Water

Water Quality, Wastewater Treatment and Water Recycling, 2nd Edition

edited by Memory Tekere

submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4643 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; emerging contaminants; treatment processes; water reuse; SDG6.3; waste effluent valorisation; innovations; advanced technology; pathogens; AI in wastewater issues

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

Heavy Metal Pollution and Removal in the Water Environment

edited by Asmat Ali

submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 704 | 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)

Groundwater Environmental Risk Perception

edited by Jin Wu,

Jiao Li

and Quanwei Song

submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7025 | 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 Water Management for Sustainable Aquaculture

edited by

Dezhao Liu

submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3643 | 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)

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 2821 | 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)

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 18244 | 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)

Advances in Extreme Hydrological Events Modeling

edited by Majid Mirzaei

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14828 | Submission Open

Keywords: extreme hydrological events; extreme precipitation; frequency analysis; drought; floods; climate change impacts; uncertainty analysis; data assimilation; hydrological modeling; machine learning; deep learning

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

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 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14616 | 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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submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7655 | 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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7077 | 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)

Advanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies with the Potential to Achieve Resource Recycling

edited by

Kinjal J. Shah

and

Yongjun Sun

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6623 | 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)

Numerical Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport

edited by

Xin Chen

,

Huabin Shi

and Hongjie Wen

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6345 | 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)

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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4721 | 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)

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 4104 | 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)

Biogeochemical Processes in Lakes, Ponds and Reservoirs of Urban Environments

edited by

Yijun Xu

,

Xihua Wang

and

Siyue Li

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3932 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban lakes and ponds; lake biogeochemistry; lake carbon; nutrients; and toxic elements; sustainable urban lake management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

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

edited by

Igor Zelnik

and

Mateja Germ

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3906 | 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 3351 | 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)

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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3122 | 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)

Coastal Engineering and Fluid–Structure Interactions, 2nd Edition

edited by

Miaohua Mao

and

Junliang Gao

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 2872 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal engineering; wave– structure interactions; high-fidelity numerical modeling; laboratory and field experiments; mathematical models; harbors; coastal; and offshore structures; nature-based solutions; hydrodynamics; wave loads; wave overtopping

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

Advanced Chemical and Biological Technologies for Water Purification and Contaminant Degradation

edited by Zhanghao Chen and Longgang Chu

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2603 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation and reduction; photocatalysis and electrocatalysis; biotechnologies; radical chemistry; contaminant degradation

(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 2550 | 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)

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

edited by

Lianqing Xue

and

Guang Yang

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2434 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Water-Soil-Vegetation Interactions in Changing Climate

edited by Mingjie Shi

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2409 | 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)

Rethinking Wastewater: Microbial Solutions for a Sustainable Future

edited by

Bharat Manna

and

Naresh Singhal

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2393 | Submission Open

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

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

Observation and Modelling of Past, Current and Future Water Resources in Transboundary River Systems

edited by

Juraj Parajka

, Zsolt Kozma and Peter Burek

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1812 | Submission Open

Keywords: transboundary river system; hydrological modelling; uncertainty of climate projections; sustainable river basin management; joint monitoring and information systems; multi-level stakeholder engagement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Advanced Functional Materials for Water Pollution Control and Wastewater Treatment

edited by Mengmeng Wang and Lingchao Kong

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1619 | Submission Open

Keywords: functional materials; water pollution control; wastewater treatment; nanomaterials; catalytic degradation; photocatalysis

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

Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics in Fluid Machinery, 3rd Edition

edited by

Chuan Wang

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1613 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulics; hydrodynamics; pumps; compressors; turbo-machinery system; fans and blowers; hydro-turbine; propulsion; jet; cavitation and multi-phase flow; renewable energy; optimization

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

Advanced Technologies for Water Erosion Mapping and Environmental Change Detection

edited by

Ben Jarihani

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1581 | Submission Open

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

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

New Aseismic Technology and Methods in Hydraulic Structures and Geotechnical Engineering

edited by Xiang Yu,

Yuke Wang

and Yongqian Qu

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1452 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulic structures; geotechnical engineering; soft foundation; numerical simulation; experimental technology; dynamic response; damage behavior; liquefaction; stability; reliability analysis; treatment measure

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

Sustainable Agricultural Water Management Under Climate Change

edited by

Vinayak S. Shedekar

and

Babak Dialameh

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1400 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable agriculture; climate change adaptation; water management; irrigation and drainage; hydrologic modeling; soil– water– crop interactions; water quality; resilience; precision agriculture; decision-support systems

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

Groundwater Environment Evolution and Early Risk-Warning

edited by Tiejun Song and

Xiaofang Shen

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 899 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater environment; global changes; interface processes; contaminants; nutrients; vegetation succession; soil substances; early risk warning; risk management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advanced Approaches to Urban Flood Risk Management and Water-Body Conservation

edited by

Cheng Gao

and Hui Xu

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 306 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban flood risk; flood simulation; flood mitigation measure; urban water system governance and restoration; ecosystem service functions; water ecosystem conversation

