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Applications of Remote Sensing and GISs in River Basin Ecosystems
edited by Jiren Xu, , and
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11081 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; GISs; river basin ecosystems; water quality monitoring; land use and land cover change; hydrological processes; ecosystem dynamics; environmental conservation; spatial analysis; sustainable management
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
Water-Related Landslide Hazard Process and Its Triggering Events
edited by Wei Liu
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10794 | Submission Open
Keywords: landslide; rainfall infiltration; pore water pressure; liquid– solid multiphase flow; hydrology; numerical simu-lation; risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Research on Microplastic Pollution in Water and Soil Environment
edited by and Taoze Liu
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10466 | Submission Open
Keywords: microplastic detection; microplastic abundance; plastic additives composition; ecolog-ical risk; environmental risk; water and soil environment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Research Status of Operation and Management of Hydropower Station
edited by Dong Liu and Yanhe Xu
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 10086 | Submission Open
Keywords: conventional hydropower stations; cascade hydropower stations; pumped storage power stations; non-linear modelling; combined operation; optimal control; multi-energy systems; stability analysis; new power systems; performance evaluation; fault diagnosis; trend prediction and early warning; renewable energy; artificial intelligence; optimization algorithms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Research on Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry: Challenges and Prospects submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10063 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrogeology; hydrochemistry; geochemistry; groundwater; aquifer; hydrothermal systems; energy applications; groundwater legislation and management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Energy Recovery and Clean Water: Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8968 | Submission Open
Keywords: water– energy nexus; energy policy; water governance; water quality; groundwater and matter flow modelling; groundwater irrigation; solar powered pumps; wastewater treatment; water– energy– food nexus; water distribution systems; GIS and remote sensing; artificial intelligence; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
Geochemistry and Removal of Heavy Metals and Other Pollutants in Water
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5670 | Submission Open
Keywords: geochemistry; heavy metals; water pollution; remediation techniques; water treatment; environmental impact; ecosystem health
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Innovations in Anaerobic Digestion Technology submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4678 | Submission Open
Keywords: anaerobic digestion; biogas valorization; value-added product production; resource recovery; bioenergy; biorefineries
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Application of Numerical Modeling in Estuarine and Coastal Dynamics
edited by Hongyi Zhao, and
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4093 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal modeling; ocean hydrodynamics model; shelf sea hydrodynamics model; local scour and protection; fluid– soil– structure interaction; solute transport in marine sediments; neural network models
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Applications of Nanozymes and Other Nanomaterials in the Water Environment: Latest Advances and Prospects
edited by
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3809 | Submission Open
Keywords: nanomaterials; nanozyme; pollutant degradation; pollutant detection; water treatment processes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Application of Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for Wastewater Treatment
edited by , and Zhihui Zhang
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2641 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced oxidation processes (AOPs); hybrid AOP technologies; wastewater treatment; photocatalysis; electrocatalysis; Fenton reactions; ozonation; reactive oxygen species (ROS); emerging contaminants; contaminant degradation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Pesticides in Water and Health
edited by and Wenjun Zhang
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1774 | 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)
Coupled Numerical Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Surface Water Interactions submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1671 | Submission Open
Keywords: numerical modeling; aquifer characterization; hydrogeology; hydrochemistry; groundwater hydrology; groundwater flow; solute (reactive) transport; surface water and groundwater interactions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Advances in Sustainable Management of Contaminated Stormwater
edited by
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1621 | Submission Open
Keywords: stormwater management; commercial areas contamination; traffic contamination; agriculture pollutants; stormwater treatment; urban drainage; water quality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Groundwater Environmental Impacts and Control Strategies of Coal Mining and Energy Development/Storage Activities
edited by , Lijun Liu and Jingwei Huang
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1616 | 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)
Sustainable Nutrients Management Strategies to Reduce Nutrients Pollution Along the Landscape-River-Sea Systems
edited by , Josue González Camejo and Laura Díaz-Guerra
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1562 | Submission Open
Keywords: nutrients; pollution; soil; rivers; sea; wastewaters; agricultural practices; environmental technologies; sustainability; circularity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Ecosystem Dynamics in Mountainous and Cold-Region Ecosystems
