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Water Pollution Monitoring, Control, and Prevention

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2025) | Viewed by 756

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Business School, Hunan First Normal University, Changsha, China
Interests: resource; environmental waste; high value utilization; environmental management; life cycle; water pollution control; emerging organic pollutants; environmental assessment; ecological restoration; adsorption; catalysis; water pollution; heavy metal
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Dear Colleagues,

The frequency of water pollution incidents and their associated hazards have created new demands for governments to strengthen emergency response capacity. With this, management departments and environmental experts are committed to developing novel water pollution monitoring and early warning response technologies to ensure water quality safety. Furthermore, with the development of big data, artificial intelligence, and environmental monitoring technology, the current water monitoring infrastructure is becoming increasingly robust, and the accumulation of monitoring data continues to grow. The conditions for implementing intelligent monitoring and early warning supported by big data are now established. In a sudden pollution monitoring–early warning–tracing technology system, key technological research areas include abnormal sudden-pollution warning; optimizing the layout of emergency monitoring sections; and initiating the identification and risk analysis of emergency response projects. These are pressing research areas for intelligent monitoring and warning of water pollution. This Special Issue aims to evaluate and analyze the latest research progress in water pollution monitoring and early warning, modeling and management, and prevention and control—particularly in water pollution monitoring, modelling, and management based on big data and artificial intelligence.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Water pollution monitoring technology;
  • Water quality prediction model;
  • Water resource management;
  • Water pollution prevention and control.

Dr. Rongkui Su
Dr. Yiting Luo
Guest Editors

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Keywords

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

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Physicochemical and Microbiological Qualities of the Sundays River Estuary in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
by Noluvuyo Mngcutsha, Kingsley Ehi Ebomah, Abiodun Olagoke Adeniji, Anthony Ifeanyi Okoh and Omobola Oluranti Okoh
Water 2026, 18(9), 992; https://doi.org/10.3390/w18090992 - 22 Apr 2026
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Freshwater scarcity is a major global issue faced by various regions, and the most common portable water sources globally are estuaries, canals, dams, lakes, and rivers. Existing water resources function as the best sinks for the frequent release of effluents from industrial and [...] Read more.
Freshwater scarcity is a major global issue faced by various regions, and the most common portable water sources globally are estuaries, canals, dams, lakes, and rivers. Existing water resources function as the best sinks for the frequent release of effluents from industrial and residential activities. This common practice often results in water pollution, a deterioration in marine biodiversity, and possible health risks for human populations. This study employed standard analytical methods in assessing the physicochemical and microbial characteristics of water samples collected from the Sundays River estuary in Eastern Cape Province (ECP), South Africa (SA). Microbiological assessment revealed that during the spring season, presumptive Escherichia coli (E. coli) colony counts were 1 cfu/100 mL, while total coliforms (TCs) and fecal coliforms (FCs) were recorded at 42.67 cfu/100 mL and 1 cfu/100 mL, respectively. In the summer season, fecal coliform (FC) counts reached 3.5 cfu/100 mL, while Enterococcus levels were higher, ranging up to 77.75 cfu/100 mL. Furthermore, the average standards of physicochemical parameters assessed in water obtained from both spring and summer seasons ranged as follows: pH (8.71–9.31), temperature (20.98–22.21 °C), turbidity (10–35.55 FNU), total alkalinity (22.25–94.00 mg/L), oxidation–reduction potential (ORP) (8.05–151.6 mV), electrical conductivity (EC) (13,915–40,260 uS/cm), salinity (8.07–25.78 psu), dissolved oxygen (DO) (6.79–7.39 mg/L), total dissolved solids (TDSs) (6960.6–20,125 mg/L), and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) (0.11–2.94 mg/L). The levels of TDS, EC, turbidity, and salinity in the Sundays River estuary water exceeded the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines of 2017, rendering the water unfit for even recreational purposes. Additionally, the bacterial levels identified in this study were above the values set by the South Africa Department of Water Affairs (SA-DWAF). The identified microorganisms are perceived as essential indicators of fecal contamination and have the potential to multiply in the environment. Possible pollution may be a result of various municipal effluents consistently discharged into the waterbody. Full article
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