Water

Electrochemical Approaches to Sustainable Water Treatment: Tackling Pollution and Advancing Resource Recovery

edited by

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2489 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrochemical wastewater treatment; resource recovery; electrooxidation; electroreduction; heavy metal complexes; nitrate; phosphorus; electro-Fenton; PFAS; refractory organics; high salinity wastewater

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

Groundwater Environmental Impacts and Control Strategies of Coal Mining and Energy Development/Storage Activities

edited by

Yonghui Wu

, Lijun Liu and Jingwei Huang

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1945 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquifer-protected coal mining; water conservation mining technology; sustainable development of geothermal energy; aquifer gas/thermal storage; underground water/gas/thermal reservoir in mine goaf; evolution of groundwater dynamic fields; recycling technology and pollution control of mine water; dynamic monitoring and remediation of groundwater; coupled flow in fractured porous media; rock mechanics under THMC multi-field coupling; fracture initiation and propagation; low-carbon treatment and resource utilization of mine water

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Pesticides in Water and Health

edited by

Li Chen

and Wenjun Zhang

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1888 | Submission Open

Keywords: pesticide; bioaccumulation; toxicological assessment; health risk assessment; in vitro; in vivo

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

Protection and Restoration of Lake and Water Reservoir

edited by Xiaoxiao Wang

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1797 | Submission Open

Keywords: riparian restoration; water quality; nutrient cycling; sediment management; freshwater ecosystems; climate change; sustainable management; ecological resilience

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

Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Prediction Hydrogeological Hazards

edited by Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki and

Seyed Vahid Razavi-Termeh

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1660 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological hazards; spatial modeling; geographic information systems (GISs); remote sensing; flood prediction; drought monitoring; geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI); climate change impacts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Wetland Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment

edited by

Qi Huang

and Tianxiang Wang

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1638 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; monitoring and assessment; aquatic ecosystems; model; sustainability; machine learning

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

Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Ecosystem Dynamics in Mountainous and Cold-Region Ecosystems

edited by Terry V. Callaghan CMG

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1600 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources and water use; biodiversity; climate changes; cold regions; mountainous regions; ecosystems; ecosystem services and feedback; human impact; population

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Hydrology and Hydrodynamics Characteristics in Coastal Area

edited by

Nizar Abcha

and Nicolas Lecoq

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1541 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal hydrodynamics; hydrologic modeling; storm surge and tidal dynamics; sediment transport; monitoring; remote sensing in coastal environments; watershed– coastal interface

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

Impact of Biochar Additions on Soil Hydraulic Properties

edited by Peizhen Zhang

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 693 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil hydraulic properties; biochar characteristic; soil water retention; water-saving irrigation; soil pore characteristics

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

Water Resources and Environment Management in Watersheds with Intensive Human Activities

edited by

Chenning Deng

and

Yang Xu

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; water environment; sustainable management; human activities; influencing factors

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

Engineering Hydrogeology Research Related to Mining Activities, 2nd Edition

edited by Wei Qiao and Bo Li

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 172 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanism of water inrush; prediction of mine water hazard; intelligent warning and monitor of mine water hazard; mine water injection and storage; mine water reinjection and geological storage; mine inflow; evolution of groundwater flow field; water inrush from separate layer; research on rock dynamics with fluid– structure coupling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Sustainable Treatment for Emerging Contaminations in Offshore Aquaculture Tailwater

edited by

Wei Song

and Bingzhi Liu

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminations; offshore aquaculture tailwater; aquaculture effluent; ECs treatment technology; waste resource utilization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture)

Hydrogeology and Water Management in Ancient Hydraulic Systems

edited by

Libera Esposito

and

Francesco Fiorillo

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 69 | Submission Open

Keywords: ancient aqueducts; hydrogeology; water management; water supply; climate change; Greek; Roman; Sumerian; Egyptians

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advances in Water Resource Management and Planning

edited by

Mariusz Adynkiewicz-Piragas

,

Haifeng Jia

,

Alicja Edyta Krzemińska

and Anna Zaręba

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 68 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource management; digitalisation and smart water systems (IoT; AI; Big Data); hydrological and hydroclimatic modelling; GIS and remote sensing in water management; sustainable and resilient water systems (NbS; blue-green infrastructure); water management in cities and urban farms; water retention and recovery systems; adaptive water resource planning; integration of water; energy; and food; economic and financial instruments in water management

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

Biological Technology in Wastewater Treatment

edited by Hao Zhou,

Xuwang Zhang

and

Qiao Ma

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open

Keywords: biological nitrogen removal; granular sludge; biofilm reactors; algal– bacterial consortia; bioelectrochemical systems; constructed wetlands; heavy-metal bioremediation; micropollutant biodegradation; multi-omics; machine learning

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

Application of Machine Learning and Satellite Remote Sensing in Flood Risk Assessment

edited by

Alan Woodley

and

Chandrama Sarker

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood risk; flood mapping; remote sensing; machine learning algorithms

