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Algae-Based Technology for Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Binghan Xie

and Mengqi Zheng

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1302 | Submission Open

Keywords: algae; unbalanced nutrient; emerging contaminants; refractory organics; metal ions; resource recovery

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

Advances in Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture: Practices, Ecosystems, and Socio-Economic Perspectives

edited by Tomasz Kajetan Czarkowski and

Krzysztof Kupren

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 961 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable fisheries and aquaculture; sustainable fisheries and aquaculture management; ecosystem impacts of fisheries; impacts of climate change; socio-economic dimension in sustainable fisheries and aquaculture

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

Flood and Storm-Induced Cascade Disasters: Effects, Risks, Resilience, and Adaptive Strategies

edited by

Michalis Diakakis

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 957 | Submission Open

Keywords: floods; storms; cascade disasters; cascade effects; domino effects; impacts

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

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Hydraulic Engineering, 2nd Edition

edited by

Lin Cheng

Chunhui Ma

and

Jie Yang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 888 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; hydraulic engineering; safety monitoring; mechanism and data fusion; numerical simu-lation

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

Environmental Biotechnology Applied to Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes

edited by

Xiaohu Li

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 883 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; biotechnology; anaerobic digestion; aerobic digestion; biomembrane; activated sludge; bioelectrochemistry

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

Advances in Soil Water Dynamics Research

edited by Junfeng Chen and

Jing Xue

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 658 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil water; climate change; hydrothermal transport; model; remote sensing

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

Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in Ocean Engineering—Second Edition

edited by

Zhipeng Zang

and

Ming Zhao

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 506 | Submission Open

Keywords: waves and tidal current; internal waves; submarine pipeline/cables; flow/wave– structure interactions; local scour/seabed evolution; renewable energy

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

Monitoring Earth Surface Processes with RADAR: UAV and Satellite Applications for Land and Water Management

edited by

Bernardo M. Cândido

and

Daniel L. Evans

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 425 | Submission Open

Keywords: RADAR remote sensing; UAV-based RADAR; satellite-based RADAR; soil erosion; land and water management; hydrological modeling

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

Water Resource Management: Watershed and Groundwater Pollution

edited by Claus Kohfahl

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 387 | Submission Open

Keywords: watershed management; groundwater pollution; hydrological modeling; water quality; artificial recharge (MAR); surface-groundwater interactions; climate change adaptation; water resource sustainability; Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)

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

Contaminant Transport, Risk Assessment, and Ecological Impacts in Karst

edited by

Wei Liu

Wei Chen

and Matej Blatnik

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 275 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater and surface contamination; hydrological processes; contaminant transport; environmental risk evaluation; ecological impacts; karst systems

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

Climate Modeling and Impacts of Climate Change on Hydrological Cycle

edited by Yi Wang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 245 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate models; hydrological cycle; water resource management; extreme hydrological events; ecohydrological response; greenhouse gas emission scenarios (RCPs)

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

Hydraulic Characteristics of Hydrate-Bearing Sediment

edited by

Yanlu Ding

Hailong Lu

and Xiaoqiang Liu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 203 | Submission Open

Keywords: permeability; gas production; multi-phase flow; computational fluid dynamics; sand production

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

Application of Photocatalysis in Water and Wastewater Treatment: Advances and Perspectives

edited by Iqra Nabi and

Aziz Ur Rahim Bacha

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 187 | Submission Open

Keywords: photocatalysis; water treatment; wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation processes; nanomaterials; visible-light photocatalysts; organic and inorganic pollutants removal; water pollution; photocatalytic reactor design; environmental applications

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

Advances in Groundwater Resource Development: Innovative Methods and Technologies

edited by Zhuo Zhang and

Adimalla Narsimha

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater pollution; anthropogenic activities; heavy metal; microbial pollution; organic pollution; inorganic pollution; source apportionment; numerical simulation; machine learning; groundwater pollution remediation; health risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Numerical Modelling in Hydraulic Engineering

edited by

Ahmed Reda

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 140 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal numerical modelling; hydrodynamic simulations; fluid– structure interaction; sediment transport modelling; offshore and harbor engineering; risk assessment and hazard prediction; AI and machine learning in hydraulic modelling; climate change adaptation strategies; nature-based coastal protection; numerical validation and field applications

