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 246 | 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 193 | 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 126 | 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)

Ecology and Management of Crayfish

edited by

Mihaela C. Ion

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 121 | 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)

Advances in Hydrology and Water Resources Management for Sustainable Futures

edited by

Sooyeon Yi

and

Jaeeung Yi

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 118 | 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)

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 101 | 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)

Microbial Diversity in Freshwater Ecosystems

edited by

Siddiq Akbar

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 89 | 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)

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

edited by Saman Maroufpoor

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 82 | 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)

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 69 | Submission Open

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

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

Water Quality, Pathogens, and Public Health Risks

edited by Samendra P. Sherchan

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

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

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

Biological Technology in Wastewater Treatment

edited by Hao Zhou,

Xuwang Zhang

and

Qiao Ma

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 66 | 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)

Alternative Sources for Urban Water Supply

edited by

Cristina Santos

,

Cristina Matos

and Ana Poças

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 64 | 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)

Application of Adsorbent Materials for Efficient and Sustainable Water Treatment

edited by

Xiaochun Yin

and Yongfeng Zhu

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 61 | 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)

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

edited by Iris Zohar

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 58 | 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 58 | 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)

Novel Sorbents for Water Treatment

edited by

Marta Marszałek

and

Ewa Knapik

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 58 | 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)

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

edited by Zhaocai Wang

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 51 | 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)

Advances in Control Technologies for Emerging Contaminants in Water

edited by

Weiying Li

and Dawei Zhang

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 49 | 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)

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

edited by

Titus Chinedu Egbosiuba

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 46 | 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)

The Impact of Climate Change on Water Erosion

edited by Hongliang Kang and Yibao Lou

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 42 | 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)

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 35 | 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)

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 79 | 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 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4203 | 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 2691 | 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 1070 | 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 984 | 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 690 | 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 262 | 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 171 | 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 137 | 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 107 | 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)

Climate Change Adaptation and Water Governance

edited by

Attila Kovacs

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open

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

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

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 50 | 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)

Geochemistry and Reservoir Management

edited by

Khosro Jarrahian

and

Mahdi Kalantari-Meybodi

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 35 | 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 74 | 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 69 | 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 55 | 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 39 | 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 30 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5750 | 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)

Mine Water Environment and Remediation

edited by

Zhimin Xu

,

Ge Chen

and Li Zhang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 459 | Submission Open

Keywords: mine water environment; mine water quality; typical pollutants; treatment and utilization; pollution remediation; mine water reinjection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advances and Major Achievements in China’s Digital Twin River Basin Development

edited by

Yesen Liu

,

Yueqin Zhu

and

Yaohuan Huang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 157 | Submission Open

Keywords: China; digital twin hydrology; knowledge graph; large language model; virtual simulation; satellite remote sensing; flood control; water resources; water network

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

Urban Stormwater Control, Utilization and Treatment, 2nd Edition

edited by

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submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 111 | Submission Open

Keywords: stormwater control; low-impact development; numerical simulation; analytical probabilistic approach; stormwater treatment; rainwater harvesting; SWMM; sponge city; stormwater quality; urban flooding

Microbiomics in Wastewater Remediation and Biomedical Applications

edited by

Binghan Xie

and Dan Song

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 72 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbiomics; wastewater treatment; biomedical applications; microbial communities; therapeutic targets; cancer microbiome

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

Application of Machine Learning in Hydrologic Sciences, 2nd Edition

edited by

Gonzalo Astray

and

Diego Fernández-Nóvoa

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 64 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrology; water cycle; water– soil– atmosphere; machine learning; big data; monitoring/modelling/prediction/optimization/management; water flow/quality/supply/energy; risk/hazard assessment; multidisciplinary water research

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

Research on Wetland Ecohydrology

edited by

Qiang Liu

and

Yanfeng Wu

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 58 | Submission Open

Keywords: Wetland ecohydrology; drought; carbon source/sink; Wetland resilience; hydrological regime; evapotranspiration; Habitat; biodiversity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Advances in the Relationship Between Climate Change and Runoff in Watershed

edited by

Jūratė Kriaučiūnienė

and

Serhii Nazarenko

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modeling; climate scenarios; global models; downscaling; runoff projections; uncertainty; ungauged rivers; reanalysis data

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

Advances in the Application of Environmental Tracer Technology in Agricultural Water and Soil Management

edited by

Kashif Akhtar

and

Misbah Naz

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental tracers; stable isotopes; nutrient cycling; irrigation management; soil– water interactions

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

Heavy Metal Pollution and Removal in the Water Environment

edited by Asmat Ali

submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 287 | Submission Open

Keywords: heavy metals; water pollution; wastewater treatment; bioaccumulation; ecotoxicology; removal technologies; environmental health

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

Biochar-Driven Nutrient Circularity in Wastewater: From Reactivity to Agronomic Reuse

edited by

Salah Jellali

and

Mejdi Jeguirim

submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; biomass; biochar; modification; deep characterization; nutrient recovery; static and dynamic conditions; nutrient slow-release; circular economy

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

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