edited by Terry V. Callaghan CMG
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1376 | 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)
Resilient Rivers: Integrating Nature-Based Solutions with Hydraulic Engineering
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1173 | Submission Open
Keywords: Nature-based Solutions (NbS); hydraulic engineering; eco-hydraulics; river resilience; flood mitigation; sediment transport; erosion control; green infrastructure; river restoration; hydrodynamic modeling; climate adaptation; water quality; ecosystem services; sustainable river management; river rewilding
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)
Algae Distribution, Risk, and Prediction
edited by
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 918 | Submission Open
Keywords: algae; biodiversity; spatiotemporal distribution; risk; management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Impact of Biochar Additions on Soil Hydraulic Properties
edited by Peizhen Zhang
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 553 | 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)
Isotope Hydrology: Tracing Water’s Journey and Water–Rock Interactions in a Changing World
edited by , , Xianjun Xie, Zhongyin Cai, Jinlong Zhou and
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 481 | Submission Open
Keywords: isotope hydrology; water– rock– gas interaction; surface water– groundwater interaction; groundwater recharge; fate of nutrients (S-N-C-P); groundwater age dating; water contamination tracing; water quality; atmospheric water cycle; paleoclimate; geothermal resources; CCUS (carbon capture; utilization; and storage)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Water Resources and Environment Management in Watersheds with Intensive Human Activities
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 190 | 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 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 151 | 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)
Engineered Nanoporous Sorbents for Removing Emerging Pollutants from Aqueous Environments
edited by Jian Shen
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 128 | Submission Open
Keywords: nanoporous sorbents; engineering strategies; emerging pollutants; adsorption; water purification
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Implementation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Marine Ecosystem Management, 3rd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9754 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecosystem services; marine biodiversity; marine environment management; mesophotic environment; carbon sink; fishery and marine food; new marine based tourism; climate history; marine litter
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Impact of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystems submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7594 | Submission Open
Keywords: biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; global change; marine pollution; fisheries and food security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Applications of Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Water Resource Management
edited by
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3877 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrological remote sensing; water resource monitoring; satellite hydrology; soil moisture detection; precipitation estimation; flood mapping; drought assessment; multi-sensor integration; machine learning in hydrology; wetlands/lakes dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
Treatment and Resource Utilization of Urban Sewage Sludge
edited by , Yan Li and Xiaoyong Yang
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3774 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban sewage sludge; treatment technologies; resource utilization; environmental impact; anaerobic digestion; composting; incineration; land application; circular economy; sustainable management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Rainfall-Induced Landslides: Influencing, Modelling and Hazard Assessment: 2nd Edition
edited by and Danyi Shen
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2379 | Submission Open
Keywords: rainfall; landslides; causes; modelling; hazard assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)
Advancing Data-Driven Approaches in Landscape Hydrology: Innovations and Applications submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2347 | Submission Open
Keywords: data-driven hydrology; machine learning in hydrology; hydroinformatics; climate change adaptation; nature-based solutions; GIS-based hydrological modeling; flood and drought mitigation; sustainable water management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
Development of New Wastewater Treatments for the Efficient Removal of Micropollutants submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1275 | Submission Open
Keywords: circular management of water; ecotoxicity; emerging concern contaminants; environmental monitoring; life cycle assessment; quaternary treatments; reuse of treated wastewater; sustainable treatment processes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Wetland Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment
edited by and Tianxiang Wang
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1170 | 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)
Biological Nitrogen Removal in the Multi-Omics Era: Coupling Anammox with Microbial-Mineral Synergy
edited by Zhaoming Zheng, and
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 912 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable nitrogen removal processes; anaerobic ammonium oxidation; aerobic granular sludge; microbial& ndash; mineral interactions; multi-omics microbial analysis; bioengineering in wastewater treatment; nitrogen biogeo-chemical cycle; detection and removal of emerging pollutants; water quality assurance technologies; resource re-covery from wastewater
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Application of Electrochemical Technologies in Wastewater Treatment