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

Electrocatalysis in Action: From Clean Water to Green Energy

edited by

André Torres-Pinto

and

Hanane Boumeriame

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrocatalysis; hydrogen; water splitting; hydrogen peroxide; wastewater treatment; semiconductors; sustainable energy conversion

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

Integrated Ecohydrological Modelling for Sustainable Water Resource Management in Changing Environments

edited by

Songjun Wu

Xiaoguang Xu

and

Ji Liu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 121 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modelling; ecohydrological modelling; water cycling; climate change; management practises; ecohydrological response

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Ecohydraulics and Fish Behavior Simulation

edited by

Tiegang Zheng

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 109 | Submission Open

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

Aquaculture Water Safety, 2nd Edition

edited by

Xingguo Liu

Jun Xie

and

Jie Wang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 96 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquaculture; aquaculture engineering; water quality control; aquaculture wastewater treatment; green and low-carbon aquaculture

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

Treatment of Maricultural Wastewater

edited by Xiaoyan Fan,

Yuankun Liu

and Zedong Lu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 94 | Submission Open

Keywords: biological maricultural wastewater treatment; toxicity assessment; nutrients or emerging pollutant removal; combined pollution; microbial community; antibiotic resistance genes; advanced oxidation technology; membrane filtration technology; energy recovery; resource recovery and circular utilization

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

Petroleum and Plastic Biodegradation and Bioremediation in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Carlos Costa

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: petroleum biodegradation; plastic biodegradation; water pollution by petroleum; microplastics

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

Mechanism and Simulation of Water Erosion and Nutrient Loss on Hillslopes

edited by

Chang Ao

and Weiming Xing

submission deadline 21 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7547 | Submission Open

Keywords: hillslope; soil nutrients; surface runoff; soil loss; hydrological simulation; dynamic mechanisms; simulation models; nutrient loss control

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

Challenges and Innovations in Resilience of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

edited by

G.-Fivos Sargentis

Nikolaos Malamos

and

Theano Iliopoulou

submission deadline 22 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 269 | Submission Open

Keywords: water-energy-food nexus; prosperity; technology water-energy-food nexus; self-sufficient communities; historic famine and plagues due to water-energy-food nexus

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

Science and Technology for Water Purification, 2nd Edition

edited by Yuanfeng Qi and Kai He

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8952 | Submission Open

Keywords: recycling and resources; pollutant removal; by-product remedy; process management; specific fillers and carriers; processing models; reactors; wastewater engineering; identification and analysis

(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 25 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4467 | 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)

Advanced Nanomaterials for Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Chandran Krishnaraj

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3545 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced nanomaterials for waste water treatment; nanomaterials for drinking water treatment; nanomembranes; nanomaterials for water reuse; nanosensors for water quality

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

Exposure, Ecological Effects and Risk Assessment of Emerging Contaminants in Water Environment

edited by Jing Guo

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2172 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; non-targeted screening; effect-directed analysis; high-throughput bioassay; ecological risk

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

Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management

edited by

Koichiro Kuraji

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1778 | Submission Open

Keywords: economics of watershed management; forest hydrology; natural disaster prevension; natural flood management; sustainable forest management; watershed management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Soil Erosion and Sedimentation by Water

edited by

and

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1765 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; sediment yield; soil conservation; erosion plot; basin; sheet erosion; channelized erosion; erosion risk mapping

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

Machine Learning Applications in the Water Domain

edited by

Yonggui Wang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1443 | 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)

Membrane Technology for Water Treatment and Reuse

edited by Lijun Meng and

Xin Liu

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1180 | Submission Open

Keywords: membrane technology; water treatment; water reuse; desalination; membrane fouling; membrane wetting; advanced membrane materials; green membrane; machine learning; organic pollutants

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

Transboundary River Management

edited by Carl Grundy-Warr

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1138 | Submission Open

Keywords: transboundary rivers; transboundary river management and contested water resources; transboundary institutions and forms of governance; transboundary river geopolitics and international relations; hydro-social relations and water resources; the role of NGOs; social movements; and civil society in transboundary river systems

