Sustainable Water Supply and Drainage Systems: Design, Modeling, and Reliability

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable water supply and drainage systems play a crucial role in ensuring public health, environmental protection, and socio-economic development. Growing urbanization, climate change, aging infrastructure, and increasing demands for water services pose significant challenges to the design, operation, and long-term reliability of water-related infrastructure systems. Addressing these challenges requires innovative engineering solutions, advanced modelling approaches, and integrated management strategies grounded in sustainability principles.

This Special Issue focuses on sustainable water supply and drainage systems, emphasizing their design, modelling, and reliability assessment. It aims to bring together recent scientific advances related to water distribution networks, wastewater and stormwater systems, and their interactions with the soil–groundwater environment. Particular attention is given to system resilience, risk assessment, failure analysis, and methods for improving operational safety and reliability under changing environmental and urban conditions.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: innovative and sustainable design of water supply and drainage systems; hydraulic and hydrological modelling; reliability, vulnerability, and resilience assessment of water infrastructure; failure detection and classification; leakage and infiltration processes; soil–water–infrastructure interactions; smart monitoring systems; and decision-support tools for sustainable water management.

We welcome original research articles, review papers, and case studies employing theoretical analyses, numerical modelling, laboratory and field investigations, and practical engineering applications. By bringing together contributions from diverse disciplines, this Special Issue seeks to support the development of reliable, resilient, and sustainable water supply and drainage systems in line with the goals of Sustainability and sustainable water management.

We warmly invite you to submit your latest work to this Special Issue and contribute to advancing sustainable water infrastructure solutions.

Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Iwanek
Guest Editor

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