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 824 | Submission Open
Keywords: electrocoagulation; electrooxidation; electro-fenton process; electrodialysis; electrode materials; reactive electrochemical membranes; advanced electrochemical oxidation processes (AEOPs); process modeling and optimization; hybrid electrochemical-biological systems; decentralized wastewater treatment; techno-economic and life cycle assessment (LCA)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Advancing the Monitoring and Modelling of Freshwater Systems with New Remote Sensing Technologies, 2nd Edition submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 734 | 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)
Complexities and Uncertainties of Water Policy, Governance and Management
edited by Liang Yuan, Weijun He and Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 176 | Submission Open
Keywords: complexity; uncertainty; adaptability management; resilience governance; cooperation mechanisms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing in Ecohydrology
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 142 | Submission Open
Keywords: satellite remote sensing; hydrological models; deep learning; data-driven methods
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
Advances in Phytomanagement of Arsenic and Emerging Contaminants in Soil and Water
edited by Patrizia Brunetti and
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil and sewage sludge contamination; water contamination; Arsenic; microplastics; PFASs heavy metals; molecular and morpho-physiological response in plants; advanced monitoring technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation, 2nd Edition
edited by , Jianye Ma and
submission deadline 26 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6850 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil erosion; soil and water conservation; ecohydrology; climate change; vegetation restoration; gully engineering
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Advances in Biological Technologies for Wastewater Treatment
edited by and
submission deadline 27 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 16659 | Submission Open
Keywords: wastewater treatment; biological technologies; nutrient recovery; environmental microbiology; hydrophytes; emerging contaminants; carbon neutrality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Preparation, Characterization and Photocatalytic Degradation of the Sulfate Oxidants for Water Treatment
edited by
submission deadline 28 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 152 | Submission Open
Keywords: sulfate radicals; AOP; photocatalytic degradation; radical reaction kinetics; catalyst characterization; catalyst synthesis and optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Hydrodynamics in Pressurized Pipe Systems
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12349 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrodynamics; hydraulics; pressurized water pipelines; transient flow; unsteady flow
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Hydrological Processes and Hydrologic Disasters
edited by Huaxiang Yan and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6094 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence technologies; groundwater transport; hydrological processes; hydrologic disasters; hydrologi-cal modelling; machine learning; soil water
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
Application of Bioremediation in Groundwater and Soil Pollution
edited by Aizhong Ding and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3267 | Submission Open
Keywords: bioremediation; enhanced bioremediation; natural attenuation; natural source zone depletion; green and sustainable remediation; mechanisms of microbial detoxification; soil pollutants; groundwater pollutants
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
New Methods and Technologies of Urban Flood Forecasting, Risk Assessment and Response
edited by Ganggang Zuo and Jiancang Xie
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3133 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban flood; flood forecasting; risk assessment; artificial intelligence; flood response
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Impact of Climate Change on Water and Soil Erosion
edited by and Xinliang Wu
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2920 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; water and soil erosion; sediment transport; runoff; land use changes; precipitation extremes; carbon cycle
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)
Research on the Carbon and Water Cycle in Aquatic Ecosystems
edited by Kun Sun and Junjie Jia
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1322 | Submission Open
Keywords: aquatic ecosystem; inland water; carbon cycle; carbon budget; carbon metabolism; biogeochemistry; ecohydrology; greenhouse gas emission
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)
Water Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration: 2nd Edition
edited by and Xin Leng
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 906 | 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)
Spatial Linkages Between Geographical Environments and Health Indicators: From Water Quality Parameters to Regional Health Status
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 834 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental health biomarkers; spatial heterogeneity; regional health disparities; pollutant transport and transformation; health risk assessment; environmental medicine interdisciplinarity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Innovative Green Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Sludge Valorization Towards a Circular Economy
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 593 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable wastewater treatment; sewage sludge valorization; resource recovery; circular economy; green chemistry; nutrients circulation; advanced pretreatment technology; low-carbon technologies; life-cycle assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
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