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

Sources, Fate and Effects of Microplastic Pollution in Water

edited by

Soroush Abolfathi

,

Md Salauddin

and

Charlotte Dykes

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 263 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics; pollution transport; freshwater systems; nano-particles; water quality; pollution mitigation

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

Fate, Transport, Removal and Modeling of Pollutants in Water, 2nd Edition

edited by

Nelson M. Anaya

and

Varun K. Kasaraneni

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 258 | Submission Open

Keywords: remediation; water quality; modeling; fate and transport; pollutants; emerging pollutants

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

Economics in Wastewater Treatment

edited by Federico Micolucci

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 251 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater economics; cost– benefit analysis; resource recovery; water reuse; polluter-pays principle; energy neutrality; micropollutant removal costs; affordability and financing; circular economy; policy instruments

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

Decision-Making Theory and Methodology for Water, Energy and Food Security, 3rd Edition

edited by

Yejun Xu

and

Carlos Llopis-Albert

submission deadline 21 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2947 | Submission Open

Keywords: water-energy-food nexus resource management; water resource management; water risk analysis; safety; multi-criteria analysis; group decision making

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

Water Management and Geohazard Mitigation in a Changing Climate

edited by

Laszlo Podolszki

,

Igor Karlović

and Kosta Urumović

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 13547 | Submission Open

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

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

Effects of Vegetation on Open Channel Flow and Sediment Transport

edited by

Mengyang Liu

and

Yanxu Wang

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6451 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by

Zbigniew Kabala

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3274 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Research on Microplastic Pollution in Water Environment

edited by

Aravin Prince Periyasamy

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3225 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics; aquatic pollution; water contimination; marine microplastics; biodiversity; microplastic detec-tion; nano-microplastics; policy and regulation on microplastics; bioaccumulation; human health

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

Energy Use Assessment and Management in Wastewater Systems

edited by

Catarina Nunes Jorge

and

Maria do Céu Almeida

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2268 | Submission Open

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

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

Water-Saving and Energy-Efficient Irrigation Technologies and Equipment

edited by

Xingye Zhu

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1503 | Submission Open

Keywords: sprinkler irrigation; micro sprinkler irrigation; water-saving management; irrigation technical parameters; energy consumption optimization; theory and technology; low pressure atomization; comprehensive technical index; irrigation systems; automated control systems; sprinkler head; micro sprinkler; sprinkler design; remote monitoring; irrigation optimization; water distribution uniformity; sprinkler efficiency

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

Applications of Remote Sensing and GISs in River Basin Ecosystems, 2nd Edition

edited by Jiren Xu,

Pengfei Li

,

Changjia Li

and

Zhihui Wang

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1219 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; GISs; river basin ecosystems; water quality monitoring; land use and land cover change; hydrological processes; ecosystem dynamics; environmental conservation; spatial analysis; sustainable management

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

Biodiversity Assessment and Conservation in High-Altitude Freshwater Systems

edited by

Wout Van Echelpoel

and

Rubén Jerves-Cobo

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1009 | Submission Open

Keywords: freshwater; community; high altitude; assessment; management

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

Systemic Footprints of the Water-Energy-Carbon Nexus: From Life Cycle Assessment to Integrated Modeling

edited by

Saige Wang

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 979 | Submission Open

Keywords: life cycle assessment (LCA); water– energy– carbon nexus; environmental footprints; sustainability assessment; coupled systems; trade-offs and synergies; interdisciplinary approaches; resource management

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

Methods and Tools for Sustainable Agricultural Water Management, 2nd Edition

edited by Hui Yang, Manoj K. Shukla and

Yusen Yuan

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 816 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop water relations; water productivity; deficit/salinity irrigation; conservation agriculture; regional water management

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

AI (Gen) and Machine Learning Applications in the Water and Wastewater Sector

edited by Taher Abunama

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 460 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI (Gen); ML; LLM; digital twins; wastewater treatment; drinking water treatment; process control and optimisation; hybrid modelling; water quality prediction; anomaly detection and fault diagnosis; energy and emissions reduction

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

Climate Risk Management, Sea Level Rise and Coastal Impacts, 2nd Edition

edited by

Nawin Raj

, Nathan Downs and Lila Singh-Peterson

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 251 | 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)

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

edited by

Kyle Maurice Woosnam

and Kristin E. Gibson

submission deadline 27 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9790 | Submission Open

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

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

Advances in Hydrogeological Investigations: Field Monitoring, GIS, AI, Remote Sensing, Geophysical Techniques, and Hydrochemical Analysis

edited by

Ismael M. Ibraheem

and

Abdelazim Negm

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14406 | 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)

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