Water

Advanced Chemical and Biological Technologies for Water Purification and Contaminant Degradation

edited by Zhanghao Chen and Longgang Chu

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 986 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation and reduction; photocatalysis and electrocatalysis; biotechnologies; radical chemistry; contaminant degradation

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

Membrane Technologies for Biofouling Prevention in Water: Theory, Methods and Applications

edited by

Mònica Reig

and Guillem Gilabert-Oriol

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 291 | Submission Open

Keywords: biofouling; fouling; organic fouling; reverse osmosis; membranes; nanofiltration; desalination; water treatment; wastewater; brackish water; seawater; bacteria; biofilms

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

Urban Water Management: Challenges and Prospects, 2nd Edition

edited by

Nelson Carriço

and Maria do Céu Almeida

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 233 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban water infrastructure; sustainable water management; urban drainage systems; resilient water systems; climate change adaptation; green infrastructure; smart water technologies; urban water governance; circular water economy

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

Contaminants in Aquatic Systems: Biogeochemical Processes, Ecological Impacts

edited by

Zhenjie Zhao

, Zengping Ning and

Chen Ling

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 216 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic ecosystems; heavy metals; PFAS; POPs; emerging pollutants; ecological risk assessment; water quality; redox processes

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

Microplastics and Microfiber Pollution in Aquatic Environments

edited by Adriano Fiorucci and

Valentina Balestra

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 210 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics; microfibres; water pollution; water quality; waste water; water ecosystems

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

Application of Smart Technologies in Integrated Water Quality Modeling, 2nd Edition

edited by Tianxiang Wang and

Haiyan Zhang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 196 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental model; assessment method; statistic model; mechanism model; regional indicators; machine learning; water resource

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

Precision Irrigation Management and Soil Moisture Optimization in Agroecosystems

edited by

Nawab Ali

and

Younsuk Dong

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 182 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision irrigation; water use effeciency; irrigation effeciency; sensing technologies; smart irrigation; variable rate irrigation; irrigation schedulling; deficit irrigation; evapotranspiration; soil-plant-water relation; IoT in irrigation; decision tools; simulation modelling

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

Advanced Oxidation Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Qiao Wang

, Huarui Li and Jialin Jia

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation technologies; water treatment; pollutant removal; catalyst design; oxidation mechanisms

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

Advances in Research on Hydrology and Water Resources

edited by

Md Jahangir Alam

,

Monzur Imteaz

and

Faisal Anwar

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 147 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrology; water resources; extreme climate; climate change; drought and floods; AI and machine learning in water management; low-flow simulation; enviromental pollution; cultural flows; river basin

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Rural Wastewater Treatment by Nature-Based Solutions

edited by

Rui Zhang

and

Xuetong Yang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 138 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural wastewater treatment; water reuse; nature-based solutions; life cycle assessment; techno-economic analysis; resource recovery; sustainability

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

Biochar’s Role in Water-Stable Soils and Remediation

edited by

Mohammad Ghorbani

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: biochar; soil hydraulic properties; water retention; infiltration; soil– water interactions; soil amendment; soil water holding capacity; hydrological modeling; climate resilience; sustainable land management

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

Bridge Hydraulics: Current State of the Knowledge and Perspectives, 2nd Edition

edited by

Giuseppe Oliveto

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open

Keywords: bridge hydraulics; bridge scour; bridge embankment breaching; bridge scour countermeasures; bridge monitoring techniques; fluvial hydraulics; sediment transport

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

Drought Risk Assessment and Human Vulnerability in the 21st Century, 2nd Edition

edited by

João Filipe Santos

and

Miguel Potes

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 97 | Submission Open

Keywords: drought risk assessment; climate change; human and environmental vulnerability; resilience building; IPCC scenarios

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

Ecological Influence Assessment on the Occurrence and Control of Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms in Aquatic Habitats

edited by

Jieming Li

and

Peng Xiao

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open

Keywords: harmful cyanobacterial bloom; occurrence; control; cyanotoxin; ecological consequence; biogeochemical process

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)

Innovative Technologies for Comprehensive Management of Urban Water Pollution

edited by Yang Li

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 69 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban water pollution; advanced wastewater treatment; monitoring systems; stormwater management; wetlands; resource recovery; emerging contaminants; decentralized systems; smart water governance

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

Low-Carbon Technologies and Digital Solutions for Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Tao Zhang

and Alice Boarino

submission deadline 21 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4119 | Submission Open

Keywords: low-carbon technologies; machine learning; artificial intelligence; wastewater treatment; circular economy; biomass; organic waste; nutrient recovery

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

Ship and Ocean Engineering

edited by

Yu Hu

and

Liang Sun

submission deadline 23 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3280 | Submission Open

