Water

Optimal Management and Hydrological Simulation of Water and Soil Resources Under Climate Change

edited by Chongfeng Ren,

and Xiao Liu

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1410 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources’ management; water resources’ carrying capacity; agricultural water productivi-ty; uncertainty; hydrological modeling; soil infiltration simulation; decision support system; machine learning; flash flood disaster assessment; flood risk management; drought assessment; extreme weather

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)

Optimal Operation of Pumped Storage Hydropower Units and Renewable Energy

edited by Hao Zhang and

Yang Li

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1373 | Submission Open

Keywords: pumped storage hydropower units; renewable energy; hybrid energy system flexibility; multi-objective dynamic scheduling; low-carbon dispatch strategies; AI-driven hydropower forecasting; transient process control; hydro-meteorological uncertainty management; energy storage synergy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water-Energy Nexus)

Watershed Ecohydrology and Water Quality Modeling

edited by Tao Huang

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 875 | Submission Open

Keywords: watershed; ecohydrology; hydrologic modeling; water quality; contaminants

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling in Aquifer Systems: 2nd Edition

edited by

Zbigniew Kabala

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 788 | Submission Open

Keywords: modeling; borehole tests; laboratory tests; tracer tests; aquifer remediation; aquifer characterization; vertical circula-tion wells; geothermal resources

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advanced Technologies for Water Erosion Mapping and Environmental Change Detection

edited by

Ben Jarihani

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 679 | Submission Open

Keywords: water erosion; land degradation; environmental change detection; soil erosion mapping; digital elevation models (DEMs); gully erosion; sediment transport; erosion modelling; LiDAR and UAV photogrammetry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)

Energy Use Assessment and Management in Wastewater Systems

edited by

Catarina Nunes Jorge

and Maria do Céu Almeida

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 465 | Submission Open

Keywords: carbon footprint reduction in wastewater systems; energy efficiency; energy monitoring and optimization; energy recovery; renewable energy; sustainable wastewater management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water-Energy Nexus)

Microplastics in Water and Wastewater

edited by

Ewa Liwarska-Bizukojc

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 167 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic environment; bioplastics; ecotoxicity; groundwater; microplastics; drinking water; removal efficiency; sludge; surface water; wastewater

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Monitoring and Assessment of Pollutants in Coastal Waters, Sediments, and Biota, 2nd Edition

edited by

Hyeon-Seo Cho

and

Huiho Jeong

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open

Keywords: monitoring; assessment; pollutants; coastal water; marine sediments; marine organism; marine environment; food webs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Recent Advances in Maritime Energy Systems

edited by

Ying Cui

and

Zhen Liu

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open

Keywords: development and utilization of marine renewable energy; computational fluid dynamics and numerical simulation; oscillating water column wave energy converter; air turbine; hydrofoil; vertical-axis turbine

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water-Energy Nexus)

Application of Nanomaterials in Soil and Aquatic Environment Remediation

edited by

Mohammadreza Khalaj

and

Mohammadreza Kamali

submission deadline 26 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 224 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable nanomaterials; wastewater treatment; soil remediation; degradation mechanisms; sustainability assessment; characterisation of NMs; adsorption; advanced oxidation process (AOPs); fate of NMs; photocatalyst

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Social, Cultural, and Economic Factors Directly and Indirectly Influencing Water Resources and Conservation Outcomes

edited by

Kyle Maurice Woosnam

and Kristin E. Gibson

submission deadline 27 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5141 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource communication; environmental education; water conservation behavior; social evaluation methods; watershed management; behavioral modification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Scarcity)

Environmental Behavior, Ecological Effects and Health Risks of Pollutants in Aquatic Ecosystems

edited by

Qiuheng Zhu

and Meiling Xu

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16501 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental pollutants; aquatic organisms; environmental behavior; water ecological effects; health risks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

