Follum, Joseph L. Gutenson, Mark D. Wahl and Riley C. Hales
Sustainability 2026, 18(10), 4937; https://doi.org/10.3390/su18104937 - 14 May 2026
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Water balance calculations at the watershed scale are fundamental to water resource planning and the sustainable management of limited water supplies. These calculations rely on stream and canal gaging networks operated by local, state and federal entities, whose availability has varied over time [...] Read more.
Water balance calculations at the watershed scale are fundamental to water resource planning and the sustainable management of limited water supplies. These calculations rely on stream and canal gaging networks operated by local, state and federal entities, whose availability has varied over time due to cost, staffing constraints, and limitations on suitable gaging locations. The Green River Basin (GRB) above Fontenelle Dam in Wyoming illustrates this trend, where the number of operational stream gaging sites has varied over time and the majority of locations have less than 15 years of streamflow records. Recent advancements in the ability to perform streamflow reconstruction and estimate agricultural water use offer a new avenue for estimating the water balance for watersheds with discontinuous gage observations. But the use of these datasets and approaches has not been tested. Therefore, this paper proposes and tests a novel framework that combines discontinuous streamflow observations with new datasets (OpenET, ET-Demands, and GEOGLOWS) to calculate monthly water balances in the GRB from water year 1991 to 2023. Focusing on two main test basins, the Green River and the New Fork River, the integration of modern datasets enables the successful calculation of the water balance in the GRB with good agreement with downstream gaging records, achieving a Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) of 0.88 for the New Fork River and 0.80 for the Green River. By improving the ability to quantify water balance components in data-limited basins, this framework supports more transparent water accounting and informed decision-making for sustainable water management, including irrigation planning, drought response, and long-term resource allocation in semi-arid river systems. Full article
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