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Impact of Microplastics on Aquatic Ecosystems

edited by

Jian Liu

and Changchao Li

submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6777 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics; aquatic ecosystems; plastisphere; microplastome; ecosystem function; risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)

Applications of Microalgae and Macroalgae in Water Treatment

edited by

Changliang Nie

and

Chenxi Mi

submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5508 | Submission Open

Keywords: microalgae; wastewater treatment; biomass

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

Hydroclimate Extremes: Causes, Impacts, and Mitigation Plans

edited by

Masoud Irannezhad

and

Anna-Kaisa Ronkanen

submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4722 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; compound weather/climate events; hydroclimate extremes (e.g.; drought; flood; and heatwave); land cover-land use alterations; mitigation strategies; nature-based solutions; sustainability risks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Assessment of Water Use in Livestock Production Systems and Supply Chains

edited by

Katrin Drastig

and

András Székács

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 27714 | Submission Open

Keywords: livestock water use; water productivity; water consumption; water withdrawal; water scarcity impact; water footprint analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture)

Urban Stormwater Control, Utilization, and Treatment

edited by

Jun Wang

Shouhong Zhang

and

Anita Raimondi

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16458 | Submission Open

Keywords: stormwater control; low-impact development; numerical simulation; analytical probabilistic approach; stormwater treatment; rainwater harvesting; SWMM; sponge city; stormwater quality; urban flooding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)

Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources and Water Risks, 2nd Edition

edited by

Haibo Yang

Zheng Duan

, Fei Chen and Zhiwei Li

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12698 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water resource management; drought; flood; remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)

Urban Stormwater Harvesting, and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

edited by

Dharmappa Hagare

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10643 | Submission Open

Keywords: stormwater; wastewater; harvesting; treatment; reuse; nutrients; circular economy; recycle; economics; policy; urban; water balance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)

The Impact of Climate Change and Land Use on Water Resources—an Issue of Environmental Global Safety

edited by

Ana-Maria Ciobotaru

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7095 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; environmental safety; impact of climate change; management of water resources

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Managing Water Resources Sustainably

edited by

Mariacrocetta Sambito

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5133 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; water quality sensors; monitoring; optimal positioning; source detection; contamination; illegit discharge

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

Application of Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence Technology in Watershed Flood Disaster Warning and Control

edited by Jun Guo and Yi Liu

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5038 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence technology; extreme rainfall prediction; hydrological forecasting; meteorology-hydrology-hydraulics coupling; watershed flood risk warning; digital twin technology; flood dynamic deduction

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)

Urban Sewer Systems: Monitoring, Modeling and Management

edited by

Jiuling Li

and

Keshab Sharma

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4810 | Submission Open

Keywords: sewer; hydraulics; modeling; process optimization; real-time control; sewer management; monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)

Freshwater Species: Status, Monitoring and Assessment

edited by

Dariusz Halabowski

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4742 | Submission Open

Keywords: freshwater species; monitoring and ssessment; conservation; biodiversity; pollution assessment; anthropogenic impact; species indicator; invasive species; environmental emergency; management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)

Water Pollution Monitoring, Modelling and Management

edited by

Rongkui Su

and

Yiting Luo

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4347 | Submission Open

Keywords: water pollution; monitoring technology; intelligent warning; water quality model; artificial intelligence; pollution prevention and control; water resource management; wastewater resource utilization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

Non-Point Source Pollution and Water Resource Protection

edited by Xia Shen

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4304 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-point source pollution; drivers; critical source areas; best management practices; model optimisation; water resource protection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

Stable Isotopes as Groundwater Discharge Tracers: Recent Developments

edited by

Jorge Jódar Bermúdez

and Albert Soler

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4232 | Submission Open

Keywords: stable isotope; environmental tracer; fractionation; recharge; transit time; groundwater origin; anthropogenic impact; denitrification; sulphate reduction; salinisation; contamination; remediation; pollutant sources

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advances in Membrane Technologies and Strategies for Water Treatment and Water Reuse

edited by Weibin Cai and

Yuanhui Tang

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3084 | Submission Open

Keywords: membrane separation; membrane distillation; ion exchange membrane; desalination; wastewater treatment; zero-liquid discharge

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Innovative Nanomaterials and Surfaces for Water Treatment

edited by

Chiara Lo Porto

and

Vincenza Armenise

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3049 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanomaterials; surfaces; photocatalysis; pollutant degradation; heavy metal removal; adsorbers; membranes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Membrane Technology for Desalination and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Jinlong Wang

, Han Zhang and

Daliang Xu

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2615 | Submission Open

Keywords: membrane separation; membrane distillation; ion exchange membrane; desalination; wastewater treatment; crystallization; zero-liquid discharge

