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Advances in Swimming Pool Hygiene Safety and Spa Research
edited by Athena Mavridou, Georgia Mandilara and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3383 | Submission Open
Keywords: swimming pools; hygiene safety; water microbiology; water chemistry; disinfection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and One Health)
Groundwater Hydrology in Karst Media: Resources and Sustainability in Engineering submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3202 | Submission Open
Keywords: karst hydrology; water resources; karst springs; sustainability; engineering; research
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Water-Related Disasters in Adaptation to Climate Change
edited by Mikio Ishiwatari and Akhilesh Surjan
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2798 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change adaptation; mobilizing climate change finance; flood protection; transdisciplinary approach; pub-lic– private-partnership; community-based disaster risk reduction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Biogeochemical Processes in Lakes, Ponds and Reservoirs of Urban Environments
edited by , and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2188 | 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)
Climate Change Uncertainties in Integrated Water Resources Management
edited by Thomas Ramsey and Liang Yuan
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2150 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; integrated water resources management (IWRM); transboundary rivers; uncertainty; sustainability; water conflict
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Remote Sensing Application in Support of Water-Soil-Plant Relationships
edited by Genghong Wu and Yi Zeng
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1591 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; water– soil– plant relationships; soil moisture; vegetation monitoring; hydrological modeling; precision agriculture; uavs; satellite imagery; climate change; data fusion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Sustainable Groundwater Management and Mitigation of Land Subsidence: Evaluating Environmental Impacts and Resilience Strategies
edited by Shih-Jung Wang and Wei-Chia Hung
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1565 | Submission Open
Keywords: aquifer recharge strategies; resilience in groundwater systems; land use change and subsidence; hydrogeological risk assessment; ecohydrology and environmental impact; adaptive water management; remote sensing in groundwater monitoring; groundwater quality degradation; integrated water resource management; hydrogeological simulation models
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Numerical Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport
edited by , and Hongjie Wen
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1555 | 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)
Landslide on Hydrological Response
edited by Lei Zhang
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1438 | Submission Open
Keywords: water-induced landslide; landslide stability; deformation mechanism; landslide susceptibility mapping; multi-fields monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Review Papers of Urban Water Management 2025
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1117 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban water infrastructure; urban water supply; urban drainage; urban catchment hydrology and modeling; sponge cities; stormwater management; rainwater harvesting; green roofs; permeable pavement systems; urban water contamination; effects of urbanization; sustainable development; wastewater; urban wastewater reuse; flood risk management; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
Extreme Rainfall and Hydrological Extremes: Monitoring and Prediction Using Machine Learning and Physical Modeling
edited by and Zhaoqiang Zhou
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1097 | Submission Open
Keywords: extreme rainfall; prediction; hydrology; remote sensing; early warning; climate change; machine learning; disaster risk; data assimilation; flood forecasting
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
Next-Generation Iceberg Behavior Modeling: Integrating Machine Learning, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Environmental Dynamics
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 761 | Submission Open
Keywords: iceberg modeling; machine learning; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); ocean– ice interactions; climate impact on icebergs; remote sensing; Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Interplay Between Meteorological, Hydrological and Agricultural Droughts Under the Influence of Changing Climate
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 522 | Submission Open
Keywords: drought; drought propagation; drought mitigation; drought impact assessment; climate change; extreme events; remote sensing; spatial and temporal assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Research on Microplastic Pollution in Water Environment submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 310 | 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)
Research Progress on the Utilization of Energy Substances in Sludge from Urban Sewage Treatment Plants submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 303 | Submission Open
Keywords: sewage sludge; energy recovery; anaerobic digestion; pyrolysis; gasification; biogas production; urban waste management; bio-oil; syngas; circular economy
(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 , Zsolt Kozma and Peter Burek
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 252 | 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)
Coastal Engineering and Wave Hydrodynamics Based on Meshless Methods
edited by Can Huang and Jinxin Wu
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 244 | Submission Open
Keywords: meshless method; wave– structure interactions; multi-phase flows; wave energy; marine gas hydrate; submarine landslide; underwater robots
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Multi-Objective Optimization for Sustainable Groundwater Management
edited by Shankar Karuppannan and Nafyad Serre Kawo