Keywords: fixed and floating offshore wind turbines; cables and mooring; wave loads; wind loads

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

Aquaculture Productivity and Environmental Sustainability

edited by Changwei Li,

Wenchang Liu

and Gang Liu

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9824 | Submission Open

Keywords: recirculating aquaculture systems; aquaculture engineering; wastewater treatment; environmental sustainability; precise farming management; smart aquaculture

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

Basin Non-Point Source Pollution

edited by

Lei Chen

, Qiuliang Lei and Cheng Sun

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6462 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-point source pollution; watershed model; best management practices; watershed management; agricultural management

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

Risk Characterization, Assessment, and Management Derived from Water for Environmental/Human Health

edited by

Cheng Yan

and

Annalaura Carducci

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5879 | Submission Open

Keywords: water and human development; water pollution; risk assessment; environmental health risks; human health risks; hazard identification; dose– response assessment; exposure assessment; risk characterization

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

Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Addressing Critical Challenges Related to Water Resources

edited by

Abdeltif Amrane

and

Jie Zhang

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5585 | Submission Open

Keywords: water treatment; water management; contaminants; artificial intelligence; deep learning applications; predictive modeling

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

Applications of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Technologies in Soil Moisture Monitoring

edited by

Lingli Zhao

,

Hongtao Shi

and

Weidong Sun

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3658 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture inversion; mulit-source remote sensing technologies; data fusion

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

Protection and Restoration of Freshwater Ecosystems

edited by

Ivana Buj

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2905 | Submission Open

Keywords: conservation activities; ecological restoration; ecological state; extinction risk; freshwater environments; protection of biodiversity; threats to freshwater environments

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)

River Science: Integrated Management of Water Resources in the Anthropocene, 2nd Edition

edited by

Martin Schletterer

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1573 | Submission Open

Keywords: river science; monitoring; multiple stressors; hydrobiology; hydromorphology; river restoration; habitat modeling

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

Snow and Glacier Hydrology in Changing Climate and Urbanisation

edited by Mohd Soheb

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 527 | Submission Open

Keywords: glaciers; snowmelt; hydrology; runoff; water management; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Hydrogeology of the Mining Area

edited by

Abdelkabir Maqsoud

and

Ana Teresa Luís

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 290 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrogeological characterization; hydrogeological modeling; dewatering; open pit; deep mining; hydrochemistry; backfill; environmental impact; mine site reclamation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Resilient Water Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Agroecosystems

edited by

Eeswaran Rasu

and

Prakash Kumar Jha

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 202 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural water management; seasonal climate forecasting and smart irrigation technologies; options for water-efficient rainfed agriculture; soil moisture sensors and IoT for decision support in irrigation; rainwater harvesting; reservoirs and tank management for agriculture in arid regions

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

Using Artificial Intelligence for Smart Water Management, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jianjun Ni

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; smart water; Internet of Things; machine learning; automation; robotics

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

Machine Learning in Water Distribution Systems and Sewage Systems

edited by Jacek Piekarski and

Jacek Dawidowicz

submission deadline 26 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2047 | Submission Open

Keywords: water distribution systems; sewage systems; stormwater systems; hydraulic simulations; artificial intelligence models; machine learning; deep learning models; evolutionary computation; fuzzy inference

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

Advances in AI, Numerical, and Experimental Approaches for Water Resources Applications

edited by

Mario Maiolo

and

Guglielmo Federico Antonio Brunetti

submission deadline 26 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1032 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; numerical modelling; remote sensing; experimental hydraulics; nature-based solutions; coastal risk mitigation; water distribution systems; climate change adaptation; hydrology; water resource applications

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

Using Machine Learning Methods for Agricultural Water Cycle Assessment

edited by

Ze Liu

submission deadline 27 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6465 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural water resources; machine learning; water demand; big data; features

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

Wastewater Resourceization: Pioneering the Future of Sustainable Water

edited by

Lei Qin

submission deadline 28 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 945 | 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 | 8 articles | Viewed by 22989 | 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 8515 | 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 4030 | 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 3542 | 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 1890 | 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 1577 | 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 1503 | 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 1296 | 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 918 | 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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 722 | 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 537 | 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)

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 276 | 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)

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

edited by

Patricia Fernández-Aracil

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 244 | 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)

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 113 | 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 | 12 articles | Viewed by 15436 | 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 10955 | Submission Open

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

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

Recent Advances in Hydraulic Machinery and Its Application in Marine Engineering

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10264 | 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)

Groundwater Quality and Human Health Risk, 2nd Edition

edited by

Dimitrios E. Alexakis

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9851 | 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)

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