Water

Water Economy, Environment and Sustainable Water Governance

edited by Renhong Wu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 306 | Submission Open

Keywords: virtual water trade; water economy; energy–water nexus; sustainable development; environmental economics; water policy

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

Environmental Fate and Transport of Organic Pollutants in Water, 2nd Edition

edited by Tengyi Zhu, Haohan Yang and

Yajun Wang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 273 | Submission Open

Keywords: organic pollutants; environmental risk assessment; fate and transport; remediation and mitigation; heavy metals; bioremediation; anaerobic digestion; stormwater management; conventional and emerging contaminants; water environment simulation; ecological remediation

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

Advanced Sensor Materials for Aquatic Contaminants Detection

edited by

Mohammad Boshir Ahmed

and

Volker Hessel

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 272 | Submission Open

Keywords: aqueous sensor; advanced materials; water treatment; contaminants; new technology

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

Microbial Consortia Assembly and Stability in Wastewater Treatment Systems Under Variable Conditions

edited by

Paulina Rusanowska

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 234 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbial consortia; wastewater treatment; biofilms; granular sludge; algal–bacterial systems; environmental stress; process stability; anaerobic digestion; resource recovery

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

Landslide and Slope Stability Risk Assessment: Study of Rainfall-Induced Shallow Landslide

edited by

Chaminda Gallage

submission deadline 10 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2896 | Submission Open

Keywords: rainfall-induced shallow landslides; slope stability; landslide risk assessment; triggering mechanisms; numerical modelling; remote sensing and monitoring; early warning systems; climate change impacts; hazard mitigation; geotechnical engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Global Challenges and Solutions for Emerging Contaminants in Aquatic Environments

edited by Mohamed Hamdy Eid

submission deadline 10 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1819 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; water quality; environmental and health risk assessment; heavy metals; microplastics; water treatment; surface water and groundwater modeling; machine learning; hydrogeochemistry; transport modeling; remote sensing and GIS applications; drought; climate change

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

Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: The Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources, 2nd Edition

edited by

Enedir Ghisi

,

Ognjen Bonacci

and

Rafael J. Bergillos

submission deadline 10 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1203 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban water supply; urban drainage; sustainable urban water management strategies; sponge cities; stormwater harvesting; rainwater use in buildings; green roofs; permeable pavement systems to filter stormwater; urban water contamination; effects of urbanisation; sustainable development; urban wastewater reuse; flood risk management; water resources; climate change

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

Watershed Hydrology and Management Under Changing Climate, 3rd Edition

edited by Hongbo Zhang and

Jie Yang

submission deadline 10 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 166 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; hydrology modeling and forecasting; hydrological connectivity; groundwater–surface water interac-tion; ecohydrology; socio-hydrology; digital watershed; environmental flow; drought and flood risk management; integrated water resources management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Synergistic Management of Water, Fertilizer, and Salt in Arid Regions

edited by

Jihong Zhang

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3650 | Submission Open

Keywords: efficient utilization of water resources; water-fertilizer efficiency; water–salt regulation; water-saving irrigation

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

Water Quality Management for Sustainable Aquaculture: Integrating Multi-Omics, Digital Technologies, and Climate Resilience

edited by

Minu Kesheri

and

Swarna Kanchan

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1751 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality management; sustainable aquaculture; recirculating aquaculture systems (RASs); biofloc technology; multi-omics integration; microbial community dynamics; nutrient cycling; harmful algal blooms; aquaculture wastewater treatment; climate change impacts; real-time water monitoring; biosensors in aquaculture; aquatic animal health; dissolved oxygen dynamics; ammonia and nitrogen management; eutrophication control; pathogen surveillance; aquaculture system resilience; water reuse and efficiency; precision aquaculture; digital technology; climate resilience

