Surface Water Management: Recent Advances and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Surface water management has undergone a paradigm shift in recent history, transitioning from extensive methods of land drainage to a more integrated form of ‘living with water’ in our built and agricultural environments. These integrated methods of surface water management include sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) and wider nature-based solutions (NbS) such as natural flood management (NFM). Such techniques have been applied in both rural and urban locations, across multiple hydrological scales with the aim of providing a multitude of ecosystem services, from reducing flood risk to improving water quality and increasing biodiversity and public amenity. Much effort and innovations are ongoing to overcome challenges in how we design, assess and value such methods of surface water management in the challenging context of population growth, urban expansion, habitat loss and degradation, agricultural intensification and climate change.

I hope this Special Issue gives you the opportunity to highlight your excellent research and/or your valuable industry contribution to the field of surface water management. This can include your research into novel surface water management applications, as well as continued challenges and evidence gaps that need to be addressed for wider adoption.

We invite you to join the discussion that we are currently hosting by publishing either a research article or review paper. We encourage you to check out the Special Issue website at the following link for our greeting message: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/surface_water_management

The submission deadline is 31 November 2021, but you can send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to us in advance.

Prof. Susanne Charlesworth
Dr. Tom Lavers
Dr. Craig Lashford
Guest Editors

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