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

Precision Irrigation Water-Saving Technology Under Changing Climates

edited by Xiangping Guo and

Imran Ali Lakhiar

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 744 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision irrigation systems; climate-smart irrigation practices; sustainable agricultural water management; irrigation scheduling and automation; soil moisture sensors and monitoring; remote sensing for water management; UAVs for water management; smart irrigation technologies; agricultural water management under climate change; automated irrigation and IoT in agriculture; evapotranspiration measurement and modeling; water-use optimization through farm machinery

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

Trends in Effective Removal of Emerging Organic Pollutants from Drinking Water and Wastewater

edited by

Talis Juhna

and

Kamila Gruskevica

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 727 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural organic matter (NOM); emerging organic pollutants; persistent organic pollutants; microplastics; endocrine disruptors; antibiotics; drinking water; wastewater; landfill leachate; advanced oxidation; coagulants and coagulation aids; membrane technologies; biological treatments (e.g.; with fungi and algae); foam fractionation

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

POPs in Water Environment: Migration, Transformation and Risk Assessment

edited by

Hao Chen

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 170 | Submission Open

Keywords: persistent organic pollutants (POPs); emissions; migration; environmental behavior; transformation; risk assessment

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

Fate and Transport of Contaminants in Soil and Water

edited by

Changyin Zhu

Da Ouyang

and

Hui Wang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 84 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; micropollutants; soil pollution; water pollution; contaminant remediation; source identifi-cation; fate; and transport; degradation and by-products; numerical modelling

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

Soil Water Use and Irrigation Management

edited by

Roman Rolbiecki

Stanisław Rolbiecki

and

Barbara Jagosz

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 15154 | Submission Open

Keywords: water management; crop water requirements; soil hydraulic properties; sustainable development of rural areas; soil fertility; drip irrigation; soil and water relationship; evapotranspiration; precision agriculture; irrigation and drainage systems

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

Water Governance: Current Status and Future Trends

edited by

Robert Patrick

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7717 | Submission Open

Keywords: water; wastewater; governance; environmental justice; water management; water planning; watersheds

(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 30 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6818 | Submission Open

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

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

Rivers, Estuaries, and Coastal Zones: Sediment Transport and Morphodynamical Models

edited by Leszek M. Kaczmarek

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5847 | Submission Open

Keywords: granular transport; sediment mixtures; morphodynamics; rivers; estuaries; coastal zones; bedload; contact load; suspended load

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

Optimization-Simulation Modeling of Sustainable Water Resource

edited by Zhaocai Wang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5071 | 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)

Recent Advances in Offshore Hydrodynamics

edited by

Chongwei Zhang

and Xuanlie Zhao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2478 | Submission Open

Keywords: waves– structure interaction; offshore engineering; hydrodynamic analysis; ocean renewable energy; fixed and floating offshore wind turbines

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

Advances in Hydraulic and Water Resources Research (3rd Edition)

edited by

Majid Mohammadian

Xiaohui Yan

and

Hossein Kheirkhah Gildeh

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2264 | Submission Open

Keywords: modeling; lab studies; field studies; coastal engineering; river engineering; lakes

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

Emerging Pollutants in Processing of Wastewater

edited by

Yuyang Long

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1198 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging pollutants; emerging pollutants removal; waste/water processing; migration of emerging pollutants; distribution of EPs

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

Hydrological and Hydrochemical Drivers of Solute Export from Watersheds

edited by

Maksym Gusyev

Mark Zheleznyak

and Boris Faybishenko

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 651 | Submission Open

Keywords: solute export; watershed hydrology; hydrochemistry; tracers; nutrients; organic pollutants; metals; radionuclides; runoff; groundwater; modeling

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

Advanced Treatment Technologies for Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater

edited by

Xiayuan Wu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 313 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; advanced treatment technologies; adsorption methods; advanced oxidation processes (AOPs); membrane filtration; hybrid treatment systems; bioremediation; sustainable water management; nanomaterials; water quality restoration

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

Applied Agricultural and Environmental Hydrogeology: From Field Monitoring to Numerical Approaches

edited by Massimiliano Schiavo,

Nicolò Colombani

Abelardo Antònio de Montenegro

and Eleonora Carol

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open

Keywords: applied hydrogeology; monitoring; numerical modeling; geochemistry; geostatistics; machine learning; agricultural engineering; salinization; environmental engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Microbial Ecology and Application of Microbial Technology in Wastewater Treatment

edited by