Water

Transport of Mixture of Cohesive and Non-Cohesive Sediments in Rivers

edited by

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1526 | Submission Open

Keywords: cohesive sediment; non-cohesive sediment; transport of sediment mixture; river flows; erosion and deposition; flocculation; critical conditions

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

Innovative Approaches in Groundwater Pollution Source Identification and Quality Monitoring: Challenges and Future Directions

edited by Lixin Yi

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater pollution source identification; water quality monitoring; hydrogeological modeling; big data analytics; isotopic tracing; data integration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Intelligent Safety Diagnosis and Reinforcement of Water-Related Buildings

edited by Yangtao Li,

Yang Wei

and Hao Gu

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6476 | Submission Open

Keywords: dams; breakwaters and reservoirs; hydraulic structures; hydropower refurbishment; smart diagnosis; structural safety; hydraulic rehabilitation; dike & coastal defense safety; intelligent management & reinforcement; machine learning & deep learning

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

Insights on the Water–Energy–Food Nexus and Sustainable Development

edited by

Riza Radmehr

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5484 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental sustainability; food production; water management; energy security; machine learning; waste management; remote sensing analysis

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

Evapotranspiration and Plant Water Stress Measurements as the Driving Standard for Agricultural Irrigation

edited by

Teresa Afonso do Paço

,

Maria Isabel Freire Ribeiro Ferreira

and

Joao Rolim Lopes

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4443 | Submission Open

Keywords: evapotranspiration; irrigation scheduling; deficit irrigation; water stress indicators; ground truth data

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

Solid-Liquid Separation Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

edited by Wenjun Zhang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 466 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid– liquid separation technology; wastewater treatment; mineral processing wastewater; flocculation and sedi-mentation; technological innovation

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

Climate Risk Management, Sea Level Rise and Coastal Impacts

edited by

Nawin Raj

, Nathan Downs and Lila Singh-Peterson

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 26154 | Submission Open

Keywords: oceanic changes; climate risk management; deep learning; climate change; sea level rise; remote sensing; artificial intelligence; machine learning; coastal changes; oceanography; wetland changes; mangrove changes

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

Water Quality Examination: The Investigation of Heavy Metal Contamination, Nutrients, and Organic Pollutants in Aquatic Environments for an Enhanced Prevention and Purification Process

edited by

Thomas Dippong

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14702 | Submission Open

Keywords: water pollution; contamination of groundwater; aquatic ecosystems; monitoring of water resources; management for sustainability; removal of heavy metals; eutrophication; bioremediation; chemical or biological technologies; aquatic environments; risk assessment; phytoremediation of water; microplastics in water; nutrients in water; heavy metal in water; organic pollutants in water; bacterial contamination of water

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

Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and the Circular Economy—2nd Edition

edited by

Tao Zhang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13976 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; circular economy; biomass waste; resource recovery; green chemistry; thermal conversion; anaerobic process; aerobic process

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

Recent Advances in Flood Risk Assessment and Management

edited by Xiaolei Zhang and Xiao Liu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13534 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood risk assessment; hydraulic and hydrological modeling; climate change and flood frequency; flood risk mapping; flood protection infrastructure; early warning systems; socioeconomic impacts of flooding; community-based flood management; flood resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Effects of Groundwater and Surface Water on the Natural Geo-Hazards, 2nd Edition

edited by Xudong Zhang,

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and

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13329 | Submission Open

Keywords: water modeling; soil– water interaction; rock– water interaction; geo-hazards; water-induced problems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Impacts of Climate Change & Human Activities on Wetland Ecosystems

edited by Zhongqing Yan, Guopeng Liang, Yingxin Shang and Xueping Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10871 | Submission Open

Keywords: wetland ecosystems; ecosystem services and functions; protection and restoration; climate change and human activities; wetland hydrological processes; greenhouse gas (GHGs) fluxes; nutrient cycle and energy flow; water environment quality

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

Slope Stability Analyses and Landslide Risk Assessment Under Hydrodynamic Action

edited by

Zheng-Yi Feng

,

Cheng-Yu Ku

and

Frank Tsai

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10141 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide; debris flow; river bank erosion and protection; slope stability; landslide risk assessment; groundwater seepage; landslide mitigation; water erosion; sediment transport

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

Evaluation of Microbiological Indicators for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

edited by

Anna Lenart-Boroń

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9738 | Submission Open

Keywords: antibiotic resistance; bacteria; drinking water; fungi; health risks; irrigation; microbiological contamination; protozoa; treatment plants; viruses; wastewater treatment; water pollution; water reuse

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

Machine Learning Applications in the Water Domain

edited by

Yonggui Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 9288 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource; machine learning (ML); neural network; hydrological phenomena; water quality; time series prediction; water body identification; classification; comparative analysis; interpretability of ML

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

Microplastics Pollution in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Xueqiang Lu

and Chengtao Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8733 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics; ecotoxicology; aquatic systems; detection; mitigation strategies

