Water

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 2952 | 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 18468 | 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 15412 | 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 14831 | 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)

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 7411 | 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 6814 | 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)

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

edited by

Igor Zelnik

and

Mateja Germ

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4211 | 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)

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 3977 | 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)

Coastal Engineering and Fluid–Structure Interactions, 2nd Edition

edited by

Miaohua Mao

and

Junliang Gao

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 3022 | 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 2701 | 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 2615 | 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)

Rethinking Wastewater: Microbial Solutions for a Sustainable Future

edited by

Bharat Manna

and

Naresh Singhal

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2610 | 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)

Water-Soil-Vegetation Interactions in Changing Climate

edited by Mingjie Shi

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2556 | 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)

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 1872 | 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 1667 | 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 1614 | 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 1505 | 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)

Groundwater Environment Evolution and Early Risk-Warning

edited by Tiejun Song and

Xiaofang Shen

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 925 | 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)

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 284 | 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 261 | 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)

Water Management and Geohazard Mitigation in a Changing Climate

edited by

Laszlo Podolszki

,

Igor Karlović

and Kosta Urumović

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 14288 | 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 6593 | 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 3399 | 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 3287 | 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 2331 | 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 1579 | 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 1246 | 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 1065 | 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 1014 | 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 849 | 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 482 | 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 264 | 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 9955 | 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 14626 | 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)

Assessment of Groundwater Quality and Pollution Remediation

edited by Yong Qian and

Zhi Dou

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 10 articles | Viewed by 14463 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater quality; hydrogeochemical processes; environmental background values; high-fluoride groundwater; emerging pollutants; pollution prevention and control zoning; risk control; mine pollution control; groundwater pollution remediation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advances in Swimming Pool Hygiene Safety and Spa Research

edited by Athena Mavridou, Georgia Mandilara and

Vincenzo Romano Spica

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12607 | Submission Open

Keywords: swimming pools; hygiene safety; water microbiology; water chemistry; disinfection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and One Health)

The Safety Operations and Intelligent Control of Water Network Engineering Systems

edited by

Yantao Zhu

,

Rui Pang

and

Binghan Xue

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10685 | 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)

Application of Big Data and Machine Learning in Hydrological Forecasting and Water Resource Management

edited by

You-Gan Wang

and

Jing Xu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9419 | Submission Open

Keywords: big data; machine learning; physics-informed machine learning; deep learning; hydrology; explainable AI; water resources; hydrological forecasting

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

Advanced Research in Non-Point Source Pollution of Watersheds

edited by

Feng Liu

, Tao Wang, Yan Xu and Cen Meng

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8910 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-point source pollution; landscape patterns; ecological treatments; pollutant removal and resource recovery; emerging contaminants; agriculture green development; watershed intelligent management

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

Sustainable Water Resources Management in a Changing Environment

edited by

Sergio Cappucci

, Emiliana Valentini and

Andrea Petroselli

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5726 | Submission Open

Keywords: geomatics; GIS and remote sensing applications; water and landscape management; the management of natural resources (soil; water; sediment) from dams; channels and river banks; water– climate interactions; earth surface processes; coastal erosion and river drainage networks; landslides and flooding; natural hazards; wetland reclamation; “ Ecologically sustainable” water and wastewater treatment and management

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

Climate Change Uncertainties in Integrated Water Resources Management

edited by Thomas Ramsey and Liang Yuan

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5372 | 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)

Sustainable Research on Water Quality Monitoring and Nutrient Pollution Control

edited by

Yang Song

, Yi Hong and

Chunqi Shen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3938 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable water management; eutrophication; harmful algal blooms; hypoxia; environmental DNA; digital twin; IoT and remote sensing; machine learning and AI; biogeochemical modeling; ecosystem restoration

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

Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources and Water Risks, 3rd Edition

edited by

Haibo Yang

, Fei Chen, Fei Wang,

Yuyan Zhou

and

Xiaosong Shu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2576 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water resource management; drought; flood; remote sensing

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

Monitoring and Degradation of Drugs and Organic Pollutant in Wastewater

edited by

Sergio Santana Viera

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2499 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging pollutants; persistent; mobile; and toxic compounds; high-resolution mass spectrometry; transformation products; extraction and preconcentration techniques

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

Extreme Rainfall and Hydrological Extremes: Monitoring and Prediction Using Machine Learning and Physical Modeling

edited by

Muhammad Abrar Faiz

and Zhaoqiang Zhou

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2148 | 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)

Carbon Storage in Lake Sediments Under Climate Change

edited by

Barbara Futa

and

Joanna Gmitrowicz-Iwan

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1942 | Submission Open

Keywords: carbon cycle; drought; lake; dam reservoir; carbon stocks; humus substances; fulvid and humic acids; sediments; indicators

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

Soil Water Use and Irrigation Management, 2nd Edition

edited by

Roman Rolbiecki

,

Stanisław Rolbiecki

and

Barbara Jagosz

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1772 | Submission Open

Keywords: water management; crop water requirements; soil hydraulic properties; sustainable development of rural areas; soil fertility; drip irrigation; soil and water relationship; evapotranspiration; precision agriculture; irrigation and drainage systems

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

Impact of Climate Changes on Humid and Arid Geomorphic Systems

edited by