Innovative Approaches in Groundwater Pollution Source Identification and Quality Monitoring: Challenges and Future Directions
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 December 2025 | Viewed by 6
Special Issue Editor
Interests: isotope hydrology; hydrogeology; geochemistry; hydrological modeling; hydrologic and water resource modeling and simulation; disaster management
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Dear Colleagues,
Identifying the sources and pathways of groundwater pollution is a prerequisite for groundwater pollution remediation and prevention. Due to the concealment and complexity of groundwater burial conditions, this aspect faces formidable challenges. This Special Issue focuses on new technologies for exploring groundwater pollution sources and pathways, with the aim of promoting these technologies and advancements. There are various methods for exploring groundwater pollution sources and pathways, including field exploration methods such as drilling, geophysical exploration, and geochemical methods, as well as numerical simulation methods combining mathematical, chemical, and biogeochemical fields and multiple fields. In recent years, machine learning methods based on big data have shown great vitality. This Special Issue welcomes various case studies and theoretical research results on exploring groundwater pollution sources and pathways.
Prof. Dr. Lixin Yi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- groundwater pollution source identification
- water quality monitoring
- hydrogeological modeling
- big data analytics
- isotopic tracing
- data integration
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