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

Microbial Diversity in Freshwater Ecosystems

edited by

Siddiq Akbar

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: freshwater microbial diversity; aquatic microbiome dynamics; microbial indicators of water quality; metagenomic profiling of freshwater; microbial responses to environmental stress

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

Ecology and Management of Crayfish

edited by

Mihaela C. Ion

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open

Keywords: anthropogenic disturbance; aquaculture; endangered species; environmental DNA; eradication; hydrological fragmentation; invasive species; monitoring; risk assessment; trophic niche

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

Alternative Sources for Urban Water Supply

edited by

Cristina Santos

,

Cristina Matos

and Ana Poças

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 49 | Submission Open

Keywords: alternative water sources; urban water supply strategies; groundwater; surface water; use of seawater; rainwater harvesting; greywater reuse; treated wastewater reuse

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

Innovations in Water Resource Management: Integrating Advanced Analytics, AI, and System Modeling

edited by Saman Maroufpoor

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource management; artificial intelligence; machine learning; data-driven modeling; hydrological forecasting; groundwater and surface water systems; climate change impacts; flood and drought forecasting; agricultural water management

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

Optimization–Simulation Modeling of Sustainable Water Resource, 2nd Edition

edited by Zhaocai Wang

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources management; sustainable development of water resources; optimization models; simulation modeling; water planning; water scheduling; water allocation; water environment management; disaster management; decision support systems

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

Application of Adsorbent Materials for Efficient and Sustainable Water Treatment

edited by

Xiaochun Yin

and Yongfeng Zhu

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open

Keywords: adsorbent materials; water treatment; pollutant removal; nanomaterials; bio-based adsorbents; sustainable materials; adsorption mechanism

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

Novel Sorbents for Water Treatment

edited by

Marta Marszałek

and

Ewa Knapik

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 38 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel sorbent materials; sustainable sorbents; functionalized sorbents; composite sorbent materials; adsorption mechanisms; kinetics; and isotherm modeling; water treatment; emerging pollutants; heavy metal removal; organic pollutants removal

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

Water Quality, Pathogens, and Public Health Risks

edited by Samendra P. Sherchan

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 35 | Submission Open

Keywords: waterborne diseases; emerging pathogens; water quality; water treatment; epidemiology

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

Nutrient Continuum Across Water–Soil Applications: Cycling–Recycling–Cycling

edited by Iris Zohar

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; nutrient biogeochemical cycling; nutrient recovery and recycling; soil fertility improvement

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

Advanced Biotechnologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment, 3rd Edition

edited by

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submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 31 | Submission Open

Keywords: biotechnologies for water treatment; biotechnologies for wastewater treatment; advanced water treatment; advanced wastewater treatment; nutrient recovery from wastewater; energy recovery from wastewater; emerging contaminants in water and wastewater treatment; industrial waste treatment; municipal wastewater treatment; water reuse; water treatment

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

Advances in Control Technologies for Emerging Contaminants in Water

edited by

Weiying Li

and Dawei Zhang

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 29 | Submission Open

Keywords: Emerging Contaminants (ECs); water treatment technologies; Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs); adsorption materials; microplastics; PFAS; biological degradation; hybrid treatment systems; environmental risk assessment; sustainable water management; water quality; analytical methods

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

Advances in Hydrology and Water Resources Management for Sustainable Futures

edited by

Sooyeon Yi

and

Jaeeung Yi

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 29 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrologic modeling; water resources management; climate change; extreme weather events; flood risk assessment; drought mitigation; environment and ecosystem responses; reservoir operation; machine learning; uncertainty and risk analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Emerging Materials (Membranes, Adsorbents, Catalysts) for Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Titus Chinedu Egbosiuba

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 29 | Submission Open

Keywords: adsorption technologies; catalytic processes; membrane technology; water purification; advanced materials; pollutant removal; environmental remediation; sustainable wastewater treatment

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

Applied Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Sensing for Real-World Water Quality Monitoring

edited by

Juan Tomás García-Bermejo

and

Daniel Carreres Prieto

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 22 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; pathogens; cyanobacteria; machine learning; indirect characterization; prediction; detection; environmental monitoring; sensors; big data

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

The Impact of Climate Change on Water Erosion

edited by Hongliang Kang and Yibao Lou

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 20 | Submission Open

Keywords: water erosion; climate change; extreme rainfall; runoff generation; sediment yield; soil and water conservation

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

Soil and Groundwater Quality and Resources Assessment, 3rd Edition

edited by

Wanjun Jiang

,

Yizhi Sheng

and Hairu Mao

submission deadline 22 May 2026 | Viewed by 41 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiple contaminants; source apportionment; migration– transformation; ecological health risks; soil– groundwater system

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

Impacts of Environmental Change and Human Activities on Aquatic Ecosystems, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jian Hu

,

Guilin Han

and Qian Zhang

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3221 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic ecosystems; migration and transformation; source identification; risk assessment; sustainable development

