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Insights on the Water–Energy–Food Nexus and Sustainable Development
edited by
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6181 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4842 | 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 568 | 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 | 11 articles | Viewed by 31886 | 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)
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 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15943 | 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)
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 14281 | Submission Open
Keywords: water modeling; soil– water interaction; rock– water interaction; geo-hazards; water-induced problems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
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 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12960 | 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)
Machine Learning Applications in the Water Domain
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 11992 | 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)
Slope Stability Analyses and Landslide Risk Assessment Under Hydrodynamic Action submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11324 | 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)
Evaluation of Microbiological Indicators for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11044 | 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)
Flood Inundation Modeling and Mapping: Application of Hydrodynamic Models, Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Tools submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10138 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrology; flood frequency; hydrodynamic modeling; remote sensing; machine learning; satellite imagery; SRTM; LiDAR; Sentinel-1; Sentinel-2; Landsat; floods; inundation; flood risk; uncertainty analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Microplastics Pollution in Aquatic Environments
edited by and Chengtao Li
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9942 | Submission Open
Keywords: microplastics; ecotoxicology; aquatic systems; detection; mitigation strategies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Applications of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Treatment
edited by , Rui Zhang and Yang Hu
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 9925 | 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)
Global Water Risks Across Shared River Corridors in Transboundary Basins
edited by , , and Zaichen Xiang
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8995 | 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)
Research on Water Supply Systems and on the Treatment and Recovery of Wastewater and Stormwater submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7207 | 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)
Slope Stability Analyses and Risk Assessment for Rainfall-Induced Landslides
edited by , and Jiang Song
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6968 | 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
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6801 | 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)
Advanced Numerical Approaches for Multiphase and Cavitating Flows
edited by Linmin Li
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6039 | Submission Open
Keywords: multiphase flow; cavitation; numerical simulation; Eulerian– Lagrangian approach; computational fluid dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Advanced Remote Sensing for Coastal System Monitoring and Management
edited by , and
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5311 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal zones; remote sensing; coastal sustainable management; deep learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Study on Environmental Hydrology and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Basins, Estuaries and Offshore
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4908 | Submission Open
Keywords: water environment; coastal estuary; hydrodynamic; mathematical model
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Machine Learning Models for Flood Hazard Assessment
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4687 | 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)
Advances in Metal Removal and Recovery from Water
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2506 | 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)
Studies on Toxic Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems
edited by Zongming Ren and
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2487 | 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)
Advances in Monitoring of Hydrological and Ecological Processes Under Climate Change
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1185 | 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)
Perspectives on Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Technologies
edited by Yuan Yan and Han Wang
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 556 | 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)
Changes in the Regimes of Glacial and Permafrost-Influenced Watersheds in the High Arctic
edited by and Łukasz Franczak
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 299 | Submission Open
Keywords: proglacial catchment hydrology and hydrochemistry; glacial; snowmelt; permafrost and mixed-river regime; river flow dynamics and variability; rainfall and snowmelt floods; river and overland runoff; foodplain and channel morphology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Water Resource Simulation and Optimal Allocation: Theory, Methods and Applications submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 258 | 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)
Climate-Driven Coastal and Ocean Dynamics: Waves, Shoreline Changes, and Carbon Cycle Interactions submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 257 | 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)
Water-Soil-Vegetation Interactions in Changing Climate
edited by Mingjie Shi
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 174 | 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)
Geotechnical and Underground Engineering Problems Caused by Water Action
edited by Yonggang Zhang, Cheng Lyu and
submission deadline 24 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12893 | Submission Open
Keywords: water– soil coupling; tunnel water inflow; rock seepage; wading slope; hydraulic coupling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Hydrodynamics Science Experiments and Simulations, 2nd Edition
edited by , Yandong Gu, and
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 6735 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrodynamic experiment; hydrodynamic simulation; hydraulic machinery; multiphase flow; hydro energy technology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Optimal Management and Hydrological Simulation of Water and Soil Resources Under Climate Change