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

The Blue Economy: Enhancing Marine Economic Security for Sustainable Development

edited by

Shuhong Wang

and Ye-Cheng Wang

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1917 | Submission Open

Keywords: blue economy; marine economic security; ocean governance; fisheries; marine transportation; coastal development; marine biodiversity; ocean health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Sustainable Transformation of Aquaculture in Marine Environments

edited by

John A. Theodorou

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1132 | Submission Open

Keywords: LCA; marine aquaculture; low trophic; IMTA; fish; invertabrates; ecosystem services; carbon footprint; risk management; blue transformation; green deal

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture)

Radionuclide Removal from Contaminated Water: Strategies and Challenges

edited by Hanyu Wu and Jingjing Wang

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 561 | Submission Open

Keywords: radionuclide decontamination; water contamination; radioactive pollution control; radionuclide removal and recovery; risk assessment; fate and transport; remediation strategies; aquatic environment; sustainable strategies; resource utilization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

Applications of Catalytic Ozonation in Wastewater Treatment

edited by Lei Yuan, Pengwei Yan and Jimin Shen

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 449 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation technology; ozone; catalytic ozonation; water purification; organic pollutants; reaction mechanisms; catalysts; water quality improvement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Advances in Research on Membrane Filtration Technology in Water Treatment

edited by Danyal Rehman

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 285 | Submission Open

Keywords: water treatment; membrane filtration; novel membranes; membrane separations; computational modelling; sustainable purification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Advances in Hydrodynamics and Its Interaction with Large-Scale Offshore Structures

edited by

Qinghe Fang

, Azhen Kang and Xiaodong Bai

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 274 | Submission Open

Keywords: offshore structures; hydrodynamic loads; coastal bridges; offshore photovoltaics; offshore wind turbines; fluid– structure interaction; structural safety

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Connecting the Effectiveness of Surface Water Control Measures to Worldwide Regulatory Requirements

edited by

Min-cheng Tu

and

Hong-Yuan Huo

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open

Keywords: low impact development (LID); best management practice (BMP); stormwater control measures (SCM); water quality; regulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)

Microplastic Pollution and Ecotoxicology in Aquatic Ecosystems

edited by Sherif Ismail and Mohamed Mohsen

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastic contamination; aquatic pollution; ecotoxicology; marine ecosystems; freshwater ecosystems; wastewater treatment; toxicity of microplastics; microplastic fate and transport; environmental impact of microplastics; microplastic bioaccumulation; interaction of microplastics and pollutants; plastic degradation in water

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

Soil and Water Contaminants: Challenging Threats to Ecosystems and Agriculture

edited by

Kashif Akhtar

and

Haiyan Wang

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open

Keywords: contaminants; heavy metals; GHG emission; nutrient and energy recovery; biofertilizer; fate; remediation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)

Machine Learning Models for Flood Hazard Assessment

edited by

Álvaro Sordo-Ward

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 164 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; artificial intelligent; flood hazard; flood forecasting; flood warning; flood risk; models; real time; monitoring systems; climate change; new sensors; mitigation strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)

Advances in Water and Stormwater Networks: Modelling and Pollutant Degradation

edited by

Cong Li

Kejia Zhang

and

Jiajia Fan

submission deadline 23 May 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9731 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban water contamination; disinfection byproducts; advanced oxidation; bioremediation; network leakage simulation; urban hydrology and modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)

Advanced Technology for Desalination and Water Purification, 2nd Edition

edited by

Vasileios Bartzis

and

Ioannis Sarris

submission deadline 25 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3251 | Submission Open

Keywords: electric field; ion drift; desalination; water purification; heavy metals; low-cost purification; ecosystem services; water quality; solar distiller

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Impact of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystems

edited by

Md Khurshid Alam Bhuiyan

submission deadline 25 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3174 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; global change; marine pollution; fisheries and food security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)

Theory and Technology of Water-Induced Geological Disaster Prevention and Water Resource Utilization in Mines

edited by Helong Gu,

Fan Feng

and Yuan Zhao

submission deadline 25 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1789 | Submission Open

Keywords: water-induced geological disasters; utilization of water resources; mine water treatment; fundamental mechanics theory of water-bearing coal rocks; surrounding rock water disasters; loess collapsibility; soil liquefaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)

Dispersion in Rivers, Estuaries and Costal Zones

edited by

Piotr Zima

submission deadline 25 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 938 | Submission Open

Keywords: dispersion; parameters of dispersion; rivers; estuaries; costal zones

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)

Application of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Purification

edited by

Yi Ren

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2458 | Submission Open

Keywords: water purification; wastewater treatment; water restoration; emerging contaminants; advanced oxidation processes; Fenton-like oxidation; photocatalysis; electrocatalysis; ozonation; non-thermal plasma; electron beam

