Water

Policy Innovation and Integrated Governance for Sustainable Urban Water Management

edited by

, Eleni Zafeiriou and

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11565

Keywords: urban water resource management; policy innovation; integrated governance; institutional design; water use efficiency; digital water governance; nature-based solutions

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

Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in Ocean Engineering—Second Edition

edited by

Zhipeng Zang

and

Ming Zhao

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5501

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)

Advancements in Anaerobic Digestion and Sustainable Sludge Management

edited by

Weixin Zhao

, Lili Li and Rupeng Wang

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 671

Keywords: anaerobic digestion; sewage sludge management; resource recovery; waste-to-energy; methane production; cir-cular economy; sludge pretreatment; biosolids

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

Soil Erosion and Sedimentation by Water

edited by

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,

and

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13751 | 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)

Water: Economic, Social and Environmental Analysis

edited by

Joaquín Melgarejo Moreno

and

Borja Montaño Sanz

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 10 articles | Viewed by 13372 | Submission Open

Keywords: water management; economic analysis; social equity; environmental sustainability; integrated approaches

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

Advanced Treatment Technologies for Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater

edited by

Xiayuan Wu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8124 | 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)

New Technologies to Ensure Safe Drinking Water

edited by Yizhen Cheng,

Bin Liu

and Pengwei Yan

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7722 | Submission Open

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

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

Recent Advances in Offshore Hydrodynamics

edited by

Chongwei Zhang

and Xuanlie Zhao

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6766 | 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 Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture: Practices, Ecosystems, and Socio-Economic Perspectives

edited by Tomasz Kajetan Czarkowski and

Krzysztof Kupren

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6349 | 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)

Contaminant Transport, Risk Assessment, and Ecological Impacts in Karst

edited by

Wei Liu

,

Wei Chen

and Matej Blatnik

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5914 | 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)

The Interrelationship Between Climate Change, Human Activities and Hydrological Processes, 4th Edition

edited by

Qianfeng Wang

,

Haijun Deng

and

Jinshi Jian

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5909 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; hydrological processes; water resources; vegetation; soil; rock; drought; heatwaves; mutual effects

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

Sustainable and Efficient Water Use in the Face of Climate Change

edited by

Yaosheng Wang

and

Haiyang Ma

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5201 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate resilience; precision irrigation; crop physiology; water use efficiency; root–soil dynamics

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

Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Tools and Strategies for Resilient Growth

edited by

G.-Fivos Sargentis

,

Theano Iliopoulou

and

Levon Gevorkov

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2044 | Submission Open

Keywords: water–energy–food nexus; resource resilience; self-sufficiency; water reuse; wastewater reuse; renewable energy; circular economy; local food systems; resource recovery; historical examples of water-energy and food management

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

Water and Waste Management Strategies and Environmentally Sustainable Approaches

edited by

Premakumara Jagath Dickella Gamaralalage

and

Chen Liu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1724 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated water and waste management; environmental sustainability; circular economy; urban environmental systems; nature-based solutions; community-based resource management; environmental policy and governance; smart technologies in resource management; artificial intelligence (AI); systems thinking, sustainable development goals (SDGs); resource efficiency; environmental engineering; sustainability science

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

Advanced Hydrological Modeling for Extreme Events: Floods, Droughts, and Risk Assessment

edited by Muhammad Usman Liaqat and Stefania Camici

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1390 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modeling; extreme events; flood simulation; drought prediction; rainfall–runoff models; non-stationarity; climate adaptation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Advances in Constructed Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration

edited by Xinyue Zhao,

Ning Hou

and

Lixin Li

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1291 | Submission Open

Keywords: constructed wetlands; microbial community; wastewater treatment; biogeochemical cycle; environmental sustainability

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

Distribution and Toxicity of Emerging Contaminants in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Sheng Liu

and

Kun Li

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1195 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; aquatic ecosystems; environmental behaviors; ecotoxicity; risk assessment; remediation technologies; analytical methods

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

Coastal Ecology and Fisheries Management, 2nd Edition

edited by

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,

and

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1147 | Submission Open

Keywords: estuaries ecology and management; wetlands protection and management; mangroves restoration and construction; fishery resource assessment; coastal fishery management; fishery management policy; coral ecology and protection; ecosystem services; coastal culture and aquaculture; marine farming and construction

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

Advances in Sediment Dynamics: Mechanisms, Modeling and Management in Transitional Environments

edited by

Maria Rita Maggi

,

Cosimo Peruzzi

,

Giuseppe Francesco Cesare Lama

and Marina Amadori

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1021 | Submission Open

Keywords: sediment dynamics; transitional environments; hydrodynamics and morphodynamics; sediment transport modeling; field measurements; laboratory experiments; innovative monitoring techniques

