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Soil and Groundwater Quality and Resources Assessment, 3rd Edition
edited by , and Hairu Mao
submission deadline 22 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 856
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
submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8594 | 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)
Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) Research, 2nd Edition
edited by and
submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5224 | 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)
Advances in Metal Removal and Recovery from Water
edited by
submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3673 | 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)
Water Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration: 2nd Edition
edited by and Xin Leng
submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2122 | 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 submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1726 | 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)
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 1614 | 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)
Recent Advances in Photocatalysis in Water and Wastewater Treatment submission deadline 30 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5123 | Submission Open
Keywords: photocatalysis; wastewater reuse; decentralized treatment; low-cost water treatment; AOPs; adsorption; water scarcity; agricultural irrigation; process optimization; sustainable water management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Mine Water Environment and Remediation
edited by , and Li Zhang
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2209 | 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)
Application of Machine Learning in Hydrologic Sciences, 2nd Edition submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1358 | 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)
Advances and Major Achievements in China’s Digital Twin River Basin Development submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1131 | 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 submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 897 | Submission Open
Keywords: stormwater control; low-impact development; numerical simulation; analytical probabilistic approach; stormwater treatment; rainwater harvesting; SWMM; sponge city; stormwater quality; urban flooding
Research on Wetland Ecohydrology
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 319 | Submission Open
Keywords: Wetland ecohydrology; drought; carbon source/sink; Wetland resilience; hydrological regime; evapotranspiration; Habitat; biodiversity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)
Microbiomics in Wastewater Remediation and Biomedical Applications
edited by and Dan Song
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 237 | 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)
Advances in the Application of Environmental Tracer Technology in Agricultural Water and Soil Management
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 188 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental tracers; stable isotopes; nutrient cycling; irrigation management; soil– water interactions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Water Quality, Wastewater Treatment and Water Recycling, 2nd Edition
edited by Memory Tekere
submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4392 | 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)
Water Resources Allocation, Planning, and Regulation for Sustainable Management
edited by
submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2623 | Submission Open
Keywords: water resources management; water allocation; planning and regulation; climate change adaptation; integrated approaches; water governance; sustainability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
Heavy Metal Pollution and Removal in the Water Environment
edited by Asmat Ali
submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 672 | 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, and Quanwei Song
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6861 | 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
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3224 | 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 , and Robert Peter
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2738 | 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 and Taoze Liu
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 18056 | 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 , , and Zaichen Xiang
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14314 | 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)
Advances in Extreme Hydrological Events Modeling
edited by Majid Mirzaei
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14305 | 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)
Risk Assessment and Mitigation for Water Conservancy Projects submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7482 | 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
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6920 | 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 and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6286 | 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 , and Hongjie Wen
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6176 | 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
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4440 | 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 , , and Selvarajah Thuseethan
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4026 | 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 , and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3866 | 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 and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3855 | 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, and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3277 | 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 , , Kelly Kirsten and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3018 | 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 and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 2687 | 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 2552 | 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 2471 | 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)
Water-Related Disaster Assessments and Prevention
edited by , Faxing Zhang and Baofeng Di
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2354 | Submission Open
Keywords: dam break flow; landslide-induced disasters; river blockage; debris flow; water-related hazard chains; hydrodynamic modeling; flood risk assessment; multi-hazard assessment; failure of hydraulic structures; multi-hazard risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Advances in Ecohydrology in Arid Inland River Basins, 2nd Edition
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2328 | 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 2247 | 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 submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2161 | 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)
Nutrient Cycling and Pollution Migration Mechanisms in Eutrophic Lake Basins
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1843 | Submission Open
Keywords: nutrient cycling; pollution; lakes; migration pathways; risk assessment; management strategies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Observation and Modelling of Past, Current and Future Water Resources in Transboundary River Systems
edited by , Zsolt Kozma and Peter Burek
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1750 | 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)
Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics in Fluid Machinery, 3rd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1561 | 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
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1545 | 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)
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 1514 | 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)
New Aseismic Technology and Methods in Hydraulic Structures and Geotechnical Engineering
edited by Xiang Yu, and Yongqian Qu
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1408 | 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 submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1313 | 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)
Environmental Criteria and Risk Control of Emerging Pollutants in Aquatic Environments
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1293 | Submission Open
Keywords: water quality; emerging pollutants; aquatic environments; ecosystem health; water quality criteria
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Environmental and Anthropogenic Influences on Freshwater Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 931 | Submission Open
Keywords: freshwater biodiversity; ecosystem health; anthropogenic impacts; water quality; habitat degradation; hydrological alteration; aquatic ecology; bioindicators; climate change; ecosystem restoration; nutrient pollution; microplastics; river management; conservation biology; ecological assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
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