Sustainable Strategies for Improving Water Quantity and Quality in Anthropogenically Transformed Areas
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2025) | Viewed by 2401
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrology; limnology; water management; water condition changes; impact of anthroporepression on water resources; water protection and reclamation
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Dear Colleagues,
The availability of high-quality water is becoming an increasing challenge for mankind, especially in developing countries and those with low documented water resources, and the observed effects climate change, which manifests in higher air temperatures, increased evaporation, the lengthening of the growing season, or changes in the volume and distribution of precipitation and the disappearance of snow cover, is exacerbating water deficits in many regions of the world. On the other hand, the factors that determine the state and quality of water are human-induced activities. The sealing of urban areas, the land reclamation of agricultural land, mining drainage, the abstraction of surface and groundwater for economic and municipal purposes, agricultural irrigation, and other human activities disturb water relations not only in a given area, but also affect communities and nature in the lower parts of rivers whose catchments have been transformed. In addition to the quantity of water, water quality is also important, which is deteriorating in many parts of the world as a result of the influx of industrial and agricultural pollutants, which, in the context of increasingly higher water temperatures, cause accelerations in the eutrophication process in rivers and water bodies and, in many places, are responsible for long-term algal blooms, causing natural and economic losses. In the context of these phenomena and the ever-increasing demand for water, research aimed at studying the impact of environmental factors on the formation of the quantity and quality of water resources, especially in anthropogenically transformed areas, and which promotes ideas and solutions aimed at improving this state of affairs, is particularly important. With a view to expanding the horizons of knowledge on the above-mentioned issues and promoting research undertaken to improve the availability of high-quality water for people and nature in the most transformed areas, we have endeavored to collect and present this research in the form of a Special Issue for the Sustainability journal entitled ‘Sustainable strategies for improving water quantity and quality in anthropogenically transformed areas’.
Dr. Bogumił Nowak
Prof. Dr. Agnieszka E. Ławniczak-Malińska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water relations transformation
- water deficits
- water availability
- water pollution
- eutrophication
- sustainable water resources management
- water quality improvement
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