Approaches to Water-induced Landslide Hazard Risk Forecasting and Assessment

edited by Junrong Zhang,

Tao Wen

,

Faming Huang

and

Kun Fang

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12068 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; geomechanics; physical modelling; numerical modelling; slope stability; landslide susceptibility mapping; displacement prediction; landslide mitigation; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advance in Groundwater in Arid Areas

edited by Yudong Lu

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8496 | Submission Open

Keywords: arid and semi-arid regions; groundwater; groundwater-surface water interaction; groundwater numerical modeling; policies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Modeling of Flood Hazard and Assessment of Inundation Impacts, Vulnerability and Risk in Coastal Areas

edited by

Christos Makris

and

Yannis Androulidakis

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6995 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal flooding; coastal inundation; compound flooding; coastal flood risk; storm surge; climate change impacts; operational forecasting of floods; early warning systems; sea level rise; wave-induced flooding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Geotechnics and Geostructures Modelling for Hydrodynamic-Driven Landslides: Prediction and Control

edited by Qinwen Tan,

Kun Fang

and

Tao Wen

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3796 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulic process; landslide evolution; slope stability; geostructures modelling; seepage force; landslide mitigation and control; geotechnics; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)

Causes and Reconstruction of Catastrophic Flash Flood Disasters: Investigation, Analysis, Modelling and Risk Management, 2nd Edition

edited by

Xiekang Wang

and Meihong Ma

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2435 | Submission Open

Keywords: catastrophic flash floods; climate changes; extreme precipitation; underlying conditions; human activities; hydrological and hydro-meteorological modelling; soil erosion; water-sediment process; mechanism of flash flood disaster; risk assessment and management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources and Water Risks, 3rd Edition

edited by

Haibo Yang

, Fei Chen, Fei Wang,

Yuyan Zhou

and

Xiaosong Shu

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 656 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water resource management; drought; flood; remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Carbon Storage in Lake Sediments Under Climate Change

edited by

Barbara Futa

and

Joanna Gmitrowicz-Iwan

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 653 | Submission Open

Keywords: carbon cycle; drought; lake; dam reservoir; carbon stocks; humus substances; fulvid and humic acids; sediments; indicators

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Ecohydrological Processes, Environmental Effects, and Integrated Regulation of Wetland Ecosystems, 3rd Edition

edited by

Junhong Bai

and

Tian Xie

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 20 articles | Viewed by 30164 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecohydrological processes; environmental effects; ecological risks; biogeochemical processes; pollution; restoration; regulation; climate change; ecological service functions; wetland ecosystems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

The Impact of Climate Change and Land Use on Water Resources—an Issue of Environmental Global Safety

edited by

Ana-Maria Ciobotaru

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 21759 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; environmental safety; impact of climate change; management of water resources

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Advance in Hydrology and Hydraulics of the River System Research 2025

edited by

Karol Plesiński

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 14778 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulics; hydrology; river system; flow dynamics; numerical and physical modeling; hydrotechnics; geomorphologic; sediment transport; climate changes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Mathematical, Physical, Chemical, and Biological Methods for Ice and Water Problems

edited by

Zhijun Li

and

Fang Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 9699 | Submission Open

Keywords: lake ice; river ice; sea ice; ice engineering; observations and investigations; water environment; ecology; mathematical method; numerical modeling; physical modeling; chemical analysis; biological analysis; data analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)

New Perspectives for Water Quality and Wastewater Remediation: Advanced Oxidation Processes and Toxicity Assessments

edited by

Christina Nannou

and

Vasiliki Boti

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8867 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; water purification; water quality; water safety; emerging conataminants; water remediation; AOPs; transformation products; toxicity assessments; environmental risk; environmental safety