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

Flood Inundation Modeling and Mapping: Application of Hydrodynamic Models, Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Tools

edited by

Fazlul Karim

and

Catherine Ticehurst

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8651 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrology; flood frequency; hydrodynamic modeling; remote sensing; machine learning; satellite imagery; SRTM; LiDAR; Sentinel-1; Sentinel-2; Landsat; floods; inundation; flood risk; uncertainty analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Applications of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Xuetong Yang

, Rui Zhang and Yang Hu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 7994 | Submission Open

Keywords: persistent (micro)pollutants; PFAS; wastewater treatment; ozonation; environmental sustainability; water quality; life cycle assessment

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

Global Water Risks Across Shared River Corridors in Transboundary Basins

edited by

Shahbaz Khan

,

Arfan Arshad

,

Fazlullah Akhtar

and Zaichen Xiang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7869 | Submission Open

Keywords: transboundary river basins; water governance; capacity development; remote sensing; ML/AI tools; water quality and quantity; land-water dynamics; flood and droughts; land cover changes; outlook at shared aquifers

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

The Safety Operations and Intelligent Control of Water Network Engineering Systems

edited by

Yantao Zhu

,

Rui Pang

and

Binghan Xue

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7337 | Submission Open

Keywords: water network safety; intelligent control systems; risk assessment; IoT and AI integration; infrastructure reliability

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

Water Footprint and Energy Sustainability

edited by

Winnie Gerbens-Leenes

and

S.D. Vaca Jimenez

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7120 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– energy nexus; energy sustainability; water resources management; water footprint assessment; sustainable electricity production; water; land and carbon footprint trade-offs

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

Slope Stability Analyses and Risk Assessment for Rainfall-Induced Landslides

edited by

Qihang Li

,

Xiaoshuang Li

and Jiang Song

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6218 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslides; rainfall infiltration; slope stability; physical model experiment; numerical modelling; machine learning; advanced algorithms; failure mechanism; mitigation measures; monitoring and early warning

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

Application of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Purification

edited by

Yi Ren

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6077 | Submission Open

Keywords: water purification; wastewater treatment; water restoration; emerging contaminants; advanced oxidation processes; Fenton-like oxidation; photocatalysis; electrocatalysis; ozonation; non-thermal plasma; electron beam

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

Global Perspective on Hydrology and Water Resources Management in Complex Urban Areas

edited by Jingyuan Xue, Liuyue He and

Fan Zhang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5730 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources management; climate change resilience; water quality control; integrated water resource planning; non-point source pollution; flood risk assessment and mitigation; drought risk assessment and mitigation; urban– rural transitional areas; coastal regoins

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Research on Water Supply Systems and on the Treatment and Recovery of Wastewater and Stormwater

edited by

António Manuel Abreu Freire Diogo

,

Enedir Ghisi

and

Célia dos Anjos Alves

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5638 | Submission Open

Keywords: water supply systems; water resources management; non-conventional water sources; water supply networks; urban water infrastructures planning; design and rehabilitation; water quality; water treatment; public health; wastewater treatment and reuse; stromwater harvesting; environemtal sustainability

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

Advanced Numerical Approaches for Multiphase and Cavitating Flows

edited by Linmin Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5405 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiphase flow; cavitation; numerical simulation; Eulerian– Lagrangian approach; computational fluid dynamics

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

Marine Biodiversity and Its Relationship with Climate/Environment

edited by

Francesco Rendina

and Valentina Perricone

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5115 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine biodiversity; marine ecosystems; climate change; ocean acidification; global warming; species adaptation; habitat shift; ecosystem services; environmental impacts; marine conservation; sustainable management

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

Application of Hydrological Modelling to Water Resources Management

edited by

Doosun Kang

,

Amir Saman Tayerani Charmchi

and

Fatemeh Ghobadi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5102 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate-change adaptation; climate-related disasters; decision support systems; digital twins; early warning systems; environmental uncertainties; hydrological modeling; integrated water resources management (IWRM); machine learning and deep learning; model-informed decision making; multi-criteria decision making; multi-objective opti-mization; optimal water allocation; probabilistic modeling; proactive management strategies; reinforcement learning; remote sensing and GIS applications; scheduling and planning; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); water– energy nexus; water supply and demand; water resources management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Advanced Remote Sensing for Coastal System Monitoring and Management

edited by

Chunpeng Chen

,

Ce Zhang

and

Wenting Wu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4227 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal zones; remote sensing; coastal sustainable management; deep learning

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

Study on Environmental Hydrology and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Basins, Estuaries and Offshore

edited by

Biyun Guo

and

Chunyan Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4161 | Submission Open

Keywords: water environment; coastal estuary; hydrodynamic; mathematical model

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

Machine Learning Models for Flood Hazard Assessment

edited by

Álvaro Sordo-Ward

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3657 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; artificial intelligent; flood hazard; flood forecasting; flood warning; flood risk; models; real time; monitoring systems; climate change; new sensors; mitigation strategies

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

Sustainable Water Management in Agricultural Irrigation

edited by Dat Q Tran

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3576 | Submission Open

Keywords: irrigated agriculture; cropping patterns; irrigation technologies; managed aquifer recharge (MAR); re-claimed/treated water; water– energy– food nexus; transboundary conflict and cooperation; water institutions

