Water

Novel Sorbents for Water Treatment

edited by

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submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 63 | 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)

Optimization–Simulation Modeling of Sustainable Water Resource, 2nd Edition

edited by Zhaocai Wang

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 56 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources management; sustainable development of water resources; optimization models; simulation modeling; water planning; water scheduling; water allocation; water environment management; disaster management; decision support systems

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

The Impact of Climate Change on Water Erosion

edited by Hongliang Kang and Yibao Lou

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 52 | 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)

Emerging Materials (Membranes, Adsorbents, Catalysts) for Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Titus Chinedu Egbosiuba

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 49 | Submission Open

Keywords: adsorption technologies; catalytic processes; membrane technology; water purification; advanced materials; pollutant removal; environmental remediation; sustainable wastewater treatment

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

Applied Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Sensing for Real-World Water Quality Monitoring

edited by

Juan Tomás García-Bermejo

and

Daniel Carreres Prieto

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 38 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; pathogens; cyanobacteria; machine learning; indirect characterization; prediction; detection; environmental monitoring; sensors; big data

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

Soil and Groundwater Quality and Resources Assessment, 3rd Edition

edited by

Wanjun Jiang

,

Yizhi Sheng

and Hairu Mao

submission deadline 22 May 2026 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiple contaminants; source apportionment; migration– transformation; ecological health risks; soil– groundwater system

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

Global Perspective on Hydrology and Water Resources Management in Complex Urban Areas

edited by Jingyuan Xue, Liuyue He and

Fan Zhang

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6391 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources management; climate change resilience; water quality control; integrated water resource planning; non-point source pollution; flood risk assessment and mitigation; drought risk assessment and mitigation; urban– rural transitional areas; coastal regoins

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Impacts of Environmental Change and Human Activities on Aquatic Ecosystems, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jian Hu

,

Guilin Han

and Qian Zhang

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4491 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic ecosystems; migration and transformation; source identification; risk assessment; sustainable development

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

Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) Research, 2nd Edition

edited by

Peng Du

and

Phong K. Thai

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2814 | Submission Open

Keywords: new biomarkers for WBE; new applications of WBE; early warning of infectious disease; monitoring substances of abuse; method uncertainties; health risk assessments

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

Water Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration: 2nd Edition

edited by

Ruiming Han

and Xin Leng

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1095 | Submission Open

Keywords: water pollution; ecological restoration; lake and river; water quality; aquatic ecology

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

Advancing the Monitoring and Modelling of Freshwater Systems with New Remote Sensing Technologies, 2nd Edition

edited by

Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1039 | Submission Open

Keywords: airborne remote sensing; flood forecasting; fluvial geomorphology; ice detection; ice characterization; near-ground remote sensing; river and lake modelling; river and lake monitoring; sediment transport; space-borne remote sensing; water quality

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

Evaluation and Monitoring of Hydrogeological Hazards in Underground Engineering

edited by Zhiqiang Li

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 745 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanisms of water-related hazards; advanced geological prediction; prediction and risk evaluation; monitoring methods; intelligent early-warning systems; hydro-geo-mechanical coupling; sustainable approaches for water-related hazards; control and treatment of water-related hazards; modeling and simulation of hydrogeological processes; case studies obout water-related hazards; large tunnels in mountainous areas; tunnels on high-speed rail lines below the water table; tunnels beneath the seabed; large caverns for fluid storage or power generation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

New Technologies for Hydrological Forecasting and Modeling

edited by

Iwona Kuptel-Markiewicz

,

Agnieszka Rutkowska

and

Katarzyna Baran-Gurgul

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 493 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modeling and foorecasting; machine learning in hydrology; real-time forecasting; remote sensing applications; uncertainty analysis; hydrological extreme events; artificial intelligence in hydrology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Integrative Methodologies for Mountain Torrent Disaster Resilience: Bridging Physical Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, and Multi-Scale Monitoring

edited by Yi Liu and Jun Guo

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 374 | Submission Open

Keywords: mountain torrent resilience; physical process modeling; AI-assisted forecasting; multi-scale monitoring; data assimilation; early warning systems; disaster risk reduction

