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Announcements
13 October 2025
Water | Notable Papers in 2024–2025 from the “Water Resource Management, Policy and Governance” Section

We invite you to read the following highly cited articles published in the “Water Resource Management, Policy and Governance” Section of Water (ISSN: 2073-4441) from 2024 and 2025.
1. “Decolonizing Indigenous Drinking Water Challenges and Implications: Focusing on Indigenous Water Governance and Sovereignty”
by Margot Hurlbert, John Bosco Acharibasam, Ranjan Datta, Sharon Strongarm and Ethel Starblanket
Water 2024, 16(5), 748; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16050748
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/5/748
2. “Reuse of Treated Wastewater for Crop Irrigation: Water Suitability, Fertilization Potential, and Impact on Selected Soil Physicochemical Properties”
by Solomon Ofori, David Kwesi Abebrese, Iveta Růžičková and Jiří Wanner
Water 2024, 16(3), 484; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16030484
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/3/484
3. “A Machine Learning Approach to Monitor the Physiological and Water Status of an Irrigated Peach Orchard under Semi-Arid Conditions by Using Multispectral Satellite Data”
by Pasquale Campi, Anna Francesca Modugno, Gabriele De Carolis, Francisco Pedrero Salcedo, Beatriz Lorente and Simone Pietro Garofalo
Water 2024, 16(16), 2224; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16162224
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/16/2224
4. “How Environmental Regulation Affects Rural Residents’ Willingness to Pay for Sustainable Domestic Sewage Treatment: Mediating and Interaction Effects”
by Jian Jiao, Zihong Yang, Boyang Shi, Thomas Dogot, Hossein Azadi, Ke Xu and Changbin Yin
Water 2024, 16(5), 761; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16050761
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/5/761
5. “Challenges and Innovations in Urban Drainage Systems: Sustainable Drainage Systems Focus”
by Anna Pia Monachese, María Teresa Gómez-Villarino, Jesús López-Santiago, Ernesto Sanz, Andrés F. Almeida-Ñauñay and Sergio Zubelzu
Water 2025, 17(1), 76; https://doi.org/10.3390/w17010076
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17/1/76
6. “Climate Change Impacts on Nitrate Leaching and Groundwater Nitrate Dynamics Using a Holistic Approach and Med-CORDEX Climatic Models”
by Aikaterini Lyra, Athanasios Loukas, Pantelis Sidiropoulos and Lampros Vasiliades
Water 2024, 16(3), 465; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16030465
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/3/465
7. “Integrated Subsurface Hydrologic Modeling for Agricultural Management Using HYDRUS and UZF Package Coupled with MODFLOW”
by Efthymios Chrysanthopoulos, Martha Perdikaki, Konstantinos Markantonis and Andreas Kallioras
Water 2024, 16(22), 3297; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16223297
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/22/3297
8. “Removing Plastic Waste from Rivers: A Prototype-Scale Experimental Study on a Novel River-Cleaning Concept”
by Yannic Fuchs, Susanne Scherbaum, Richard Huber, Nils Rüther and Arnd Hartlieb
Water 2024, 16(2), 248; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16020248
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/2/248
9. “Sea-Level Rise and Saltwater Intrusion: Economic Estimates of Impacts of Nature-Based Mitigation Policies Under Uncertainty”
by Dat Q. Tran and Kieu N. Le
Water 2025, 17(9), 1355; https://doi.org/10.3390/w17091355
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17/9/1355
10. “Reducing the Impacts of Withdrawals on the Water Distribution in Main Irrigation Canals Based on a Modified Smith Predictor Control Scheme”
by Aissa Mehallel and Vicente Feliu-Batlle
Water 2025, 17(3), 373; https://doi.org/10.3390/w17030373
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17/3/373
11. “Addressing the Uncertainties in the Environmental Analysis, Modeling, Source and Risk Assessment of Emerging Contaminants”
by Wenxing Zhao, Bin Wang and Gang Yu
Water 2025, 17(2), 215; https://doi.org/10.3390/w17020215
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17/2/215
12. “Multi-Objective Model for Efficient, Equitable, and Sustainable Water Allocation Under Uncertainty: A Case Study of Namhan River Basin, South Korea”
by Flavia D. Frederick and Doosun Kang
Water 2025, 17(8), 1230; https://doi.org/10.3390/w17081230
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17/8/1230
13. “Impact Assessment of Climate Change on Water Supply to Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan”
by Tsung-Yu Lee, Yun-Pan Lai, Tse-Yang Teng and Chi-Cheng Chiu
Water 2024, 16(12), 1746; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16121746
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/12/1746
14. “Present and Future Energy Potential of Run-of-River Hydropower in Mainland Southeast Asia: Balancing Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability”
by Saman Maroufpoor and Xiaosheng Qin
Water 2025, 17(15), 2256; https://doi.org/10.3390/w17152256
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17/15/2256
15. “Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability to Seawater Intrusion Using GALDIT, SITE and SIVI Methods in Laspias River Coastal Aquifer System, NE Greece”
by Christina Pliaka, Ioannis Gkiougkis, Dimitrios Karasogiannidis, Panagiotis Angelidis, Andreas Kallioras and Fotios-Konstantinos Pliakas
Water 2024, 16(10), 1341; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16101341
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/10/1341