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

Anaerobic Digestion and Biomass Utilization of Wastewater Treatment Systems

edited by

Mohamed S. Gaballah

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1282 | Submission Open

Keywords: anaerobic digestion; wastewater treatment; biomass valorization; biogas production; resource recovery; circular economy; microbial community dynamics; process optimization; emerging contaminants; antibiotics and ARGs; microplastics; nutrient recovery; constructed wetlands; nature-based solutions; hybrid treatment systems; sustainable wastewater management; environmental biotechnology; process modeling and control

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

Advanced Technologies in Water and Wastewater Treatment, 2nd Edition

edited by

Achisa Cleophas Mecha

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1003 | Submission Open

Keywords: water and wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation processes; membrane separation; electrochemical processes; nanotechnology; desalination; water quality monitoring; water reuse

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

The Impact of Climate Change on Water Erosion

edited by Hongliang Kang and Yibao Lou

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 618 | Submission Open

Keywords: water erosion; climate change; extreme rainfall; runoff generation; sediment yield; soil and water conservation

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

Unsteady Flow Phenomena: Modeling, Testing, and Protective System Design

edited by

Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 405 | Submission Open

Keywords: transient flow; unsteady flow; hydraulic transient; pressure surge; water hammer; mathematical modelling; numerical simulation; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); experimental analysis; laboratory testing; protection systems

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

Groundwater for Health and Well-Being

edited by

Francisco Maraver Eyzaguirre

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12390 | Submission Open

Keywords: mineral-medicinal waters; natural mineral waters; thermal waters; balneotherapy; water quality; contaminants; anthropic ecosystem; climate change; energy efficiency; artificial intelligence

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

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

edited by

Li Zhou

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9663 | 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)

Innovations in Water Resource Management: Integrating Advanced Analytics, AI, and System Modeling

edited by Saman Maroufpoor

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9181 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource management; artificial intelligence; machine learning; data-driven modeling; hydrological forecasting; groundwater and surface water systems; climate change impacts; flood and drought forecasting; agricultural water management

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

Groundwater Environmental Risk Perception

edited by Jin Wu,

Jiao Li

and Quanwei Song

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8123 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater environmental risk; groundwater pollution; advanced technologies; risk assessment model; risk perception; multivariate data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Numerical Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport

edited by

Xin Chen

,

Huabin Shi

and Hongjie Wen

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7657 | Submission Open

Keywords: numerical modeling; hydrodynamics; sediment transport; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); multiphase flow; turbulence modeling; erosion and deposition; river morphology; coastal engineering

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

Application of Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Pengxiang Qiu

,

Shuai Zhang

and Zhihui Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7412 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation processes (AOPs); hybrid AOP technologies; wastewater treatment; photocatalysis; electrocatalysis; Fenton reactions; ozonation; reactive oxygen species (ROS); emerging contaminants; contaminant degradation

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

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

edited by

Igor Zelnik

and

Mateja Germ

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 7076 | 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)

Yellow River Basin Management Under Pressure: Present State, Restoration and Protection, 4th Edition

edited by

,

,

,

and Qingsong Wu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5075 | Submission Open

Keywords: Yellow River Basin; current state and challenges; human–water relationships; emerging pollutants; water security; high-quality development

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

Resilient Rivers: Integrating Nature-Based Solutions with Hydraulic Engineering

edited by

Su-Chin Chen

and

Kao-Hua Chang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4897 | Submission Open

Keywords: Nature-based Solutions (NbS); hydraulic engineering; eco-hydraulics; river resilience; flood mitigation; sediment transport; erosion control; green infrastructure; river restoration; hydrodynamic modeling; climate adaptation; water quality; ecosystem services; sustainable river management; river rewilding

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

Advances in Control Technologies for Emerging Contaminants in Water

edited by

Weiying Li

and Dawei Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3545 | Submission Open

Keywords: Emerging Contaminants (ECs); water treatment technologies; Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs); adsorption materials; microplastics; PFAS; biological degradation; hybrid treatment systems; environmental risk assessment; sustainable water management; water quality; analytical methods

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

Mine Water Environment and Remediation

edited by

Zhimin Xu

,

Ge Chen

and Li Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3045 | Submission Open