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 226 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-objective optimization; groundwater management; sustainable water resources; decision support systems; aquifer modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Water Pollution Monitoring, Control, and Prevention
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 141 | Submission Open
Keywords: water pollution; monitoring technology; intelligent warning; water quality model; artificial intelligence; pollution prevention and control; water resource management; wastewater resource utilization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
From Theory to Practice: Implementing Resilience, Adaptation and Drivers of Change Frameworks in Water Basin Management submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open
Keywords: resilience implementation; adaptive management; practical applications; water governance; social-ecological systems; management tools; operational frameworks; decision-support; policy reform; evaluation metrics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
Biodiversity Assessment and Conservation in High-Altitude Freshwater Systems submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open
Keywords: freshwater; community; high altitude; assessment; management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Flow Hydrodynamic in Open Channels: Interaction with Natural or Man-Made Structures, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open
Keywords: river and open channel flows; hydrodynamic; vegetation; local scouring; turbulent jets; hydraulic jumps; boundary layers; solitary waves and tidal bores; experiments; numerical modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Applied Agricultural and Environmental Hydrogeology: From Field Monitoring to Numerical Approaches
edited by Massimiliano Schiavo, , and Eleonora Carol
submission deadline 1 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 315 | Submission Open
Keywords: applied hydrogeology; monitoring; numerical modeling; geochemistry; geostatistics; machine learning; agricultural engineering; salinization; environmental engineering
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Water Quality, Wastewater Treatment and Water Recycling, 2nd Edition
edited by Memory Tekere
submission deadline 5 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 150 | 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)
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: The Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources submission deadline 10 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2092 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban water supply; urban drainage; sustainable urban water management strategies; sponge cities; stormwater harvesting; rainwater use in buildings; green roofs; permeable pavement systems to filter stormwater; urban water contamination; effects of urbanisation; sustainable development; urban wastewater reuse; flood risk management; water resources; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Advances in Plateau Lake Water Quality and Eutrophication
edited by Zhenghui Fu and
submission deadline 10 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 466 | Submission Open
Keywords: simulation of watershed water environmental processes; environmental planning and management; eutrophication risk assessment and management; algal bloom warning and emergency response; multi-scale environmental risk zoning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Water Resources Allocation, Planning, and Regulation for Sustainable Management
edited by
submission deadline 10 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 148 | 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)
Water Resources, Economic Development and Environment Carrying Capacity
edited by , Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10499 | Submission Open
Keywords: water resource management; environmental assessment; carrying capacity; industry development; economic growth
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
Artificial Intelligence in Water Science: Opportunities, Prospects, and Concerns
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 8145 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; emerging contaminant; wastewater treatment; groundwater; surface water
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Long-Term Coastal Evolution and Morphodynamics: Ecosystem Protection and Coastal Safety
edited by Fu Wang, Fengling Yu, Yan Li and Xiaohe Lai
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 10 articles | Viewed by 7068 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal evolution; transgression; Holocene sea-level change; coastal wetland; shoreline change; ecosystem protection; coastal safety
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Remote Sensing of Spatial-Temporal Variation in Surface Water
edited by , and Yongkai An
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3045 | Submission Open
Keywords: surface water; remote sensing; spatial-temporal dynamics; water cycle; data fusion; uncertainty
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Agricultural Water and Land Resources Planning and Management: Challenges and Endeavors
edited by , Zhihui Tian and Lijie Shi
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2793 | Submission Open
Keywords: water resources; land resources; agricultural water use; water and land resource matching; agricultural water and land resource management; optimal allocation; climate change; sustainable management; resource carrying capacity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
Research on River Environmental Flows and Habitat Restoration
edited by , and Yicheng Fu
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2145 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental flows; riverine habitat restoration; ecosystem integrity; water resource planning; ecological flow management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Application of Microbial Technology in Wastewater Treatment
edited by Xiwei He and Depeng Wang
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1777 | Submission Open
Keywords: microbial technology; wastewater treatment; high-risk pollutants; carbon neutrality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Stormwater Management in Sponge Cities
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 16469 | Submission Open
