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Impact of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystems submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5551 | 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 2433 | 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 2377 | 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)
Advancing Data-Driven Approaches in Landscape Hydrology: Innovations and Applications submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1615 | 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)
Rainfall-Induced Landslides: Influencing, Modelling and Hazard Assessment: 2nd Edition
edited by and Danyi Shen
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1011 | Submission Open
Keywords: rainfall; landslides; causes; modelling; hazard assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)
Wetland Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment
edited by and Tianxiang Wang
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 884 | 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)
Development of New Wastewater Treatments for the Efficient Removal of Micropollutants submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 772 | 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)
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 595 | 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)
Advancing the Monitoring and Modelling of Freshwater Systems with New Remote Sensing Technologies, 2nd Edition submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 452 | 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)
Application of Electrochemical Technologies in Wastewater Treatment
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 159 | 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)
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 132 | 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 100 | 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 70 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1496 | 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 13229 | 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 101 | 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 10605 | 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 4733 | 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 2682 | 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 2648 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1834 | 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 1032 | 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)
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 658 | 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)
Water Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration: 2nd Edition
edited by and Xin Leng
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 449 | 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)
The New Nexus: The Interconnection of Climate Change, Source Water Protection, and Public Health
edited by , Shannon Roback and Richard Weisman
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 241 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; water quality; disinfection byproducts; drinking water; public health; source water protection; water infracture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
New Aseismic Technology and Methods in Hydraulic Structures and Geotechnical Engineering
edited by Xiang Yu, and Yongqian Qu
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydraulic structures; geotechnical engineering; soft foundation; numerical simulation; experimental technology; dynamic response; damage behavior; liquefaction; stability; reliability analysis; treatment measure
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Innovative Green Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Sludge Valorization Towards a Circular Economy
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 108 | 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)
Ecosystem, Groundwater, and Soil Contamination: Detection, Impact Assessment, and Remediation Strategies
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental pollution; coastal and estuarine ecosystem health; macrobenthic ecology; environmental sustainability; groundwater contamination; heavy metal contamination in aquatic ecosystems; heavy metal contamination in soils; water– sediment quality assessment; mangrove degradation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Theory and Technology of Water-Induced Geological Disaster Prevention and Water Resource Utilization in Mines
edited by Helong Gu, and Yuan Zhao
submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3954 | Submission Open
Keywords: water-induced geological disasters; utilization of water resources; mine water treatment; fundamental mechanics theory of water-bearing coal rocks; surrounding rock water disasters; loess collapsibility; soil liquefaction
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
Research on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics
edited by and
submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1959 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal geomorphology; coastal sediment dynamics; coastal resilience; river morphodynamics; runoff changes; sediment discharge; estuarine change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Advances in Biological Technologies for Drinking and Wastewater Treatment
edited by , and Alejandro Rodriguez-Sanchez
submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5791 | Submission Open
Keywords: wastewater biological treatment; drinking water treatment; anaerobic reactor systems; aerobic reactor technologies; environmental biotechnology; groundwater treatment; membrane-based bioreactors; granular biomass processes; microbial communities in water and wastewater treatment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Transport of Mixture of Cohesive and Non-Cohesive Sediments in Rivers submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1330 | 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)
The Impacts of Human Activities on the Functional Ecology of Coastal Microbial Communities
edited by Qiuzhen Wang, Xinlong An and
submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1301 | Submission Open
Keywords: human activities; microbial communities; marine pollution; marine conservation; climate change; eutrophication; metagenomics; coastal ecosystems; marine ecological balance; deep sea
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
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 61 | 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, and Hao Gu
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3895 | 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
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2965 | 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 submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2701 | 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 147 | 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 , Nathan Downs and Lila Singh-Peterson
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14824 | 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)
Effects of Groundwater and Surface Water on the Natural Geo-Hazards, 2nd Edition
edited by Xudong Zhang, , , and
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11150 | Submission Open
Keywords: water modeling; soil– water interaction; rock– water interaction; geo-hazards; water-induced problems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
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
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10891 | 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)
Recent Advances in Flood Risk Assessment and Management
edited by Xiaolei Zhang and Xiao Liu
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8112 | 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)
Slope Stability Analyses and Landslide Risk Assessment Under Hydrodynamic Action submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7138 | 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)
Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and the Circular Economy—2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6678 | 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)
Evaluation of Microbiological Indicators for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6496 | 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)
Microplastics Pollution in Aquatic Environments
edited by and Chengtao Li
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5811 | Submission Open
Keywords: microplastics; ecotoxicology; aquatic systems; detection; mitigation strategies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
The Safety Operations and Intelligent Control of Water Network Engineering Systems submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5681 | 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)
Global Water Risks Across Shared River Corridors in Transboundary Basins
edited by , , and Zaichen Xiang
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5576 | 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)
Water Footprint and Energy Sustainability submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4834 | 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)
Applications of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Treatment
edited by , Rui Zhang and Yang Hu
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4692 | 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)
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