Water Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2025) | Viewed by 11589
Special Issue Editors
Interests: eutrophication; cyanobacterial blooms; ecological remediation; biogeochemistry; sediment; aquatic ecology
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Interests: conservation biology; population ecology; community ecology; biodiversity; food web structure; Lake Taihu
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Access to safe and sufficient water directly affects our health and quality of life. Due to industrial pollution, agricultural pollution, urban drainage, etc., the freshwater ecosystem has been confronted with eutrophication, blackening, mal-odor, heavy metal pollution, and other issues, which have seriously affected the quality of the urban ecological environment and the living environment of residents. This Special Issue of Water focuses on the current state of research on water pollution control, especially regarding the ecological restoration of degraded lakes, rivers, ponds, lagoons, etc., for the sustainable management of both urban and rural waters.
Ecological restoration techniques for improving water quality involve a mixture of physical, chemical, and technological methods. These include dredging, flushing, aeration, adsorption, disinfection and phytoremediation, and microbial remediation. The proper assemblage of multiple techniques is of practical importance to ensure the success of restoration and to lead to long-term stability. Innovation in materials and equipment, the revealing of mechanisms and pathways, and the monitoring and evaluation of water and ecological parameters have brought about continuous developments and research hotspots for the ecological restoration of polluted water.
This Special Issue aims to gather high-quality papers with findings that emphasize different aspects of water pollution control and ecological restoration.
Prof. Dr. Ruiming Han
Dr. Xin Leng
Guest Editors
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