Water

Wastewater Resourceization: Pioneering the Future of Sustainable Water

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submission deadline 28 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1351 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation; nanomaterials; adsorption; membrane bioreactor; membrane fouling control; membrane modification; wastewater resource utilization; immobilized microorganisms/enzymes

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

Monitoring and Assessment of Water Quality in Drinking Water Distribution Systems

edited by Hui Zhang and Dan Zhong

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 26884 | Submission Open

Keywords: water distribution system; drinking water; water quality; monitoring; water quality indicator; water quality analysis; pollutant; risk assessment; water quality management; modeling

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

Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Gender, Community-Based Approaches, and Local Governance in Mitigating Water-Related Hazards

edited by

Ashfaq Ahmad Shah

and Wahid Ullah

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10446 | Submission Open

Keywords: inclusive disaster risk reduction; community resilience and vulnerability; local governance and disaster risk reduction; community-based disaster risk management; socio-economic impacts of water hazards; nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation; water hazards and social inequalities; gender based violence in response to water hazards

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

Effects of Hydrology on Soil Erosion and Soil Water Conservation

edited by Yifan Dong,

Mingming Guo

and

Dan Yang

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4603 | Submission Open

Keywords: water erosion; splash erosion; rainfall; overland flow; concentrated flow; jet flow; infiltration; subsurface flow; modeling; soil conservation

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

Study of Hydrological Mechanisms: Floods and Landslides

edited by Prabin Kayastha

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4082 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydology; landslides; floods; numerical model; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Hydrogeology

edited by

Heng Lu

,

Xiaoai Dai

and Lei Ma

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2636 | Submission Open

Keywords: GIS and remote sensing; hydrology and hydrogeology; hydrological modeling and simulation; water resource management; flood and drought monitoring; climate change impact analysis

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

Sources, Transport, and Fate of Contaminants in Waters and Sediment

edited by

Feipeng Li

and

Chunzhao Chen

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2083 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; sediment and sediment contamination; pollutant transport and transport models; aquatic ecosystems; sediment-water exchange and interactions; toxicity; water-sediment exchange

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

Application of Machine Learning in Hydrological Monitoring

edited by

Yusuf Sermet

and Zhouyayan Li

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1844 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; hydrological monitoring; AI-driven models; data augmentation; flood forecasting; water quality analysis; decision support systems; streamflow prediction; data retrieval techniques; large language models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Security and Management of Water and Renewable Energy

edited by

Gordon Huang

,

Yongping Li

and

Guangwei Huang

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1839 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated resource management; technological innovations; security risks and policy and governance; renewable energy and sustainable development; security of water and energy

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

Climate Change Adaptation in Water Resource Management

edited by

Athanasios Loukas

and

Aikaterini Lyra

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1375 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change adaptation; water resources management; policy and governance; hydrological modeling; groundwater; climate downscaling; integrated water resources management (IWRM); seawater intrusion; water quality; sustainable water systems; agricultural catchment; floods; droughts

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

Hydrogeophysical Methods and Hydrogeological Models

edited by Quan Liu and

Rui Hu

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1351 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrogeophysics; groundwater modeling; aquifer characterization; uncertainty analysis; machine learning methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advancing Hydro-Environmental Research and Practice: Integrating Ecohydrology, Remote Sensing and Hydroinformatics

edited by

Manousos Valyrakis

,

Gudrun Hillebrand

and

Rui M. L. Ferreira

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 754 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulic measurements; ecohydrology; remote sensing; hydroinformatics; sediment transport; laser doppler velocimetry; acoustic methods; lidar technology; predictive modeling; sustainable water management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Water Management and Uses: Comprehensive Analysis of Landscape, Heritage and Environment

edited by

Patricia Fernández-Aracil

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 710 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources management; environmental impacts; resilience; landscape; heritage; socioeconomic analysis; legal assessment; policymaking; nature-based solutions

