Water

Recent Advances in Photocatalysis in Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

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submission deadline 30 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5191 | 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)

Research on Wetland Ecohydrology

edited by

Qiang Liu

and

Yanfeng Wu

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 333 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

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

edited by

Kashif Akhtar

and

Misbah Naz

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 200 | 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 4507 | 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 679 | 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 6966 | 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 3397 | 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 2787 | 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 18144 | 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 14599 | 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 14473 | 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

,

,

and

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7562 | 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 6986 | 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 6369 | 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 6256 | 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 4609 | 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 4068 | 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 3897 | 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 3885 | 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 3307 | 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 3067 | 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 2788 | 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 2574 | 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 2518 | 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

Zhipan Niu

, Faxing Zhang and Baofeng Di

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2404 | 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

Lianqing Xue

and

Guang Yang

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2377 | 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 2298 | 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 2276 | 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

Fang Yang

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2017 | 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

Juraj Parajka

, Zsolt Kozma and Peter Burek

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1775 | 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

Chuan Wang

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1585 | 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 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 1568 | 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)

Advanced Technologies for Water Erosion Mapping and Environmental Change Detection

edited by

Ben Jarihani

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1563 | 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 1420 | 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 1356 | 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

Yingchen Bai

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1323 | 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

Renata Kędzior

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1116 | 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)

Groundwater Environment Evolution and Early Risk-Warning

edited by Tiejun Song and

Xiaofang Shen

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 873 | 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)

Advances in Innovative Development of Wastewater Treatment Technology

edited by

Joanna Boguniewicz-Zabłocka

and

Ewelina Łukasiewicz

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 681 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; advanced technologies; biological processes; resource recovery; advanced oxidation; hybrid treatment systems; process monitoring and control; circular economy; sustainable water management

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

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 289 | 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 258 | 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 249 | 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 246 | 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)

Flood Risk Characterization and Management for Sustainable Development

edited by

Maria Francesca Bruno

and

Stefania Santoro

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 228 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood risk governance; climate change adaptation; community resilience; multi-stakeholder participation; nature-based solutions

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

Pollution Mechanisms and Ecological Restoration Technologies of Organic Pollutants in Water Bodies

edited by Haiyan Chen

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 203 | Submission Open

Keywords: organic pollutants; aquatic ecosystems; pollution mechanisms; migration pathways; risk assessment

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

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 2812 | 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 13325 | 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 6360 | 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 3243 | 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 3204 | 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)

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