Water

Advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Hydrological Processes and Hydrologic Disasters

edited by Huaxiang Yan and

Hongqiang Dou

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7188 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence technologies; groundwater transport; hydrological processes; hydrologic disasters; hydrologi-cal modelling; machine learning; soil water

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

Application of Bioremediation in Groundwater and Soil Pollution

edited by Aizhong Ding and

Dayi Zhang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3497 | Submission Open

Keywords: bioremediation; enhanced bioremediation; natural attenuation; natural source zone depletion; green and sustainable remediation; mechanisms of microbial detoxification; soil pollutants; groundwater pollutants

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

New Methods and Technologies of Urban Flood Forecasting, Risk Assessment and Response

edited by Ganggang Zuo and Jiancang Xie

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3307 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban flood; flood forecasting; risk assessment; artificial intelligence; flood response

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Impact of Climate Change on Water and Soil Erosion

edited by

Yinghui Guan

and Xinliang Wu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3158 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water and soil erosion; sediment transport; runoff; land use changes; precipitation extremes; carbon cycle

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

Research on the Carbon and Water Cycle in Aquatic Ecosystems

edited by Kun Sun and Junjie Jia

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1437 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic ecosystem; inland water; carbon cycle; carbon budget; carbon metabolism; biogeochemistry; ecohydrology; greenhouse gas emission

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

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

edited by

Zihao Wu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 872 | 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)

Innovative Green Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Sludge Valorization Towards a Circular Economy

edited by

Hu Zhao

and

Yun Chen

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 710 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable wastewater treatment; sewage sludge valorization; resource recovery; circular economy; green chemistry; nutrients circulation; advanced pretreatment technology; low-carbon technologies; life-cycle assessment

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

The New Nexus: The Interconnection of Climate Change, Source Water Protection, and Public Health

edited by

Carolyn Rodak

, Shannon Roback and Richard Weisman

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 293 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water quality; disinfection byproducts; drinking water; public health; source water protection; water infracture

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

New Aseismic Technology and Methods in Hydraulic Structures and Geotechnical Engineering

edited by Xiang Yu,

Yuke Wang

and Yongqian Qu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 234 | 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)

Ecosystem, Groundwater, and Soil Contamination: Detection, Impact Assessment, and Remediation Strategies

edited by

Kabari Sam

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 130 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental pollution; coastal and estuarine ecosystem health; macrobenthic ecology; environmental sustainability; groundwater contamination; heavy metal contamination in aquatic ecosystems; heavy metal contamination in soils; water– sediment quality assessment; mangrove degradation

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

Theory and Technology of Water-Induced Geological Disaster Prevention and Water Resource Utilization in Mines

edited by Helong Gu,

Fan Feng

and Yuan Zhao

submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5534 | Submission Open

Keywords: water-induced geological disasters; utilization of water resources; mine water treatment; fundamental mechanics theory of water-bearing coal rocks; surrounding rock water disasters; loess collapsibility; soil liquefaction

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

Research on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics

edited by

Zhi-jun Dai

and

Jie Wang

submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2418 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal geomorphology; coastal sediment dynamics; coastal resilience; river morphodynamics; runoff changes; sediment discharge; estuarine change

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

Advances in Biological Technologies for Drinking and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez

,

Barbara Muñoz-Palazon

and Alejandro Rodriguez-Sanchez

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8010 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater biological treatment; drinking water treatment; anaerobic reactor systems; aerobic reactor technologies; environmental biotechnology; groundwater treatment; membrane-based bioreactors; granular biomass processes; microbial communities in water and wastewater treatment

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

Transport of Mixture of Cohesive and Non-Cohesive Sediments in Rivers

edited by

Bommanna Krishnappan

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1503 | Submission Open

Keywords: cohesive sediment; non-cohesive sediment; transport of sediment mixture; river flows; erosion and deposition; flocculation; critical conditions

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

The Impacts of Human Activities on the Functional Ecology of Coastal Microbial Communities

edited by Qiuzhen Wang, Xinlong An and

Guangyi Wang

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1501 | Submission Open

Keywords: human activities; microbial communities; marine pollution; marine conservation; climate change; eutrophication; metagenomics; coastal ecosystems; marine ecological balance; deep sea

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

Innovative Approaches in Groundwater Pollution Source Identification and Quality Monitoring: Challenges and Future Directions

edited by Lixin Yi

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater pollution source identification; water quality monitoring; hydrogeological modeling; big data analytics; isotopic tracing; data integration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Intelligent Safety Diagnosis and Reinforcement of Water-Related Buildings

edited by Yangtao Li,

Yang Wei

and Hao Gu

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6271 | Submission Open

Keywords: dams; breakwaters and reservoirs; hydraulic structures; hydropower refurbishment; smart diagnosis; structural safety; hydraulic rehabilitation; dike & coastal defense safety; intelligent management & reinforcement; machine learning & deep learning