edited by Chongfeng Ren, and Xiao Liu
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1528 | 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)
Optimal Operation of Pumped Storage Hydropower Units and Renewable Energy
edited by Hao Zhang and
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1409 | 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)
Microplastics in Water and Wastewater submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 179 | 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)
Monitoring and Assessment of Pollutants in Coastal Waters, Sediments, and Biota, 2nd Edition
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 156 | 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)
Recent Advances in Maritime Energy Systems
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 113 | 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)
Environmental Behavior, Ecological Effects and Health Risks of Pollutants in Aquatic Ecosystems
edited by and Meiling Xu
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16918 | 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)
Approaches to Water-induced Landslide Hazard Risk Forecasting and Assessment
edited by Junrong Zhang, , and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12303 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; geomechanics; physical modelling; numerical modelling; slope stability; landslide susceptibility mapping; displacement prediction; landslide mitigation; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Advance in Groundwater in Arid Areas
edited by Yudong Lu
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8998 | Submission Open
Keywords: arid and semi-arid regions; groundwater; groundwater-surface water interaction; groundwater numerical modeling; policies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Modeling of Flood Hazard and Assessment of Inundation Impacts, Vulnerability and Risk in Coastal Areas submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7129 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal flooding; coastal inundation; compound flooding; coastal flood risk; storm surge; climate change impacts; operational forecasting of floods; early warning systems; sea level rise; wave-induced flooding
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Geotechnics and Geostructures Modelling for Hydrodynamic-Driven Landslides: Prediction and Control
edited by Qinwen Tan, and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3907 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydraulic process; landslide evolution; slope stability; geostructures modelling; seepage force; landslide mitigation and control; geotechnics; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Causes and Reconstruction of Catastrophic Flash Flood Disasters: Investigation, Analysis, Modelling and Risk Management, 2nd Edition
edited by and Meihong Ma
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2684 | Submission Open
Keywords: catastrophic flash floods; climate changes; extreme precipitation; underlying conditions; human activities; hydrological and hydro-meteorological modelling; soil erosion; water-sediment process; mechanism of flash flood disaster; risk assessment and management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources and Water Risks, 3rd Edition
edited by , Fei Chen, Fei Wang, and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 724 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; water resource management; drought; flood; remote sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Ecohydrological Processes, Environmental Effects, and Integrated Regulation of Wetland Ecosystems, 3rd Edition
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 20 articles | Viewed by 31215 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecohydrological processes; environmental effects; ecological risks; biogeochemical processes; pollution; restoration; regulation; climate change; ecological service functions; wetland ecosystems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)
The Impact of Climate Change and Land Use on Water Resources—an Issue of Environmental Global Safety submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 22521 | Submission Open
Keywords: water resources; environmental safety; impact of climate change; management of water resources
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Advance in Hydrology and Hydraulics of the River System Research 2025
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 15390 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydraulics; hydrology; river system; flow dynamics; numerical and physical modeling; hydrotechnics; geomorphologic; sediment transport; climate changes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Mathematical, Physical, Chemical, and Biological Methods for Ice and Water Problems
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 10006 | Submission Open
Keywords: lake ice; river ice; sea ice; ice engineering; observations and investigations; water environment; ecology; mathematical method; numerical modeling; physical modeling; chemical analysis; biological analysis; data analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
New Perspectives for Water Quality and Wastewater Remediation: Advanced Oxidation Processes and Toxicity Assessments submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9142 | Submission Open
Keywords: wastewater treatment; water purification; water quality; water safety; emerging conataminants; water remediation; AOPs; transformation products; toxicity assessments; environmental risk; environmental safety
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Advances in Hydrogeological Investigations: Field Monitoring, GIS, AI, Remote Sensing, Geophysical Techniques, and Hydrochemical Analysis submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7958 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; geophysical methods; geographical information system (GIS); joint interpretation; hydrogeophysical investigations; groundwater investigation; groundwater monitoring; groundwater assessment; groundwater sustainability; aquifer characterization; sustainable water management; groundwater quality; groundwater contamination; groundwater– surface water interaction; groundwater resources; advanced groundwater modeling; investigation of aquifer heterogeneities; regional and transboundary groundwater
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Urban Water Systems: Challenges in Current Environment
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5604 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban water system; wastewater and stormwater systems; centralised systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
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