Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Pollution-Driven, Persistent, and Emerging Threats to Urban Surface Water Quality
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 3
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water quality; harmful algae; fisheries science; aquatic toxicology; endocrine disruption
Interests: water quality; water pollution; aquatic organism; aquatic ecosystem; bioremediation
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Dear Colleagues,
For millenia, humans have settled near sources of water to support needs such as drinking, agriculture, and sanitation. As these settlements grew into larger communities and complex urban centers, the resulting pressures on local water sources have often led to environmental degradation and public health challenges. While some of these issues have existed since ancient times, others have emerged more recently as a result of modern industrial and technological activities.
This Special Issue of Water invites original research articles and comprehensive reviews that address pollution-driven, persistent, and emerging threats to the quality of urban or urban-influenced surface waters. Topics of interest include the following:
- Nutrient enrichment and eutrophication;
- Harmful algal blooms;
- Waterborne pathogens;
- Emerging contaminants of concern (e.g., per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, micro- and nanoplastics, engineered nanomaterials);
- The harm these water quality issues pose to the integrity and ecosystem services of affected water bodies;
- Strategies for preventing or reducing these threats;
- Other relevant topics that advance our understanding of the challenges and solutions related to surface water quality in urban or urban-influenced environments.
We look forward to your contributions to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Reynaldo Patiño
Prof. Dr. Yonghong Bi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban surface waters
- eutrophication
- harmful algal blooms
- waterborne pathogens
- emerging contaminants
- ecosystem services
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