Keywords: mine water environment; mine water quality; typical pollutants; treatment and utilization; pollution remediation; mine water reinjection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Pollution Mechanisms and Source Apportionment of Typical Pollutants in Aquatic Environments, 2nd Edition

edited by Qianqian Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 2953 | Submission Open

Keywords: rivers, lakes and groundwater; water quality; hydrochemistry; pollution sources; sources analysis; assessment methods; isotope technology; machine learning; multivariate statistical techniques; models

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

Climate Change Impacts on Landslide Activity

edited by

Wenkai Feng

,

Xiaoyu Yi

and

Shan Dong

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2699 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; landslides; slope stability; hazard assessment; rainfall; temperature; permafrost; remote sensing; modeling; risk management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Hydrogeology and Water Management in Ancient Hydraulic Systems

edited by

Libera Esposito

and

Francesco Fiorillo

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2631 | Submission Open

Keywords: ancient aqueducts; hydrogeology; water management; water supply; climate change; Greek; Roman; Sumerian; Egyptians

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Novel Sorbents for Water Treatment

edited by

Marta Marszałek

and

Ewa Knapik

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2369 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel sorbent materials; sustainable sorbents; functionalized sorbents; composite sorbent materials; adsorption mechanisms, kinetics, and isotherm modeling; water treatment; emerging pollutants; heavy metal removal; organic pollutants removal

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

Advances in Water Resource Management and Planning

edited by

Mariusz Adynkiewicz-Piragas

,

Haifeng Jia

,

Alicja Edyta Krzemińska

and Anna Zaręba

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2358 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource management; digitalisation and smart water systems (IoT, AI, Big Data); hydrological and hydroclimatic modelling; GIS and remote sensing in water management; sustainable and resilient water systems (NbS, blue-green infrastructure); water management in cities and urban farms; water retention and recovery systems; adaptive water resource planning; integration of water, energy, and food; economic and financial instruments in water management

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

Advanced Water Treatment Strategies for the Removal of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants

edited by

Cátia Graça

and Ana Sofia Guedes Gorito dos Santos

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2269 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; water purification; wastewater treatment; advanced water treatment; innovative treatment methods

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

Water Quality, Pathogens, and Public Health Risks

edited by

Samendra Sherchan

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1936 | Submission Open

Keywords: waterborne diseases; emerging pathogens; water quality; water treatment; epidemiology

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

Application of Adsorbent Materials for Efficient and Sustainable Water Treatment

edited by

Xiaochun Yin

and Yongfeng Zhu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1343 | Submission Open

Keywords: adsorbent materials; water treatment; pollutant removal; nanomaterials; bio-based adsorbents; sustainable materials; adsorption mechanism

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

Ecology and Management of Crayfish

edited by

Mihaela C. Ion

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1220 | Submission Open

Keywords: anthropogenic disturbance; aquaculture; endangered species; environmental DNA; eradication; hydrological fragmentation; invasive species; monitoring; risk assessment; trophic niche

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

Complex Vegetated Flows in Riverine Open-Channel: Turbulence, Morphology, and Multi-Scale Particle Transport

edited by

Prateek Kumar Singh

,

João Nuno Fernandes

and

Xiaonan Tang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 907 | Submission Open

Keywords: open-channel vegetated flow; turbulence and mixing; sediment transport; microplastic transport; particle deposition and trapping; eco-hydraulics; vegetation density/porosity; riverine multi-phase transport; flow–vegetation–sediment interaction; flow–vegetation–plastic interaction

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

Water Remediation, Reuse, and Resource Recovery: Toward Circular Water Systems

edited by

Anamika Kushwaha

and Radha Rani

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 804 | Submission Open

Keywords: resource recovery; emerging contaminants; photocatalysis; bioremediation; circular bioeconomy; wastewater treatment; algal systems; advanced oxidation processes; sustainable water management

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

Advanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies, Emerging Contaminant Control, and Sewage Sludge Valorization

edited by Jun Li and

Dongyue Li

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 593 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel biological treatment processes; aerobic granular sludge; anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox); biofilm; emerging contaminants; sludge resource utilization; nitrogen and phosphorus removal

