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Water Management Strategies for Sustainable Ecosystems and Agriculture

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 995

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Ranch Cattle Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Ona, FL 33865-9706, USA
Interests: hydrologic model; surface hydrology; groundwater; water quality; climate change; best management practices

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HLV2K Engineering Ltd., Mississauga, ON L5L 1X2, Canada
Interests: groundwater sustainability assessment; groundwater vulnerability; groundwater modeling; surface water-groundwater interaction; groundwater and climate change; groundwater monitoring

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Dear Colleagues,

Water management is crucial for maintaining sustainable ecosystems, especially in the face of climate change, population growth, and pollution. Implementing strategies for water resource management under anthropogenic interventions and/or extreme climate conditions through various conservation practices, such as adaptive best management practices and geoinformatics approaches (i.e., modeling, GIS, precision agriculture, artificial intelligence (AI) and remote sensing applications), is necessary to improve the sustainability and agricultural yields of ecosystems. Several strategies have been and continue to be developed by researchers globally to effectively address current water management problems. These strategies include integrated water resource management, sustainable agricultural practices, wetland restoration and preservation, eco-friendly urban planning, pollution control measures, education and community engagement, adaptive management, climate adaptation strategies, and so on.  Implementing these strategies requires a commitment to sustainability and collaboration among all stakeholders.

This Special Issue aims to present the latest developments in the field of sustainable water management as part of the overall ecosystem, contributing to scientific knowledge in this area.

Dr. Golmar Golmohammadi
Dr. Kourosh Mohammadi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • water management
  • adaptive management
  • pollution control
  • sustainable agriculture
  • climate adaptation
  • water conservation

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Effect of Biochar, Hydrogel and Soil Liming on Nutrient Leaching in a Coarse-Textured Soil
by Joba Purkaystha, Shiv O. Prasher, Muhammad T. Afzal, Jaskaran Dhiman and Christopher Nzediegwu
Sustainability 2025, 17(12), 5396; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17125396 - 11 Jun 2025
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Nutrient leaching from agricultural fields can degrade soil fertility and groundwater quality, especially in coarse-textured soils. Use of biochar, lime, and hydrogel in these soils can enhance nutrient and water use efficiencies, thus reducing water pollution, and aiding in sustainable agricultural production. Amending [...] Read more.
Nutrient leaching from agricultural fields can degrade soil fertility and groundwater quality, especially in coarse-textured soils. Use of biochar, lime, and hydrogel in these soils can enhance nutrient and water use efficiencies, thus reducing water pollution, and aiding in sustainable agricultural production. Amending soils with biochar, lime, hydrogel, or their combinations may reduce leaching, but the effects of single versus combined amendments remain unclear. A three-year pot experiment under field conditions was conducted on a loamy sand soil to enhance water and nutrient retention capacity of this soil. Soil samples were mixed with all possible combinations of 1% biochar (B), l% lime (L), and 0.5% hydrogel (H), i.e., BL, BH, HL, and BHL. The amendments were arranged in a randomized complete block design with four blocks. The results showed that compared to control, amendments B, H, BH, HL, and BHL significantly decreased (p ≤ 0.05) nitrate-N leaching per unit biomass by 58–88%, and L, H, BH, BHL significantly reduced (p ≤ 0.05) orthophosphate-P leaching per unit biomass by 34–98%. Compared to the control, the marketable yield significantly increased (p ≤ 0.05) by 24–38% under BH, HL, and BHL in 2019, and by 17–52% under amendments B, L, H, BL, BH, HL, and BHL in 2020. These results were not seen in the first year due to soil conditioning for biochar and lime. Amendments H, BH, HL, and BHL show potential to improve water use efficiency, reduce nutrient leaching, and support sustainable crop production. Full article
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