Keywords: NbS; rainwater and stormwater management; stormwater quality; runoff reduction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
The Application of Novel Biotechnologies for Removal of Emerging Contaminants
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9241 | Submission Open
Keywords: microplastic; antibiotics; heavily polluted wastewater; microorganisms communities; membranes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Advanced Adsorption Technology for Water and Wastewater Treatment
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9019 | Submission Open
Keywords: adsorption; innovative materials; emerging pollutants; wastewater treatment; water treatment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Hydraulic Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Digital Twin Technology
edited by Chenfei Shao, Hao Gu, , , Yating Hu and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8921 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; digital twin technology; safety monitoring; hydraulic engineering; safety monitoring data preprocessing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Advanced Oxidation and Photocatalytic Approaches for Efficient Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Water Treatment
edited by Liping Wang and Changyu Lu
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7326 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced oxidation process; photocatalytic semiconductors; organic pollutants; water treatment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Advancement of Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Water Reuse
edited by , , Yu-Jung Liu and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7150 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced oxidation process; organics removal; transformation products; toxicity evaluation; pre- and post-process; water and wastewater treatment; water reuse; cost-effectiveness analysis; policy and management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Constructed Wetlands and Emerging Pollutants
edited by , Cheng Shen and Ting Wei
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6083 | Submission Open
Keywords: constructed wetlands; emerging pollutants; wastewater treatment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Microplastics in Water Environments: Sources, Transport and Degradation submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5890 | Submission Open
Keywords: microplastics pollution in water environments; point and nonpoint sources of microplastics; environmental distribution; fate; and transport of microplastics; definition of microplastics and international regulations; health effects of microplastic exposures; transformation of microplastics in the aquatic environment; abiotic and biotic aging of microplastics; methods for the analysis of microplastics in the water environment; technologies for removal of microplastics; scientific perspective on microplastics in nature and society
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Advancing Applications in Hydrogeochemical Processes in Groundwater Systems
edited by and Nenad Marić
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5699 | Submission Open
Keywords: groundwater systems; hydrogeochemical processes; hydrochemistry; isotopic and geochemical tracing; emerging contaminants and water quality concerns; karst hydrology; predictive modeling; water resource management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Water Pollutants and Human Health: Challenges and Perspectives
edited by Simon Jackson and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5052 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomarkers; endotoxin; fungal contaminants; AMR genes; antimicrobials; microplastics; emerging pathogens
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and One Health)
Membrane Separation and Water Treatment: Modeling and Application
edited by Xianghao Ren, Linan Xing and Jooil Park
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3707 | Submission Open
Keywords: water and wastewater treatment and reuse; membrane technologies; activated carbon; adsorption; chemical filtration; gas separation; energy storage and utilization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Sustainable Development of Water, Energy and Environment Systems (SDEWES 2024)
edited by , , José María Ponce-Ortega, and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3609 | Submission Open
Keywords: water management; sustainability comparisons and measurements; green economy and better governance; climate resilient water systems; environmental policy and management; transformative water governance; water and wastewater treatment; water– energy nexus; energy and water efficiency; water demand management; water systems in rural; regional; and island communities
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water-Energy Nexus)
Soil Water Balance and Management: Recent Advances and Future Challenges
edited by Pei Tian, and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3163 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil erosion; soil water management; soil and water conservation; water erosion processes; water and soil pollution control; non-point source pollution control; integrated water management; erosion modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Water-Induced Geo-Disaster Reduction in the Context of Climate Change: Hydrology, Management Strategies, and Ecological Geological Engineering submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3078 | Submission Open
Keywords: water-induced geo-disaster; water burst; hydrological cycle processes; soil and water conservation; monitoring systems; numerical simulation; ecological restoration; resilience strategies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Intelligent Analysis, Monitoring and Assessment of Debris Flow
edited by Weijie Zhang
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2679 | Submission Open
Keywords: debris flow; water– soil coupling; artificial intelligence; numerical analysis; monitoring; risk evaluation; mitigation measure
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Recent Advances in Photocatalysis in Water and Wastewater Treatment submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2562 | 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)
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