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

Sustainable Management of Water Distribution Networks

edited by

Hyuk Jae Kwon

and

Do Guen Yoo

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 988 | Submission Open

Keywords: leakage; water supply system; residual life; pipe aging; water quality; corrosion; smart maintenance; smart system design

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

Coastal Sediment Dynamics: Monitoring and Modeling for Resilient Shoreline Management

edited by Douglas A George

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 478 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal sediment dynamics; shoreline management; morphodynamic modeling; coastal resilience; remote sensing; sediment transport; adaptive management

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

Urban Hydrological Resilience: Innovations in Hazard Mitigation and Management

edited by

Weiwei Shao

and Xin Su

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 447 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban hydrological resilience; hazard mitigation and management; flood and drought risk; nature-based solutions; smart and digital water systems; climate change adaptation; integrated water resources management; resilient urban infrastructure

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

Integrated Approaches to Climate-Driven Hydrological Modeling and Water Resources Management

edited by

Massoud Behboudian

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 418 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate–hydrology interactions; water resources management; hydrological modeling; extreme events; adaptive governance; remote sensing in hydrology; sustainable water systems; machine learning applications; watershed resilience; socio-hydrological systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Solid Waste Management and Its Impacts on Groundwater Quality

edited by

Javier Rodrigo-Ilarri

and

María-Elena Rodrigo-Clavero

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 379 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid waste management; groundwater contamination; leachate migration; numerical modeling; pollution mitigation techniques

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

Emerging Organic Micropollutants in Aquatic Environments: Advanced Analytical Methods and Environmental Protection

edited by

Marta Oliveira Barbosa

and

Ana Rita Lado Ribeiro

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 329 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging organic micropollutants; aquatic environments; high-resolution mass spectrometry; non-target screening; water quality monitoring; environmental risk assessment; analytical methods; environmental protection

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

Disaster Analysis and Prevention of Dam and Slope Engineering

edited by

Yuke Wang

and Xiang Yu

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8505 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulic structure; geotechnical engineering; safety evaluation; numerical simulation; fine analysis; dynamic response; soft foundation; mechanical characteristics; damage behavior; treatment measure

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

Fate and Transport of Contaminants in Soil and Water

edited by

Changyin Zhu

,

Da Ouyang

and

Hui Wang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4649 | 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)

Water and Education: Teaching Sustainability, Managing Risks, and Shaping the Future

edited by

Álvaro-Francisco Morote

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4386 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable development goals (SDGs); climate change and water; water resources and landscapes; end-purposes of water teaching; flood risk management; water conservation strategies; hydrological cycle education; community engagement in water sustainability; resilient water governance

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

Revolutionizing Hydraulic Fracturing with Machine Learning and Data-Driven Approaches

edited by

Qinzhuo Liao

, Huiying Tang and Junchao Li

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3544 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulic fracturing; machine learning; data-driven; geomechanics; fluid flow; modeling and simulation; optimization

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

Diatom Biodiversity and Their Adaptation to Environment Change

edited by Mateusz Rybak

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2306 | Submission Open

Keywords: diatoms; ecology; antropocene; human impact; diversity; taxonomy; freshwater; marine; coastal habitats; environmental adaptations; environmental changes; paleoecology

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

Impact of Environmental Factors on Aquatic Ecosystem, 2nd Edition

edited by

Xuan Ban

,

Wenxian Guo

and Yicheng Fu

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1549 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic ecosystem; habitat; environmental flows; ecohydrology; ecohydraulic

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

Petroleum and Plastic Biodegradation and Bioremediation in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Carlos Costa

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1512 | Submission Open

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

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

Water-Related Disasters in Adaptations to Climate Change, 2nd Edition

edited by

Mikio Ishiwatari

and

Daisuke Sasaki

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1272 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change adaptation; mobilizing climate change finance; flood protection; transdisciplinary approach; public–private-partnership; community-based disaster risk reduction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Life Cycle Assessment and Water Footprint of Sustainable Construction Materials

edited by

Quddus Tushar

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 391 | Submission Open

Keywords: life cycle assessment (LCA); water footprint assessment (WFA); sensitivity analyses; emerging technologies; bio-based binders; supply chain; industrial byproducts; wastewater recycling

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

Management and Optimization of Water Distribution Networks

edited by

Javier Soriano Olivares

and

Roberto Del Teso

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 283 | Submission Open

Keywords: pressure management; leakage control; energy efficiency; pumping systems; infrastructure asset management; digital twins; resilience