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

Impacts of Contaminants on Aquatic Ecosystems and Strategies for Water Quality Improvement

edited by

Zhiguo Yu

,

Sven Frei

and Taotao Lu

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 312 | Submission Open

Keywords: contaminant behavior; water quality assessment; aquatic ecosystem stability; remediation technologies; sus-tainable water management

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

Sustainable Biodegradation and Bioremediation of Organic Contaminants in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments

edited by Elżbieta Sobiecka,

Anna Gronba-Chyła

and Dorota Mańkowska

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 151 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodegradation and bioremediation; biological treatment of aquatic and terrestrial environments; persistent organic pollutants; toxic organic compounds; organic industrial and municipal waste

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Reservoir Control Operation and Water Resources Management, 2nd Edition

edited by Yuxue Guo,

Jingkai Xie

and Hao Chen

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 13 articles | Viewed by 19026 | Submission Open

Keywords: water; food; and energy; reservoir operation; water resources management; changing environment; uncertainty; risk; artificial intelligence

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

ANAMMOX Based Technology for Nitrogen Removal from Wastewater

edited by Cancan Jiang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13558 | Submission Open

Keywords: anammox; partial nitrification; greenhouse gas; quorum sensing; bacterial community

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

Groundwater Quality and Human Health Risk, 2nd Edition

edited by

Dimitrios E. Alexakis

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13173 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater geochemistry; groundwater contamination; groundwater composition and human health risk; groundwater quality; inorganic compounds; organic compounds; trace elements; arsenic; antimony; chromium; microbes; radionuclides; groundwater protection and preservation; groundwater remediation; groundwater treatment technologies

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

Recent Advances in Hydraulic Machinery and Its Application in Marine Engineering

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11966 | Submission Open

Keywords: design method; optimizing strategy; flow characteristics; transient process; cavitation; erosion; numerical method; tidal energy; wave energy; marine hydrokinetics; environmentally friendly

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

Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation, 2nd Edition

edited by

Peng Li

, Jianye Ma and

Binhua Zhao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9129 | 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 the Treatment of Refractory Organic Wastewater

edited by

Nannan Wang

and

Xuejiao Ma

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2945 | Submission Open

Keywords: adsorption; Fenton-like catalyst; physical fields enhancement; electro-assissted treatment; nutrients; microplastic

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

The Innovations in Anaerobic Digestion Technology

edited by Xiang Cheng and Yin Xu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 813 | Submission Open

Keywords: process enhancement; hybrid configuration; pre- and post-treatment; co-digestion; biogas upgrading; resource recovery; circular economy

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

Working Across Borders to Address Water Scarcity

edited by

Sharon B. Megdal

and Rosario Sanchez

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 682 | Submission Open

Keywords: transboundary water management; water scarcity; water sharing; water storage; policy and governance in water-scarce regions

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

Eco-Engineered Solutions for Industrial Wastewater

edited by

Luciana Pereira

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 299 | Submission Open

Keywords: constructed wetlands; industrial wastewater; nature-based solutions; sustainable substrates; tidal flow systems; dye and surfactant removal; microbial ecology; eco-engineering; low-cost materials; circular economy

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

The Application of Electrochemical Methods in Water Treatment, 2nd Edition

edited by

Minhua Cui

and

Guoshuai Liu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 284 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrochemistry; electrode; pollution; reaction process and mechanism; sensors; wastewater; water

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

Advances in the Treatment of Micropollutants and Microplastics: From Laboratory Studies to Machine Learning

edited by Mingizem Gashaw Seid

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 279 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxydation processes; electrochemistry; environmental pollution; degradation mechanisms; persistent micropollutants; perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA); pharmaceuticals; photocatalysis; peroxide chemistry; sustainable biochar; UV-based degradation; wastewater

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

Agricultural Impacts on Water Quality

edited by

Susanne Wuijts

, Gitte Blicher-Mathiesen,

Richard van Duijnen

, Björn Tetzlaff, Lærke Thorling and Frank Wendland

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use and water quality; agricultural impacts; groundwater; surface waters; monitoring; modelling; management; implementation of measures; assessment of policies for water quality

