Water

Slope Stability Analyses and Risk Assessment for Rainfall-Induced Landslides

edited by

Qihang Li

,

Xiaoshuang Li

and Jiang Song

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3304 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslides; rainfall infiltration; slope stability; physical model experiment; numerical modelling; machine learning; advanced algorithms; failure mechanism; mitigation measures; monitoring and early warning

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

Application of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Purification

edited by

Yi Ren

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2847 | Submission Open

Keywords: water purification; wastewater treatment; water restoration; emerging contaminants; advanced oxidation processes; Fenton-like oxidation; photocatalysis; electrocatalysis; ozonation; non-thermal plasma; electron beam

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

Applications of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Xuetong Yang

, Rui Zhang and Yang Hu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2702 | 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)

Advanced Numerical Approaches for Multiphase and Cavitating Flows

edited by Linmin Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2657 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiphase flow; cavitation; numerical simulation; Eulerian– Lagrangian approach; computational fluid dynamics

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

Research on Water Supply Systems and on the Treatment and Recovery of Wastewater and Stormwater

edited by

António Manuel Abreu Freire Diogo

,

Enedir Ghisi

and

Célia dos Anjos Alves

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1975 | Submission Open

Keywords: water supply systems; water resources management; non-conventional water sources; water supply networks; urban water infrastructures planning; design and rehabilitation; water quality; water treatment; public health; wastewater treatment and reuse; stromwater harvesting; environemtal sustainability

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

Impacts of Climate Change & Human Activities on Wetland Ecosystems

edited by Zhongqing Yan, Guopeng Liang, Yingxin Shang and Xueping Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1898 | Submission Open

Keywords: wetland ecosystems; ecosystem services and functions; protection and restoration; climate change and human activities; wetland hydrological processes; greenhouse gas (GHGs) fluxes; nutrient cycle and energy flow; water environment quality

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

Marine Biodiversity and Its Relationship with Climate/Environment

edited by

Francesco Rendina

and Valentina Perricone

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

Keywords: marine biodiversity; marine ecosystems; climate change; ocean acidification; global warming; species adaptation; habitat shift; ecosystem services; environmental impacts; marine conservation; sustainable management

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

Study on Environmental Hydrology and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Basins, Estuaries and Offshore

edited by

Biyun Guo

and

Chunyan Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1231 | Submission Open

Keywords: water environment; coastal estuary; hydrodynamic; mathematical model

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

Advanced Remote Sensing for Coastal System Monitoring and Management

edited by

Chunpeng Chen

,

Ce Zhang

and

Wenting Wu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1009 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal zones; remote sensing; coastal sustainable management; deep learning

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

Studies on Toxic Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems

edited by Zongming Ren and

Chunlei Xia

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 639 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic toxicology; online monitoring technology; individual responses; toxic effects; water pollution; biodiversity; ecosystems

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

Sustainable Water Management in Agricultural Irrigation

edited by Dat Q Tran

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 581 | Submission Open

Keywords: irrigated agriculture; cropping patterns; irrigation technologies; managed aquifer recharge (MAR); re-claimed/treated water; water– energy– food nexus; transboundary conflict and cooperation; water institutions

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

Perspectives on Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Technologies

edited by Yuan Yan and Han Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 346 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater sustainability resource recovery system optimization biosolids and biogas management techno-economic analysis (TEA) life cycle assessment nitrogen removal integrated wastewater treatment systems

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

Intelligent Water Networks: Advanced Sensing, Real-Time Analytics, and Adaptive Management for Future Water Challenges

edited by

Sohail Iqbal

and

Manousos Valyrakis

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 251 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent water systems; advanced sensors; real-time analytics; machine learning; digital twins; edge computing; adaptive management; IoT; water quality monitoring; predictive modeling

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

Advances in Metal Removal and Recovery from Water

edited by

Xiande Xie

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 235 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; water treatment; metal pollution removal; metal recovery; absorption; heavy metal

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

Advances in Monitoring of Hydrological and Ecological Processes Under Climate Change

edited by

Haibo Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 223 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological monitoring; ecological processes; climate change impacts; evapotranspiration modeling; data fusion; water use efficiency

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

Machine Learning Models for Flood Hazard Assessment

edited by

Álvaro Sordo-Ward

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 214 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; artificial intelligent; flood hazard; flood forecasting; flood warning; flood risk; models; real time; monitoring systems; climate change; new sensors; mitigation strategies

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

Rainfall Variability, Drought, and Land Degradation

edited by

Moncef Bouaziz

and

Harris Vangelis

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open

Keywords: rainfall; soil; land degradation; variabiltity; drought; modeling

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

Advances in Ecohydrology in Arid Inland River Basins, 2nd Edition

edited by

Lianqing Xue

and

Guang Yang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change and water cycle; ecohydrological processes; efficient utilization of water resources; ecohydrological modeling; ecological and hydrological coupling; ecological pattern; ecological water requirement; arid inland river basin