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

Micropollutant Removal via Electricity-Driven Advanced Oxidation Processes

edited by

Changtao Chen

,

Xueyang Zhao

and

Rui Zhang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 253 | Submission Open

Keywords: electricity-driven advanced oxidation; micropollutant removal; electro-Fenton; plasma water treatment; wastewater remediation

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

Water Governance and Sustainable Water Resources Management, 2nd Edition

edited by

Mariusz Adynkiewicz-Piragas

,

Leszek Kuchar

,

Alicja Edyta Krzemińska

and Anna Zaręba

submission deadline 28 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3883 | Submission Open

Keywords: water management; sustainable water resources management; water governance and policies; climate change; climate change adaptation; water resources monitoring; stakeholder engagement; decision support systems; water-related tourism; blue-green infrastructure; aquatic ecosystem restoration; urban water planning; transboundary water management; water–energy–food nexus

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

Research on Adsorption Technologies in Water Treatment

edited by

Wei Wei

submission deadline 28 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3800 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel adsorbent materials; adsorption mechanisms, kinetics, and isotherm modeling; adsorption of emergent contaminants; static and dynamic adsorption; selective adsorption for targeted pollutant removal; regeneration and reusability of adsorbents; integration with hybrid systems (e.g., membrane filtration, catalysis); pilot-scale applications and real-world case studies

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

Research on Soil Moisture and Irrigation, 2nd Edition

edited by

Zhe Gu

and

Jiang Li

submission deadline 29 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1908 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture sensing; soil moisture prediction; irrigation scheduling modelling; temporal–spatial resolution; irrigation control; irrigation system

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

Research on the Carbon Cycle in the Aquatic Environment

edited by

Yixuan Zhang

,

Ji Liu

and

Songjun Wu

submission deadline 29 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 369 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic carbon cycle; greenhouse gases; biogeochemistry; carbon sequestration; land-water interface; climate change; dissolved organic matter; water quality; isotopic tracing; carbon fluxes

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

Flood Risk Identification and Management, 2nd Edition

edited by Juan Chen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10966 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood; flood management; flood control operation; risk identification; risk assessment; risk management; uncertainty

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

GIS Applications in Hydrology and Water Resources

edited by

Daniel P. Ames

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4580 | Submission Open

Keywords: geographic information systems (GIS); flood risk assessment ; groundwater potential mapping ; multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA); remote sensing; machine learning; site suitability analysis; water quality index; erosion and sediment yield ; hydrological modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Urban Drainage Systems and Stormwater Management, 2nd Edition

edited by

Yongwei Gong

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3354 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban drainage systems; urban flooding; low-impact development (LID); sponge city; urban rainwater collection; urban resilience

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

Water Resources and Environment

edited by

Chih-Huang Weng

and Wentao Li

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2615 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; hydrology; aquatic ecosystems; drinking water; wastewater; ground water

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

Water Pollution Assessment, Control, and Resource Recovery

edited by

Aleksandra Drizo

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2501 | Submission Open

Keywords: water pollution assessment; pollution control technologies; wastewater treatment; nutrient recovery; emerging contaminants; sustainable water management

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

ANAMMOX Based Technology for Nitrogen Removal from Wastewater: Linking Microbial Interactions, Ecological Mechanisms, and Engineering Optimization, 2nd Edition

edited by

Cancan Jiang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2454 | Submission Open

Keywords: anammox; partial nitrification; microbial interactions; greenhouse gas; quorum sensing; bacterial community; carbon neutrality

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

Water as a Strategic Resource—the Resilience of Water and Wastewater Systems Under Crisis Conditions and the Implementation of EU Directives

edited by Izabela Zimoch and

Iwona Kłosok-Bazan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2043 | Submission Open

Keywords: risk management; drinking water and wastewater quality; energy-water nexus; smart water networks and technology; microcontaminants removal

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

Aquatic Chemodynamics of Environmental Inorganic Pollutants: Transformation and Transfer Within and Across Various Environmental Compartments

edited by

Hong Zhang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1729 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic chemodynamics; emission; global biogeochemical cycle; heavy metals; lakes; oceans; photochemical; toxin/toxic; source/sink; water/air exchange; water/sediment exchange

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

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Water Management: Methods, Practices, and Challenges

edited by

Ze Liu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1685 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural water resources; artificial intelligence; water demand; big data; features

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

Advanced Wastewater Treatment for Sustainable Pollution Control

edited by Chunyan Yang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1606 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable water pollution control; advanced oxidation processes; membrane technology; resource recovery; emerging contaminants

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

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