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

Hydrologically Induced Landslides: Mechanisms and Risk Assessment

edited by

Long Yan

and

Jun Yu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 540 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslides; hydrologically induced landslides; deformation mechanism; seepage evolution; monitoring and early warning; numerical modeling; risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

River Dynamics: Flow and Sediment Transport

edited by

Jennifer G. Duan

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 495 | Submission Open

Keywords: river dynamics; sediment transport; computational model; machine learning model; deep learning model

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

Application of Machine Learning and Satellite Remote Sensing in Flood Risk Assessment

edited by

Alan Woodley

and

Chandrama Sarker

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 438 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood risk; flood mapping; remote sensing; machine learning algorithms

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

Innovative Adsorption Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Eva Sanz-Santos

and

Pablo Gutiérrez-Sánchez

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 406 | Submission Open

Keywords: adsorption; wastewater treatment; adsorption modelling; micropollutants; innovative adsorbents; activated carbon; biochar; nanomaterials; MOFs; waste valorization

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

Application of Remote Sensing Technology in Hydrological Research

edited by

Haibo Wang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 395 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water resources; evapotranspiration; soil moisture; hydrology modeling; drought monitoring; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Energy Efficiency and Hydraulic Performance in Water Systems

edited by

Elena Gómez

and

Elvira Estruch Juan

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 384 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy efficiency in water systems; hydraulic performance optimization; water distribution network energy recovery; pumping systems and variable speed drives; smart control and monitoring; energy-aware system design; pump-as-turbine (PAT) performance

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

Geochemistry and Reservoir Management

edited by

Khosro Jarrahian

and

Mahdi Kalantari-Meybodi

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 355 | Submission Open

Keywords: geochemistry; hydro-thermo-mechanical proccesses; fluid flow in porous media; thermodynamics; fluid–rock interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Slope and Tunnel Instability Under Climate and Engineering Stresses: Landslides, Debris Flows and Water Conservation

edited by

Shunchao Qi

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 330 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslides and debris flows; engineered slopes (waste dumps, subgrades, high fills, dam slopes); tunnels (portal slopes, drainage effects, spoil areas); major engineering projects; climate change (extreme rainfall, permafrost thaw); cold high‑altitude regions; practical engineering case studies; numerical modeling (FEM, DEM, SPH, etc.); soil and water conservation; hydrological drivers of slope instability

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

Biological Wastewater Treatment for Resource Recovery

edited by

Francisco Javier Rubio-Rincón

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 275 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable sanitation; resource recovery; circular citywide inclusive sanitation; circular bioeconomy

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

Mine Water Utilization and Sustainable Management

edited by Neil Burnside and Ian Molnar

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 271 | Submission Open

Keywords: mine water; hydrogeology; geothermal; acid mine drainage; thermal energy storage; geochemistry; subsurface transport; contaminant fate

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Microbial Community Dynamics and Functional Characteristics in Aquatic Environments

edited by Shuzhen Li

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 237 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbial community; functional characteristics; aquatic ecosystems; meta-omics; biogeochemical cycles; envi-ronmental microbiology; ecosystem functioning; microbial diversity and distribution; host–microbiome inter-actions

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

Novel Methods in Wastewater and Stormwater Treatment, 2nd Edition

edited by

Dorota Olejnik

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 204 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; stormwater management; stormwater harvesting; emerging contaminants; microplastics; pollutant transport; surface runoff modeling; nature based solutions; circular economy; resource and nutrient recovery; water reuse; advanced oxidation processes; climate change adaptation; artificial intelligence; smart cities

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

River Hydraulics and Ecological Management Under Climate Change

edited by

Alban Kuriqi

and

Paweł Tomczyk

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 190 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; river hydraulics; ecohydraulics; river ecology; hydrological extremes; environmental flows; sediment transport; river morphology; hydraulic modeling; river basin management

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

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