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

Research on Wastewater Treatment, Recycling and Reuse

edited by

Manuel Toledo Padrón

and Sara Sáez-Orviz

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 277 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; physicochemical treatment; biological treatment; terciary treatment; odour control; waste management; pollutant removal; municipal wastewater; industrial wastewater; agricultural wastewater; resource recovery; water reuse

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

Indigenous Water: Knowledge, Rights, and Sustainable Management

edited by

Robert Patrick

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open

Keywords: indigenous water; water rights; water resources management; ecosystem services; environmental justice; water protection; climate change adaptation

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

Climate Change Adaptation and Water Governance

edited by

Attila Kovacs

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open

Keywords: water governance; climate change; water resources; water policy

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

Hydrological Impacts on Geological Hazards: Mechanisms, Modeling, and Early Warning

edited by Wei Shao,

Zongji Yang

and

Wen Nie

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrology– geohazard interactions; rainfall-induced landslides; pore water pressure; permafrost degradation; hydro-mechanical coupling; early warning; data assimilation; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Geochemistry and Reservoir Management

edited by

Khosro Jarrahian

and

Mahdi Kalantari-Meybodi

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 41 | 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)

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

edited by

Cátia A.L. Graça

and Ana Sofia Guedes Gorito dos Santos

submission deadline 29 May 2026 | Viewed by 80 | 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)

Climate Change Impacts on Landslide Activity

edited by

Wenkai Feng

,

Xiaoyu Yi

and

Shan Dong

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 82 | 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)

Climate Change and Hydrological Processes, 3rd Edition

edited by

Alina Bărbulescu

and

Cristian Ștefan Dumitriu

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change scenarios; extreme events; risk assessment; multivariate analysis; artificial intelligence models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Innovative Approaches to Freshwater Restoration and Management

edited by

Katarzyna Kowalczewska-Madura

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open

Keywords: freshwater; eutrophication; protective measures; restoration

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

Managing Water under a New Hydrological Normal: Innovations for Resilience in the Face of Climate Change

edited by

Jia Wang

and Yi Ji

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water resilience; hydrological modeling; adaptive water management; groundwater-surface water interactions; adaptive reservoir operation; multi-objective optimization; hydro-monitoring

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

Advancing Knowledge of the Impacts of Contaminants in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Alla Khosrovyan

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6075 | Submission Open

Keywords: benthic; water column; lentic; lotic; aquatic pollution; ecotoxicology; assay; test

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

Mine Water Environment and Remediation

edited by

Zhimin Xu

,

Ge Chen

and Li Zhang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 496 | 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)

Advances and Major Achievements in China’s Digital Twin River Basin Development

edited by

Yesen Liu

,

Yueqin Zhu

and

Yaohuan Huang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open

Keywords: China; digital twin hydrology; knowledge graph; large language model; virtual simulation; satellite remote sensing; flood control; water resources; water network

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

Urban Stormwater Control, Utilization and Treatment, 2nd Edition

edited by

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submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 121 | Submission Open

Keywords: stormwater control; low-impact development; numerical simulation; analytical probabilistic approach; stormwater treatment; rainwater harvesting; SWMM; sponge city; stormwater quality; urban flooding

Application of Machine Learning in Hydrologic Sciences, 2nd Edition

edited by

Gonzalo Astray

and

Diego Fernández-Nóvoa

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrology; water cycle; water– soil– atmosphere; machine learning; big data; monitoring/modelling/prediction/optimization/management; water flow/quality/supply/energy; risk/hazard assessment; multidisciplinary water research

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

Microbiomics in Wastewater Remediation and Biomedical Applications

edited by

Binghan Xie

and Dan Song

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 81 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbiomics; wastewater treatment; biomedical applications; microbial communities; therapeutic targets; cancer microbiome