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

The Impacts of Human Activities on the Functional Ecology of Coastal Microbial Communities

edited by Qiuzhen Wang, Xinlong An and

Guangyi Wang

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1054 | Submission Open

Keywords: human activities; microbial communities; marine pollution; marine conservation; climate change; eutrophication; metagenomics; coastal ecosystems; marine ecological balance; deep sea

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Application of Machine Learning in Hydrogeology

edited by Giha Lee and

Xuan-Hien Le

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 277 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; flood forecasting; precipitation bias correction; hydrological modeling; radar rainfall estimation; morphological and hydrological changes; sediment transport; remote sensing; data assimilation; deep learning; ensemble methods; uncertainty quantification

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)

The New Nexus: The Interconnection of Climate Change, Source Water Protection, and Public Health

edited by

Carolyn Rodak

, Shannon Roback and Richard Weisman

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water quality; disinfection byproducts; drinking water; public health; source water protection; water infracture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Coastal and Marine Governance and Protection

edited by

Celene B. Milanes

Camilo M. Botero

and Daniel O. Suman

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 20590 | Submission Open

Keywords: governability and governance; community engagement; Anthropocene era; coastal cities; integrated coastal zone management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Urban Flood Frequency Analysis and Risk Assessment

edited by

Khaled Haddad

and

Ataur Rahman

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 8011 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood frequency analysis; Bayesian; regional flood frequency analysis; distributions; uncertainty; modelling; annual maximum data; peaks-over-threshold data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Hydrodynamics in Pressurized Pipe Systems

edited by

Kamil Urbanowicz

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7659 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrodynamics; hydraulics; pressurized water pipelines; transient flow; unsteady flow

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)

Microplastics in Water Environments: Sources, Transport and Degradation

edited by

Sabina Ziembowicz

and

Małgorzata Kida

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2259 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics pollution in water environments; point and nonpoint sources of microplastics; environmental distribution; fate; and transport of microplastics; definition of microplastics and international regulations; health effects of microplastic exposures; transformation of microplastics in the aquatic environment; abiotic and biotic aging of microplastics; methods for the analysis of microplastics in the water environment; technologies for removal of microplastics; scientific perspective on microplastics in nature and society

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

New Methods and Technologies of Urban Flood Forecasting, Risk Assessment and Response

edited by Ganggang Zuo and Jiancang Xie

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1827 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban flood; flood forecasting; risk assessment; artificial intelligence; flood response

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Advances in Research on Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soil and Water

edited by Lin Guo

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 655 | Submission Open

Keywords: phytoremediation; soil; water; labortory studies; field applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)

Water Pollutants and Human Health: Challenges and Perspectives

edited by Simon Jackson and

João Brandão

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 391 | Submission Open

Keywords: biomarkers; endotoxin; fungal contaminants; AMR genes; antimicrobials; microplastics; emerging pathogens

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and One Health)

Remote Sensing Application in Support of Water-Soil-Plant Relationships

edited by Genghong Wu and Yi Zeng

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 210 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water– soil– plant relationships; soil moisture; vegetation monitoring; hydrological modeling; precision agriculture; uavs; satellite imagery; climate change; data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)

Numerical and Experimental Methods, Data Analyses, Digital Twin, IoT Machine Learning and AI in Water Sciences

edited by

Junye Wang

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 171 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; water quality; biodiversity; modelling; simulation; integration; monitoring; data analyses; digital twin; IoT machine learning and AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)

Application of Membrane-Based Technology in Water Treatment

edited by

Xiaobin Tang

and

Binghan Xie

submission deadline 10 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8188 | Submission Open

Keywords: water and wastewater treatment-based membrane technology; engineering application-based membrane technology; membrane bioreactor; membrane fouling; membrane material preparation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Watershed Hydrology and Management under Changing Climate

edited by Hongbo Zhang

submission deadline 10 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5302 | Submission Open

Keywords: cliamte change; hydrology modeling and forecasting; hydrological connectivity; groundwater– surface water interaction; ecohydrology; socio-hydrology; digital watershed; environmental flow; drought and flood risk management; integrated water resources management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Effect of Human Activities on Marine Ecosystems

edited by Xiyang Zhang and Xian Sun

submission deadline 10 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2457 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine ecosystems; human activities; biodiversity; pollution; overfishing; protection; restoration; marine protected areas; management strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)

Modeling and Monitoring Water Quality Management in Support of Public Health

edited by

Jianyong Wu

submission deadline 10 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1956 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; GIS; remote sensing; GeoAI; emerging contaminants; public health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

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