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Climate-Driven Coastal and Ocean Dynamics: Waves, Shoreline Changes, and Carbon Cycle Interactions

edited by

Frédéric Kpèdonou Bonou

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal erosion; wave climate; carbon sequestration; shoreline dynamics; ocean acidification; blue carbon; climate adaptation; remote sensing; sediment transport; extreme events

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

Mine Water Treatment, Utilization and Storage Technology

edited by Xiaojun Wang,

Xiang Li

and

Zhan Yang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 129 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-salinity wastewater; mine water treatment; mine water utilization; resource reuse; geological storage technology

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

Advancements in Remote Sensing and UAV Technologies for Water Management in Climate-Smart Agriculture Systems

edited by

Muhammad Awais

,

Xander Wang

,

Wei Li

and Selvarajah Thuseethan

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; climate-smart agriculture; water management; digital twins; sustainable farming; agricultural water use efficiency

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

Water Resource Simulation and Optimal Allocation: Theory, Methods and Applications

edited by

Adebayo J. Adeloye

and

Rabee Rustum

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open

Keywords: simulation; optimization methods; hybrid simulation– optimisation; multi-objective optimisation; irrigation; hy-dropower; floods; water quality; artificial intelligence (AI); machine learning (ML); heuristics optimization; un-certainty characterization; climate change

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

Machine Learning Models for Hydrological Inference: A Case Study for Flood Events

edited by

Li Zhou

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 79 | Submission Open

Keywords: development and optimization of machine learning models for flood prediction and early warning; multi-source data fusion and remote sensing applications in flood monitoring; hydrological response modeling under extreme rainfall conditions; interpretability; transferability; and uncertainty quantification of machine learning models; small-sample learning and transfer learning in data-scarce regions; hybrid modeling approaches that integrate physical-based and machine learning models; case studies and system-level applications of machine learning in real-world flood management contexts

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

Water-Soil-Vegetation Interactions in Changing Climate

edited by Mingjie Shi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– soil– vegetation nexus; carbon and water cycles; global environmental change; ecosystem resilience; sustainable management strategies

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

Advanced Perspectives on the Water–Energy–Food Nexus

edited by Qiong Yue,

Guohua He

, Mengyang Wu and

Xinchun Cao

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– energy– food nexus; integrated management; cross-sectoral policy; climate resilience; cascading risk

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

Application of Hydrological Modelling to Water Resources Management

edited by

Doosun Kang

,

Amir Saman Tayerani Charmchi

and

Fatemeh Ghobadi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate-change adaptation; climate-related disasters; decision support systems; digital twins; early warning systems; environmental uncertainties; hydrological modeling; integrated water resources management (IWRM); machine learning and deep learning; model-informed decision making; multi-criteria decision making; multi-objective opti-mization; optimal water allocation; probabilistic modeling; proactive management strategies; reinforcement learning; remote sensing and GIS applications; scheduling and planning; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); water– energy nexus; water supply and demand; water resources management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Human–Water Interactions: Water Supply, Livelihood and Rural Society

edited by Liangxin Fan

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: water governance; water consumption; water conservation; water sanitation; water supply; water resource management; public policy

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

Advanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies with the Potential to Achieve Resource Recycling

edited by

Kinjal J. Shah

and

Yongjun Sun

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open

Keywords: water conservation; sustainable water management; efficient water use; water-saving technologies; water resource preservation; climate-resilient water systems; community water stewardship

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

Rethinking Wastewater: Microbial Solutions for a Sustainable Future

edited by

Bharat Manna

and

Naresh Singhal

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 28 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater valorization; environmental biotechnology; activated sludge processes; microbial stress response; resource recovery; omics technologies; dissolved organic matter; circular bioeconomy; micropollutant degradation; metabolic modelling

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

Risk Assessment and Mitigation for Water Conservancy Projects

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 24 | Submission Open

Keywords: dams; dikes; water diversion projects; risk; seepage; overtopping; breach; consequences; management

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

Novel Advanced Oxidation Technology for Water Treatment

edited by Pengwei Yan, Lei Yuan and Jimin Shen

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 21 | Submission Open

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

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

Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Monitoring and Conservation, 2nd Edition

edited by

Igor Zelnik

and

Mateja Germ

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 18 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; rivers; lakes; wetlands; springs; streams; groundwater; ponds; macrophytes; macroinvertebrates; diatoms; algae

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

Geotechnical and Underground Engineering Problems Caused by Water Action

edited by Yonggang Zhang, Cheng Lyu and

Lichen Li

submission deadline 24 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 7622 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– soil coupling; tunnel water inflow; rock seepage; wading slope; hydraulic coupling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Optimisation of Water Distribution System Design and Operation Under Uncertainty

edited by

Avi Ostfeld

and

Sriman Pankaj Boindala

submission deadline 24 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 47 | Submission Open

Keywords: water distribution systems; uncertainty analysis; hydraulic and water quality modeling under uncertainty; optimization under uncertainty; stochastic and robust optimization; adaptive operational control; decision support systems under uncertainty