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

Climate and Water: Impacts of Climate Change on Hydrological Processes and Water Resources, 2nd Edition

edited by

Zhongsheng Chen

and

Jianhua Xu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 98 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; hydrological cycle; climate-related hydrological processes; distributed model; statistical analysis; water resource and its utilization; future scenario simulation; remote sensing application; GIS application

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

Sources, Migration and Variation Characteristics of Pollutants in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Zuobing Liang

and

Jie Zeng

submission deadline 5 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 225 | Submission Open

Keywords: karst aquifer vulnerability; pollution transport mechanisms; heavy metal contamination; integrated water management; climate change interactions

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

Water Treatment Technology for Emerging Contaminants, 2nd Edition

edited by

Wenjie Zhang

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12314 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging pollutants; water treatment technologies; innovation and development; water environment; research and applications

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

Microalgae Control and Utilization: Challenges and Perspectives

edited by

Costanza Baldisserotto

and

Tania Mazzuca Sobczuk

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11871 | Submission Open

Keywords: microalgae; cultivation of microalgae; phytoremediation; wastewaters; algal bloom; microalgal toxins

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

Water and Society: Challenges for Freshwater Quality Under a Climate Change Scenario

edited by

Daniela R. De Figueiredo

and

Patrícia S. M. Santos

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7527 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; freshwater ecosystems; water quality; societal challenges

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

Crop Evapotranspiration, Crop Irrigation and Water Savings

edited by

Luis Santos Pereira

and

Paula Paredes

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5123 | Submission Open

Keywords: the use of FAO crop coefficients and transpiration coefficients; evapotranspiration; aerodynamic and bulk canopy resistance; evapotranspiration; irrigation scheduling and water saving; tree evapotranspiration; traditional and under-utilized vegetable crops; remote sensing and irrigation scheduling; crop management for controlling ET and yield; precision irrigation; irrigation scheduling using crop coefficients from fraction of ground cover and height; use of model tools

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

Novel Advanced Oxidation Technology for Water Treatment

edited by Pengwei Yan, Lei Yuan and Jimin Shen

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1480 | Submission Open

Keywords: UV; oxidants; water purification; reactive oxygen species; underlying mechanism

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

Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Emerging Issues in Urban Wastewater Treatment Following EU’s Wastewater Treatment Directive Recast

edited by

Andrea G. Capodaglio

and

Jiangyong Hu

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1134 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban wastewater treatment; sanitation in small communities; nutrients and emerging pollutants treatment; water reuse and recycle; energy and resources recovery: energy neutrality and audits in WWTPs; sewage and effluents monitoring

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

Ecohydraulics and Fish Behavior Simulation

edited by

Tiegang Zheng

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 758 | Submission Open

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

Application of Isotope Geochemistry in Hydrological Research

edited by

Tamara Marković

and Petra Žvab Rožič

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 533 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological and hydrogeological research; isotope geochemistry; satable and radiogenic isotopes conceptual models; hydrogeological assessment; water resource management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Advanced Technologies in Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Achisa Cleophas Mecha

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12916 | Submission Open

Keywords: water and wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation processes; membrane separation; electrochemical processes; nanotechnology; desalination; water quality monitoring; water reuse

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

Use of Remote Sensing Technologies for Water Resources Management

edited by

Anuj Tiwari

and Anukesh Krishnan Kutty Ambika

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12747 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite remote sensing; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); LiDAR hydrology; ground-based remote sensing; geospatial intelligence; hydrological modeling; flood and drought prediction; hazardous algal blooms (HABs); waterborne disease monitoring

