Assessment of Groundwater Quality and Pollution Remediation

Dear Colleagues,

A scientific assessment of groundwater quality and remediation of severely polluted groundwater is one of the important issues related to human water supply security and ecological safety, especially in arid and semi-arid regions and human gathering areas. Groundwater quality is primarily influenced and controlled by natural and geological environments, such as special groundwater with high fluoride, high iodine, high arsenic, and high salt (brackish water). The quality of groundwater environments in some areas has deteriorated or even become unusable due to the input of pollutants from intensified human activities, accompanied by ecological deterioration, which has emerged as a prominent type of environmental issue. This Special Issue will provide scientific support for the protection, improvement and sustainable use of groundwater to accurately assess and understand groundwater quality, as well as identify its natural causes and potential pollution threats. Effective governance of severely contaminated groundwater is also an efficient approach to enhancing the supply guarantee of groundwater resources and improving ecological environments.

This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest research advances in the methods, technologies and practices of groundwater quality and pollution risk assessment, as well as groundwater pollution prevention control zoning and remediation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Research on hydrogeochemical processes and environmental background values of groundwater;
• Groundwater quality assessment and its genesis research at different scales, such as basins, watersheds, administrative regions or sites;
• Special research on high-fluoride, high-iodine, high-arsenic and high-salt (saline) groundwater;
• Groundwater pollution and risk assessment;
• Research on ecological risk assessment and quality standards of emerging pollutants in groundwater;
• Regional groundwater pollution prevention and control zoning;
• Research and practice on groundwater pollution remediation and control technology;
• Research on prevention, control and treatment technology of groundwater pollution in mines.

Dr. Yong Qian
Prof. Dr. Zhi Dou
Guest Editors

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