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Advances in Hydrogeological Investigations: Field Monitoring, GIS, AI, Remote Sensing, Geophysical Techniques, and Hydrochemical Analysis

edited by

Ismael Ibraheem

and

Abdelazim Negm

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7283 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; geophysical methods; geographical information system (GIS); joint interpretation; hydrogeophysical investigations; groundwater investigation; groundwater monitoring; groundwater assessment; groundwater sustainability; aquifer characterization; sustainable water management; groundwater quality; groundwater contamination; groundwater– surface water interaction; groundwater resources; advanced groundwater modeling; investigation of aquifer heterogeneities; regional and transboundary groundwater

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Urban Water Systems: Challenges in Current Environment

edited by

Ashok Sharma

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5506 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban water system; wastewater and stormwater systems; centralised systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)

Advances in Swimming Pool Hygiene Safety and Spa Research

edited by Athena Mavridou, Georgia Mandilara and

Vincenzo Romano Spica

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4687 | Submission Open

Keywords: swimming pools; hygiene safety; water microbiology; water chemistry; disinfection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and One Health)

Advanced Research in Non-Point Source Pollution of Watersheds

edited by

Feng Liu

, Tao Wang, Yan Xu and Cen Meng

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4459 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-point source pollution; landscape patterns; ecological treatments; pollutant removal and resource recovery; emerging contaminants; agriculture green development; watershed intelligent management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

Water-Related Disasters in Adaptation to Climate Change

edited by Mikio Ishiwatari and Akhilesh Surjan

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4093 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change adaptation; mobilizing climate change finance; flood protection; transdisciplinary approach; pub-lic– private-partnership; community-based disaster risk reduction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Groundwater Hydrology in Karst Media: Resources and Sustainability in Engineering

edited by Eugenio Sanz,

Juan Carlos Mosquera Feijoo

and

Ignacio Menéndez-Pidal

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3821 | Submission Open

Keywords: karst hydrology; water resources; karst springs; sustainability; engineering; research

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Review Papers of Urban Water Management 2025

edited by

Enedir Ghisi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2659 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban water infrastructure; urban water supply; urban drainage; urban catchment hydrology and modeling; sponge cities; stormwater management; rainwater harvesting; green roofs; permeable pavement systems; urban water contamination; effects of urbanization; sustainable development; wastewater; urban wastewater reuse; flood risk management; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)

Climate Change Uncertainties in Integrated Water Resources Management

edited by Thomas Ramsey and Liang Yuan

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2530 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; integrated water resources management (IWRM); transboundary rivers; uncertainty; sustainability; water conflict

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)

Biogeochemical Processes in Lakes, Ponds and Reservoirs of Urban Environments

edited by

Yijun Xu

,

Xihua Wang

and

Siyue Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2483 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban lakes and ponds; lake biogeochemistry; lake carbon; nutrients; and toxic elements; sustainable urban lake management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Landslide on Hydrological Response

edited by Lei Zhang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2102 | Submission Open

Keywords: water-induced landslide; landslide stability; deformation mechanism; landslide susceptibility mapping; multi-fields monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Sustainable Groundwater Management and Mitigation of Land Subsidence: Evaluating Environmental Impacts and Resilience Strategies

edited by Shih-Jung Wang and Wei-Chia Hung

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1953 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquifer recharge strategies; resilience in groundwater systems; land use change and subsidence; hydrogeological risk assessment; ecohydrology and environmental impact; adaptive water management; remote sensing in groundwater monitoring; groundwater quality degradation; integrated water resource management; hydrogeological simulation models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Remote Sensing Application in Support of Water-Soil-Plant Relationships

edited by Genghong Wu and Yi Zeng

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1889 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water– soil– plant relationships; soil moisture; vegetation monitoring; hydrological modeling; precision agriculture; uavs; satellite imagery; climate change; data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)

Extreme Rainfall and Hydrological Extremes: Monitoring and Prediction Using Machine Learning and Physical Modeling

edited by

Muhammad Abrar Faiz

and Zhaoqiang Zhou

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1322 | Submission Open

Keywords: extreme rainfall; prediction; hydrology; remote sensing; early warning; climate change; machine learning; disaster risk; data assimilation; flood forecasting

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)