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

Risk Assessment and Mitigation for Water Conservancy Projects

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submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3414 | Submission Open

Keywords: dams; dikes; water diversion projects; risk; seepage; overtopping; breach; consequences; management

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

Machine Learning Models for Hydrological Inference: A Case Study for Flood Events

edited by

Li Zhou

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2547 | Submission Open

Keywords: development and optimization of machine learning models for flood prediction and early warning; multi-source data fusion and remote sensing applications in flood monitoring; hydrological response modeling under extreme rainfall conditions; interpretability; transferability; and uncertainty quantification of machine learning models; small-sample learning and transfer learning in data-scarce regions; hybrid modeling approaches that integrate physical-based and machine learning models; case studies and system-level applications of machine learning in real-world flood management contexts

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

Advances in Metal Removal and Recovery from Water

edited by

Xiande Xie

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2188 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; water treatment; metal pollution removal; metal recovery; absorption; heavy metal

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

Advancements in Remote Sensing and UAV Technologies for Water Management in Climate-Smart Agriculture Systems

edited by

Muhammad Awais

,

Xander Wang

,

Wei Li

and Selvarajah Thuseethan

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2105 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; climate-smart agriculture; water management; digital twins; sustainable farming; agricultural water use efficiency

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

Studies on Toxic Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems

edited by Zongming Ren and

Chunlei Xia

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2079 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic toxicology; online monitoring technology; individual responses; toxic effects; water pollution; biodiversity; ecosystems

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

Advanced Perspectives on the Water–Energy–Food Nexus

edited by Qiong Yue,

Guohua He

, Mengyang Wu and

Xinchun Cao

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2042 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– energy– food nexus; integrated management; cross-sectoral policy; climate resilience; cascading risk

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

Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Monitoring and Conservation, 2nd Edition

edited by

Igor Zelnik

and

Mateja Germ

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1879 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; rivers; lakes; wetlands; springs; streams; groundwater; ponds; macrophytes; macroinvertebrates; diatoms; algae

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

Advanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies with the Potential to Achieve Resource Recycling

edited by

Kinjal J. Shah

and

Yongjun Sun

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1852 | Submission Open

Keywords: water conservation; sustainable water management; efficient water use; water-saving technologies; water resource preservation; climate-resilient water systems; community water stewardship

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

Advanced Design and Synthesis of Novel Photocatalyst Materials for Wastewater Remediation

edited by

Farzaneh Mahmoudi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1699 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanomaterials; composite material; photocatalyst; organic pollutants; wastewater treatment

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

Human–Water Interactions: Water Supply, Livelihood and Rural Society

edited by Liangxin Fan

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1503 | Submission Open

Keywords: water governance; water consumption; water conservation; water sanitation; water supply; water resource management; public policy

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

Mine Water Treatment, Utilization and Storage Technology

edited by Xiaojun Wang,

Xiang Li

and

Zhan Yang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1267 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-salinity wastewater; mine water treatment; mine water utilization; resource reuse; geological storage technology

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

Intelligent Water Networks: Advanced Sensing, Real-Time Analytics, and Adaptive Management for Future Water Challenges

edited by

Sohail Iqbal

and

Manousos Valyrakis

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1074 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent water systems; advanced sensors; real-time analytics; machine learning; digital twins; edge computing; adaptive management; IoT; water quality monitoring; predictive modeling

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

Advances in Monitoring of Hydrological and Ecological Processes Under Climate Change

edited by

Haibo Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 893 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological monitoring; ecological processes; climate change impacts; evapotranspiration modeling; data fusion; water use efficiency

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

Rainfall Variability, Drought, and Land Degradation

edited by

Moncef Bouaziz

and

Harris Vangelis

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 773 | Submission Open

Keywords: rainfall; soil; land degradation; variabiltity; drought; modeling

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

Perspectives on Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Technologies

edited by Yuan Yan and Han Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 527 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater sustainability resource recovery system optimization biosolids and biogas management techno-economic analysis (TEA) life cycle assessment nitrogen removal integrated wastewater treatment systems

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

Advances in Ecohydrology in Arid Inland River Basins, 2nd Edition

edited by

Lianqing Xue

and

Guang Yang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 334 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change and water cycle; ecohydrological processes; efficient utilization of water resources; ecohydrological modeling; ecological and hydrological coupling; ecological pattern; ecological water requirement; arid inland river basin

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Changes in the Regimes of Glacial and Permafrost-Influenced Watersheds in the High Arctic

edited by

Grzegorz Janicki

and Łukasz Franczak

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 282 | Submission Open

Keywords: proglacial catchment hydrology and hydrochemistry; glacial; snowmelt; permafrost and mixed-river regime; river flow dynamics and variability; rainfall and snowmelt floods; river and overland runoff; foodplain and channel morphology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Climate-Driven Coastal and Ocean Dynamics: Waves, Shoreline Changes, and Carbon Cycle Interactions

edited by

Frédéric Kpèdonou Bonou

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 237 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal erosion; wave climate; carbon sequestration; shoreline dynamics; ocean acidification; blue carbon; climate adaptation; remote sensing; sediment transport; extreme events

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

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