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

Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) Research, 2nd Edition

edited by

Peng Du

and

Phong K. Thai

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2287 | Submission Open

Keywords: new biomarkers for WBE; new applications of WBE; early warning of infectious disease; monitoring substances of abuse; method uncertainties; health risk assessments

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

Water Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration: 2nd Edition

edited by

Ruiming Han

and Xin Leng

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1002 | Submission Open

Keywords: water pollution; ecological restoration; lake and river; water quality; aquatic ecology

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

Advancing the Monitoring and Modelling of Freshwater Systems with New Remote Sensing Technologies, 2nd Edition

edited by

Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 863 | Submission Open

Keywords: airborne remote sensing; flood forecasting; fluvial geomorphology; ice detection; ice characterization; near-ground remote sensing; river and lake modelling; river and lake monitoring; sediment transport; space-borne remote sensing; water quality

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

Evaluation and Monitoring of Hydrogeological Hazards in Underground Engineering

edited by Zhiqiang Li

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 487 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanisms of water-related hazards; advanced geological prediction; prediction and risk evaluation; monitoring methods; intelligent early-warning systems; hydro-geo-mechanical coupling; sustainable approaches for water-related hazards; control and treatment of water-related hazards; modeling and simulation of hydrogeological processes; case studies obout water-related hazards; large tunnels in mountainous areas; tunnels on high-speed rail lines below the water table; tunnels beneath the seabed; large caverns for fluid storage or power generation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Research on Wastewater Treatment, Recycling and Reuse

edited by

Manuel Toledo Padrón

and Sara Sáez-Orviz

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 229 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; physicochemical treatment; biological treatment; terciary treatment; odour control; waste management; pollutant removal; municipal wastewater; industrial wastewater; agricultural wastewater; resource recovery; water reuse

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

New Technologies for Hydrological Forecasting and Modeling

edited by

Iwona Kuptel-Markiewicz

,

Agnieszka Rutkowska

and

Katarzyna Baran-Gurgul

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 151 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modeling and foorecasting; machine learning in hydrology; real-time forecasting; remote sensing applications; uncertainty analysis; hydrological extreme events; artificial intelligence in hydrology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Indigenous Water: Knowledge, Rights, and Sustainable Management

edited by

Robert Patrick

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open

Keywords: indigenous water; water rights; water resources management; ecosystem services; environmental justice; water protection; climate change adaptation

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

Integrative Methodologies for Mountain Torrent Disaster Resilience: Bridging Physical Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, and Multi-Scale Monitoring

edited by Yi Liu and Jun Guo

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 81 | Submission Open

Keywords: mountain torrent resilience; physical process modeling; AI-assisted forecasting; multi-scale monitoring; data assimilation; early warning systems; disaster risk reduction

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

Hydrological Impacts on Geological Hazards: Mechanisms, Modeling, and Early Warning

edited by Wei Shao,

Zongji Yang

and

Wen Nie

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 31 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrology– geohazard interactions; rainfall-induced landslides; pore water pressure; permafrost degradation; hydro-mechanical coupling; early warning; data assimilation; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Climate Change Adaptation and Water Governance

edited by

Attila Kovacs

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 28 | Submission Open

Keywords: water governance; climate change; water resources; water policy

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

Geochemistry and Reservoir Management

edited by

Khosro Jarrahian

and

Mahdi Kalantari-Meybodi

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 24 | Submission Open

Keywords: geochemistry; hydro-thermo-mechanical proccesses; fluid flow in porous media; thermodynamics; fluid– rock interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advanced Water Treatment Strategies for the Removal of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants

edited by

Cátia A.L. Graça

and Ana Sofia Guedes Gorito dos Santos

submission deadline 29 May 2026 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; water purification; wastewater treatment; advanced water treatment; innovative treatment methods

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

Climate Change Impacts on Landslide Activity

edited by

Wenkai Feng

,

Xiaoyu Yi

and

Shan Dong

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; landslides; slope stability; hazard assessment; rainfall; temperature; permafrost; remote sensing; modeling; risk management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Climate Change and Hydrological Processes, 3rd Edition

edited by

Alina Barbulescu

and

Cristian Ștefan Dumitriu

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 31 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change scenarios; extreme events; risk assessment; multivariate analysis; artificial intelligence models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Innovative Approaches to Freshwater Restoration and Management

edited by

Katarzyna Kowalczewska-Madura

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 21 | Submission Open

Keywords: freshwater; eutrophication; protective measures; restoration

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

Managing Water under a New Hydrological Normal: Innovations for Resilience in the Face of Climate Change

edited by

Jia Wang

and Yi Ji

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 11 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water resilience; hydrological modeling; adaptive water management; groundwater-surface water interactions; adaptive reservoir operation; multi-objective optimization; hydro-monitoring

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

Advancing Knowledge of the Impacts of Contaminants in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Alla Khosrovyan

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4264 | Submission Open

Keywords: benthic; water column; lentic; lotic; aquatic pollution; ecotoxicology; assay; test

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

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