Research on Microplastic Pollution in Water Environment

edited by

Aravin Prince Periyasamy

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1028 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics; aquatic pollution; water contimination; marine microplastics; biodiversity; microplastic detec-tion; nano-microplastics; policy and regulation on microplastics; bioaccumulation; human health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

Next-Generation Iceberg Behavior Modeling: Integrating Machine Learning, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Environmental Dynamics

edited by

Hamed Azimi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 893 | Submission Open

Keywords: iceberg modeling; machine learning; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); ocean– ice interactions; climate impact on icebergs; remote sensing; Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Comprehensive Evaluation of the Interplay Between Meteorological, Hydrological and Agricultural Droughts Under the Influence of Changing Climate

edited by

Khalil Ur Rahman

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 542 | Submission Open

Keywords: drought; drought propagation; drought mitigation; drought impact assessment; climate change; extreme events; remote sensing; spatial and temporal assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Research Progress on the Utilization of Energy Substances in Sludge from Urban Sewage Treatment Plants

edited by

Mawuli Dzakpasu

and

Yaqian Zhao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 322 | Submission Open

Keywords: sewage sludge; energy recovery; anaerobic digestion; pyrolysis; gasification; biogas production; urban waste management; bio-oil; syngas; circular economy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

Observation and Modelling of Past, Current and Future Water Resources in Transboundary River Systems

edited by

Juraj Parajka

, Zsolt Kozma and Peter Burek

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 284 | Submission Open

Keywords: transboundary river system; hydrological modelling; uncertainty of climate projections; sustainable river basin management; joint monitoring and information systems; multi-level stakeholder engagement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Coastal Engineering and Wave Hydrodynamics Based on Meshless Methods

edited by Can Huang and Jinxin Wu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open

Keywords: meshless method; wave– structure interactions; multi-phase flows; wave energy; marine gas hydrate; submarine landslide; underwater robots

(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)

Multi-Objective Optimization for Sustainable Groundwater Management

edited by Shankar Karuppannan and Nafyad Serre Kawo

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 248 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-objective optimization; groundwater management; sustainable water resources; decision support systems; aquifer modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Water Pollution Monitoring, Control, and Prevention

edited by

Rongkui Su

and

Yiting Luo

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 169 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)

From Theory to Practice: Implementing Resilience, Adaptation and Drivers of Change Frameworks in Water Basin Management

edited by

Leonie J. Pearson

and

Josephine Mummery

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: resilience implementation; adaptive management; practical applications; water governance; social-ecological systems; management tools; operational frameworks; decision-support; policy reform; evaluation metrics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)

Biodiversity Assessment and Conservation in High-Altitude Freshwater Systems

edited by

Wout Van Echelpoel

and

Rubén Jerves-Cobo

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 134 | Submission Open

Keywords: freshwater; community; high altitude; assessment; management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)

Flow Hydrodynamic in Open Channels: Interaction with Natural or Man-Made Structures, 2nd Edition

edited by

Mouldi Ben Meftah

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open

Keywords: river and open channel flows; hydrodynamic; vegetation; local scouring; turbulent jets; hydraulic jumps; boundary layers; solitary waves and tidal bores; experiments; numerical modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)

Applied Agricultural and Environmental Hydrogeology: From Field Monitoring to Numerical Approaches

edited by Massimiliano Schiavo,

Nicolò Colombani

,

Abelardo Antònio de Montenegro

and Eleonora Carol

submission deadline 1 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 343 | Submission Open

Keywords: applied hydrogeology; monitoring; numerical modeling; geochemistry; geostatistics; machine learning; agricultural engineering; salinization; environmental engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Water Quality, Wastewater Treatment and Water Recycling, 2nd Edition

edited by Memory Tekere

submission deadline 5 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 195 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; emerging contaminants; treatment processes; water reuse; SDG6.3; waste effluent valorisation; innovations; advanced technology; pathogens; AI in wastewater issues

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)

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