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

Research on Wetland Ecohydrology

edited by

Qiang Liu

and

Yanfeng Wu

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 67 | Submission Open

Keywords: Wetland ecohydrology; drought; carbon source/sink; Wetland resilience; hydrological regime; evapotranspiration; Habitat; biodiversity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Advances in the Relationship Between Climate Change and Runoff in Watershed

edited by

Jūratė Kriaučiūnienė

and

Serhii Nazarenko

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 56 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modeling; climate scenarios; global models; downscaling; runoff projections; uncertainty; ungauged rivers; reanalysis data

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

Advances in the Application of Environmental Tracer Technology in Agricultural Water and Soil Management

edited by

Kashif Akhtar

and

Misbah Naz

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental tracers; stable isotopes; nutrient cycling; irrigation management; soil– water interactions

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

Heavy Metal Pollution and Removal in the Water Environment

edited by Asmat Ali

submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 297 | Submission Open

Keywords: heavy metals; water pollution; wastewater treatment; bioaccumulation; ecotoxicology; removal technologies; environmental health

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

Biochar-Driven Nutrient Circularity in Wastewater: From Reactivity to Agronomic Reuse

edited by

Salah Jellali

and

Mejdi Jeguirim

submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 69 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; biomass; biochar; modification; deep characterization; nutrient recovery; static and dynamic conditions; nutrient slow-release; circular economy

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

Groundwater Environmental Risk Perception

edited by Jin Wu,

Jiao Li

and Quanwei Song

submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4384 | 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)

Advanced Materials for the Catalytic Removal of Emerging Pollutants from Water

edited by

Martina Kocijan

,

Ivna Kavre Piltaver

and Robert Peter

submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 905 | Submission Open

Keywords: photocatalysis; wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation technologies; green and sustainable catalysis; heterojunction; structure modification; structure characterization; visible light application; degradation mechanism investigation; environmental application; technology scale-up

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

Advanced Water Management for Sustainable Aquaculture

edited by

Dezhao Liu

submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality monitoring; recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS); precision aquaculture; nutrient remediation; biofloc technology; aquaponics; integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA); aquaculture wastewater; sustainable intensification

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

Research on Microplastic Pollution in Water and Soil Environment

edited by

Kai Cai

and Taoze Liu

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 14089 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastic detection; microplastic abundance; plastic additives composition; ecolog-ical risk; environmental risk; water and soil environment

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

Global Water Risks Across Shared River Corridors in Transboundary Basins

edited by

Shahbaz Khan

,

Arfan Arshad

,

Fazlullah Akhtar

and Zaichen Xiang

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9057 | 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)

Risk Assessment and Mitigation for Water Conservancy Projects

edited by

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and

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4632 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by

Li Zhou

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3554 | 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)

Numerical Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport

edited by

Xin Chen

,

Huabin Shi

and Hongjie Wen

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2747 | 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)

Advanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies with the Potential to Achieve Resource Recycling

edited by

Kinjal J. Shah

and

Yongjun Sun

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2687 | 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)

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 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2519 | 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)

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

edited by

Igor Zelnik

and

Mateja Germ

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2253 | 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)

Mine Water Treatment, Utilization and Storage Technology

edited by Xiaojun Wang,

Xiang Li

and

Zhan Yang

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1932 | 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)

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

edited by Liangxin Fan

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1664 | 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)

Spatial Linkages Between Geographical Environments and Health Indicators: From Water Quality Parameters to Regional Health Status

edited by

Zihao Wu

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 978 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental health biomarkers; spatial heterogeneity; regional health disparities; pollutant transport and transformation; health risk assessment; environmental medicine interdisciplinarity

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

Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in the Water Environment Under Contemporary Global Changes

edited by

Abdul Qadeer

,

Xia Jiang

, Kelly Kirsten and

Qinghuan Zhang

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 747 | Submission Open

Keywords: legacy contaminants; emerging contaminants; PFAS; microplastics; water quality; detection; environmental modeling; global change; risk assessment; remediation technologies; climate impacts

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

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