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

Insights on the Water–Energy–Food Nexus and Sustainable Development

edited by

Riza Radmehr

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5329 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental sustainability; food production; water management; energy security; machine learning; waste management; remote sensing analysis

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

Evapotranspiration and Plant Water Stress Measurements as the Driving Standard for Agricultural Irrigation

edited by

Teresa Afonso do Paço

,

Maria Isabel Freire Ribeiro Ferreira

and

Joao Rolim Lopes

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4354 | Submission Open

Keywords: evapotranspiration; irrigation scheduling; deficit irrigation; water stress indicators; ground truth data

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

Solid-Liquid Separation Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

edited by Wenjun Zhang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 425 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid– liquid separation technology; wastewater treatment; mineral processing wastewater; flocculation and sedi-mentation; technological innovation

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

Climate Risk Management, Sea Level Rise and Coastal Impacts

edited by

Nawin Raj

, Nathan Downs and Lila Singh-Peterson

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 24351 | Submission Open

Keywords: oceanic changes; climate risk management; deep learning; climate change; sea level rise; remote sensing; artificial intelligence; machine learning; coastal changes; oceanography; wetland changes; mangrove changes

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

Water Quality Examination: The Investigation of Heavy Metal Contamination, Nutrients, and Organic Pollutants in Aquatic Environments for an Enhanced Prevention and Purification Process

edited by

Thomas Dippong

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14422 | Submission Open

Keywords: water pollution; contamination of groundwater; aquatic ecosystems; monitoring of water resources; management for sustainability; removal of heavy metals; eutrophication; bioremediation; chemical or biological technologies; aquatic environments; risk assessment; phytoremediation of water; microplastics in water; nutrients in water; heavy metal in water; organic pollutants in water; bacterial contamination of water

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

Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and the Circular Economy—2nd Edition

edited by

Tao Zhang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13136 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; circular economy; biomass waste; resource recovery; green chemistry; thermal conversion; anaerobic process; aerobic process

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

Effects of Groundwater and Surface Water on the Natural Geo-Hazards, 2nd Edition

edited by Xudong Zhang,

,

,

and

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13102 | Submission Open

Keywords: water modeling; soil– water interaction; rock– water interaction; geo-hazards; water-induced problems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Recent Advances in Flood Risk Assessment and Management

edited by Xiaolei Zhang and Xiao Liu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13014 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood risk assessment; hydraulic and hydrological modeling; climate change and flood frequency; flood risk mapping; flood protection infrastructure; early warning systems; socioeconomic impacts of flooding; community-based flood management; flood resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Impacts of Climate Change & Human Activities on Wetland Ecosystems

edited by Zhongqing Yan, Guopeng Liang, Yingxin Shang and Xueping Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9979 | Submission Open

Keywords: wetland ecosystems; ecosystem services and functions; protection and restoration; climate change and human activities; wetland hydrological processes; greenhouse gas (GHGs) fluxes; nutrient cycle and energy flow; water environment quality

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

Slope Stability Analyses and Landslide Risk Assessment Under Hydrodynamic Action

edited by

Zheng-Yi Feng

,

Cheng-Yu Ku

and

Frank Tsai

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9839 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide; debris flow; river bank erosion and protection; slope stability; landslide risk assessment; groundwater seepage; landslide mitigation; water erosion; sediment transport

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

Evaluation of Microbiological Indicators for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

edited by

Anna Lenart-Boroń

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9405 | Submission Open

Keywords: antibiotic resistance; bacteria; drinking water; fungi; health risks; irrigation; microbiological contamination; protozoa; treatment plants; viruses; wastewater treatment; water pollution; water reuse

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

Microplastics Pollution in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Xueqiang Lu

and Chengtao Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8354 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics; ecotoxicology; aquatic systems; detection; mitigation strategies

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

Machine Learning Applications in the Water Domain

edited by

Yonggui Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 8315 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource; machine learning (ML); neural network; hydrological phenomena; water quality; time series prediction; water body identification; classification; comparative analysis; interpretability of ML

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

Flood Inundation Modeling and Mapping: Application of Hydrodynamic Models, Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Tools

edited by

Fazlul Karim

and

Catherine Ticehurst

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8215 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrology; flood frequency; hydrodynamic modeling; remote sensing; machine learning; satellite imagery; SRTM; LiDAR; Sentinel-1; Sentinel-2; Landsat; floods; inundation; flood risk; uncertainty analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Global Water Risks Across Shared River Corridors in Transboundary Basins

edited by

Shahbaz Khan

,

Arfan Arshad

,

Fazlullah Akhtar

and Zaichen Xiang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7652 | 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)