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

Water Supply System Reliability, Resilience, Safety and Risk Modelling & Assessment, 3rd Edition

edited by

Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik

and

Janusz Rak

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11153 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial inteligence ; contamination ; crisis situation ; cybersecurity in water supply systems ; data-driven decision-making; digital twin ; diversification ; failure risk analysis ; hazard identification ; innovative methodologies ; IoT ; machine learning ; manage drinking water supply safety ; matrix ; neural networks ; optimal network design ; prediction models ; reliability-based risk assessment ; resilience ; risk analysis ; risk and vulnerability assessment ; risk assessment methodology ; safety ; smart metering ; techniques and technology for smart water systems ; the rehabilitation of water distribution networks ; the safety of water supply systems ; water demand modeling ; water distribution networks ; water– energy nexus ; water losses ; water network failure analysis ; water quality ; water quality monitoring ; water safety plans ; water supply systems ; water treatment

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

Major Water Conservancy and Hydropower Project Hub Layout and Hydraulic Innovation Technology

edited by

Shiqiang Wu

,

Fangfang Wang

,

Ang Gao

and Shicheng Li

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3993 | Submission Open

Keywords: high dams; large reservoirs; engineering hydraulic safety; high-speed flow; safety assessments; new technologies; deep drainage; two-phase flow

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

Water–Rock Interaction

edited by Teng Ma and

Liuzhu Chen

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2126 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– rock interaction; groundwater; aquifer; geochemistry of groundwater system; hydrochemistry; isotopes; eco-environmental effect; ecological health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

New Technologies to Ensure Safe Drinking Water

edited by Yizhen Cheng,

Bin Liu

and Pengwei Yan

submission deadline 17 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 118 | Submission Open

Keywords: water treatment; oxidation technology; coagulation; fouling behavior; environmental microbiology technology

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

Water, Geohazards, and Artificial Intelligence, 2nd Edition

edited by

Reza Derakhshani

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15619 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslides; slope stability; artificial intelligence; experiments and models; natural hazards; porous media; geotechnical hazards; geomorphology and climate change; remote sensing and GIS analysis; morphotectonics; water basins; watershed morphometric indices; debris flow; water table; groundwater seepage; failure mechanism; hydrogeology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Application of Various Hydrological Modeling Techniques and Methods in River Basin Management, 2nd Edition

edited by Ankur Srivastava,

Venkataramana Sridhar

and

Nikul Kumari

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11023 | Submission Open

Keywords: freshwater; hydrological model; machine learning; streamflow; evapotranspiration; soil moisture; remote sensing; land use/land cover change; drought; flood; crop water requirement; irrigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Wastewater Treatment and Public Health Surveillance: Advances and Challenges in the One Health Era

edited by

José Gonçalves

and Israel Diaz

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9006 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; one health; wastewater-based epidemiology; emerging pollutants; antimicrobial resistance; microplastics; environmental monitoring; biosensors

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

Advances in Extreme Hydrological Events Modeling

edited by Majid Mirzaei

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8173 | Submission Open

Keywords: extreme hydrological events; extreme precipitation; frequency analysis; drought; floods; climate change impacts; uncertainty analysis; data assimilation; hydrological modeling; machine learning; deep learning

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

Regional Geomorphological Characteristics and Sedimentary Processes

edited by

Aqsa Anees

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7408 | Submission Open

Keywords: geomorphology and sediment transport; deposition and erosion; geomorphological features; reservoir sedimenta-tion; climate change impacts; fluvial dynamics; hydrodynamic conditions; paleoenvironmental reconstructions; GIS applications; sedimentary records; geological modeling; environmental management

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

Aquaculture, Fisheries, Ecology and Environment

edited by

Ta-Jen Chu

, Wen-Shu Huang and

Tian-Sheng Chen

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6328 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquaculture innovation; aquaculture systems and environments; biology for aquaculture; aquatic genetics and breeding; coastal cage farms; aquatic animal nutrition and feed; resource assessment and sustainable management; smart aquaculture; smart fisheries; sustainable water environment

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

The Role of Vegetation in Freshwater Ecology

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