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

Hydrodynamics Science Experiments and Simulations, 2nd Edition

edited by

Yonggang Lu

, Yandong Gu,

Wenwu Zhang

and

Yongyao Luo

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 591 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrodynamic experiment; hydrodynamic simulation; hydraulic machinery; multiphase flow; hydro energy technology

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

Effects of Vegetation on Open Channel Flow and Sediment Transport

edited by

Mengyang Liu

and

Yanxu Wang

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 574 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic vegetation; sediment transport; vegetation– flow– sediment interaction; turbulence; eco-hydraulics; open channel flow; river morphology

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

Water Management and Geohazard Mitigation in a Changing Climate

edited by

Laszlo Podolszki

,

Igor Karlović

and Kosta Urumović

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 287 | Submission Open

Keywords: water managment; geohazards; mitigation; climate changes; sustainable development; groundwater; monitoring; mapping; modeling; risk assessment; multihazard analyses; vulnerability reduction; practical application; predictive analyses

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

Advances in Hydrodynamics for Pumping Systems: Modeling, Optimization, and Applications

edited by

Qiaorui Si

,

Gerard Bois

,

Asad Ali

and Yandong Gu

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 132 | Submission Open

Keywords: pumping systems; hydrodynamics; multiphase flow; cavitation ; computational fluid dynamics (CFD) ; energy efficiency ; turbulence modeling ; design optimization; transient flow; renewable energy integration

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

Watershed Ecohydrology and Water Quality Modeling

edited by Tao Huang

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 61 | Submission Open

Keywords: watershed; ecohydrology; hydrologic modeling; water quality; contaminants

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Energy Use Assessment and Management in Wastewater Systems

edited by

Catarina Nunes Jorge

and Maria Céu Almeida

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 41 | Submission Open

Keywords: carbon footprint reduction in wastewater systems; energy efficiency; energy monitoring and optimization; energy recovery; renewable energy; sustainable wastewater management

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

Optimal Management and Hydrological Simulation of Water and Soil Resources Under Climate Change

edited by Chongfeng Ren,

Gaiqiang Yang

and Xiao Liu

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 36 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources’ management; water resources’ carrying capacity; agricultural water productivi-ty; uncertainty; hydrological modeling; soil infiltration simulation; decision support system; machine learning; flash flood disaster assessment; flood risk management; drought assessment; extreme weather

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

Monitoring and Assessment of Pollutants in Coastal Waters, Sediments, and Biota, 2nd Edition

edited by

Hyeon-Seo Cho

and

Huiho Jeong

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open

Keywords: monitoring; assessment; pollutants; coastal water; marine sediments; marine organism; marine environment; food webs

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

Microplastics in Water and Wastewater

edited by

Ewa Liwarska-Bizukojc

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 30 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic environment; bioplastics; ecotoxicity; groundwater; microplastics; drinking water; removal efficiency; sludge; surface water; wastewater

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

Optimal Operation of Pumped Storage Hydropower Units and Renewable Energy

edited by Hao Zhang and

Yang Li

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 25 | Submission Open

Keywords: pumped storage hydropower units; renewable energy; hybrid energy system flexibility; multi-objective dynamic scheduling; low-carbon dispatch strategies; AI-driven hydropower forecasting; transient process control; hydro-meteorological uncertainty management; energy storage synergy

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

Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling in Aquifer Systems: 2nd Edition

edited by

Zbigniew Kabala

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 24 | Submission Open

Keywords: modeling; borehole tests; laboratory tests; tracer tests; aquifer remediation; aquifer characterization; vertical circula-tion wells; geothermal resources

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advanced Technologies for Water Erosion Mapping and Environmental Change Detection

edited by

Ben Jarihani

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 19 | Submission Open

Keywords: water erosion; land degradation; environmental change detection; soil erosion mapping; digital elevation models (DEMs); gully erosion; sediment transport; erosion modelling; LiDAR and UAV photogrammetry

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

Recent Advances in Maritime Energy Systems

edited by

Ying Cui

and

Zhen Liu

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 19 | Submission Open

Keywords: development and utilization of marine renewable energy; computational fluid dynamics and numerical simulation; oscillating water column wave energy converter; air turbine; hydrofoil; vertical-axis turbine

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

Application of Nanomaterials in Soil and Aquatic Environment Remediation

edited by

Mohammadreza Khalaj

submission deadline 26 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 62 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable nanomaterials; wastewater treatment; soil remediation; degradation mechanisms; sustainability assessment; characterisation of NMs; adsorption; advanced oxidation process (AOPs); fate of NMs; photocatalyst

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

Social, Cultural, and Economic Factors Directly and Indirectly Influencing Water Resources and Conservation Outcomes

edited by

Kyle Maurice Woosnam

and Kristin E. Gibson

submission deadline 27 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 30 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource communication; environmental education; water conservation behavior; social evaluation methods; watershed management; behavioral modification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Scarcity)

Environmental Behavior, Ecological Effects and Health Risks of Pollutants in Aquatic Ecosystems

edited by

Qiuheng Zhu

and Meiling Xu

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9352 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental pollutants; aquatic organisms; environmental behavior; water ecological effects; health risks

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

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