Applications of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Xuetong Yang

, Rui Zhang and Yang Hu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 7604 | Submission Open

Keywords: persistent (micro)pollutants; PFAS; wastewater treatment; ozonation; environmental sustainability; water quality; life cycle assessment

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

The Safety Operations and Intelligent Control of Water Network Engineering Systems

edited by

Yantao Zhu

,

Rui Pang

and

Binghan Xue

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7126 | Submission Open

Keywords: water network safety; intelligent control systems; risk assessment; IoT and AI integration; infrastructure reliability

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

Water Footprint and Energy Sustainability

edited by

Winnie Gerbens-Leenes

and

S.D. Vaca Jimenez

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6819 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– energy nexus; energy sustainability; water resources management; water footprint assessment; sustainable electricity production; water; land and carbon footprint trade-offs

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

Slope Stability Analyses and Risk Assessment for Rainfall-Induced Landslides

edited by

Qihang Li

,

Xiaoshuang Li

and Jiang Song

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5956 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslides; rainfall infiltration; slope stability; physical model experiment; numerical modelling; machine learning; advanced algorithms; failure mechanism; mitigation measures; monitoring and early warning

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

Application of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Purification

edited by

Yi Ren

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5877 | Submission Open

Keywords: water purification; wastewater treatment; water restoration; emerging contaminants; advanced oxidation processes; Fenton-like oxidation; photocatalysis; electrocatalysis; ozonation; non-thermal plasma; electron beam

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

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

edited by Jingyuan Xue, Liuyue He and

Fan Zhang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5532 | 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)

Research on Water Supply Systems and on the Treatment and Recovery of Wastewater and Stormwater

edited by

António Manuel Abreu Freire Diogo

,

Enedir Ghisi

and

Célia dos Anjos Alves

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5364 | Submission Open

Keywords: water supply systems; water resources management; non-conventional water sources; water supply networks; urban water infrastructures planning; design and rehabilitation; water quality; water treatment; public health; wastewater treatment and reuse; stromwater harvesting; environemtal sustainability

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

Advanced Numerical Approaches for Multiphase and Cavitating Flows

edited by Linmin Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5233 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiphase flow; cavitation; numerical simulation; Eulerian– Lagrangian approach; computational fluid dynamics

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

Marine Biodiversity and Its Relationship with Climate/Environment

edited by

Francesco Rendina

and Valentina Perricone

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4798 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine biodiversity; marine ecosystems; climate change; ocean acidification; global warming; species adaptation; habitat shift; ecosystem services; environmental impacts; marine conservation; sustainable management

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

Application of Hydrological Modelling to Water Resources Management

edited by

Doosun Kang

,

Amir Saman Tayerani Charmchi

and

Fatemeh Ghobadi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4792 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate-change adaptation; climate-related disasters; decision support systems; digital twins; early warning systems; environmental uncertainties; hydrological modeling; integrated water resources management (IWRM); machine learning and deep learning; model-informed decision making; multi-criteria decision making; multi-objective opti-mization; optimal water allocation; probabilistic modeling; proactive management strategies; reinforcement learning; remote sensing and GIS applications; scheduling and planning; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); water– energy nexus; water supply and demand; water resources management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Advanced Remote Sensing for Coastal System Monitoring and Management

edited by

Chunpeng Chen

,

Ce Zhang

and

Wenting Wu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3970 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal zones; remote sensing; coastal sustainable management; deep learning

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

Study on Environmental Hydrology and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Basins, Estuaries and Offshore

edited by

Biyun Guo

and

Chunyan Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3949 | Submission Open

Keywords: water environment; coastal estuary; hydrodynamic; mathematical model

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

Sustainable Water Management in Agricultural Irrigation

edited by Dat Q Tran

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3444 | Submission Open

Keywords: irrigated agriculture; cropping patterns; irrigation technologies; managed aquifer recharge (MAR); re-claimed/treated water; water– energy– food nexus; transboundary conflict and cooperation; water institutions

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

Machine Learning Models for Flood Hazard Assessment

edited by

Álvaro Sordo-Ward

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3340 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; artificial intelligent; flood hazard; flood forecasting; flood warning; flood risk; models; real time; monitoring systems; climate change; new sensors; mitigation strategies

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

Risk Assessment and Mitigation for Water Conservancy Projects

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3294 | 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 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2232 | 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)

Advances in Metal Removal and Recovery from Water

edited by

Xiande Xie

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2065 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; water treatment; metal pollution removal; metal recovery; absorption; heavy metal

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

Studies on Toxic Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems

edited by Zongming Ren and

Chunlei Xia

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1951 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic toxicology; online monitoring technology; individual responses; toxic effects; water pollution; biodiversity; ecosystems

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

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