Water

Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Management of Groundwater Resources: New Developments, Challenges and Untapped Potentials

edited by Claudia Cherubini

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8863 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; groundwater management; groundwater heads; contaminant transport; saltwater intrusion; optimization of monitoring networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Protection and Restoration of Lake and Water Reservoir

edited by Xiaoxiao Wang

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1715 | Submission Open

Keywords: riparian restoration; water quality; nutrient cycling; sediment management; freshwater ecosystems; climate change; sustainable management; ecological resilience

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

Digital Twin Technologies for Advanced Wastewater Treatment Operation and Control

edited by

Usman Safder

and Qadeer Akbar Sial

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 1046 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twins; water treatment; wastewater treatment; water resource recovery facility; water distribution; sewer systems; optimization; process modeling; artificial intelligence; machine learning; industrial internet of things; pre-dictive maintenance; smart water; big data

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

Sustainable Remediation of Pesticides in Contaminated Water and Sites

edited by

Limin Ma

and Deyang Kong

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 413 | Submission Open

Keywords: pesticide pollution; emerging contaminants; environmental behavior; sustainable remediation techniques; water remediation; site remediation; compound stable isotope analysis (CSIA); sustainable management strategies

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

Water and Society: Challenges for Freshwater Quality Under a Climate Change Scenario

edited by

Daniela R. De Figueiredo

and

Patrícia S. M. Santos

submission deadline 12 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5730 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; freshwater ecosystems; water quality; societal challenges

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

Coastal Engineering and Fluid–Structure Interactions

edited by

Miaohua Mao

and

Junliang Gao

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 7440 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal engineering; wave– structure interactions; high-fidelity numerical modeling; laboratory and field experiments; mathmatical 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)

Impacts of Environmental Change and Human Activities on Aquatic Ecosystems, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jian Hu

,

Guilin Han

and Qian Zhang

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3076 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic ecosystems; migration and transformation; source identification; risk assessment; sustainable development

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

Saline Water Irrigation and the Impact of Salt Stresses on Plants

edited by

Ahmad Azeem

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 178 | Submission Open

Keywords: saline irrigation; salt tolerance; crop yield; irrigation techniques; soil amendments; halophytic plants; microbial in-oculants; remote sensing; precision irrigation; plant resilience

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

Risks of Hydrometeorological Extremes

edited by

Oluwafemi Adeyeri

and Kazeem Abiodun Ishola

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 18364 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrometeorological extremes and impacts; climate change; flood risk assessment; drought mitigation; extreme weather events; hydrological modelling; climate models and projections; climate resilience; forecasting techniques including the use of artificial intelligence; risk management; adaptive strategies

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

Groundwater Quality and Contamination at Regional Scales

edited by

Guanxing Huang

and

Liangping Li

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 15717 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater quality; groundwater contamination; human activities; land use; assessment of groundwater quality; natural background levels; evaluation of groundwater contamination; geostatistical techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Applications of Remote Sensing and GISs in River Basin Ecosystems

edited by Jiren Xu,

Pengfei Li

,

Changjia Li

and

Zhihui Wang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12129 | 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)

Advances in Management and Optimization of Urban Water Networks

edited by

Mohsen Hajibabaei

,

Robert Sitzenfrei

, Mohsen Shahandashti and Milad Latifi

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11965 | Submission Open

Keywords: water distribution; urban drainage; stormwater networks; sewer networks; optimization; resilience; sustainable management; water quality; critical infrastructure; technological innovations

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

Water-Related Landslide Hazard Process and Its Triggering Events

edited by Wei Liu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11698 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide; rainfall infiltration; pore water pressure; liquid– solid multiphase flow; hydrology; numerical simu-lation; risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Research on Microplastic Pollution in Water and Soil Environment

edited by

Kai Cai

and Taoze Liu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11466 | 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)

Research Status of Operation and Management of Hydropower Station

edited by Dong Liu and Yanhe Xu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 10924 | Submission Open

Keywords: conventional hydropower stations; cascade hydropower stations; pumped storage power stations; non-linear modelling; combined operation; optimal control; multi-energy systems; stability analysis; new power systems; performance evaluation; fault diagnosis; trend prediction and early warning; renewable energy; artificial intelligence; optimization algorithms

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

Research on Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry: Challenges and Prospects

edited by

Josip Terzić

and

Staša Borović

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10843 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrogeology; hydrochemistry; geochemistry; groundwater; aquifer; hydrothermal systems; energy applications; groundwater legislation and management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Energy Recovery and Clean Water: Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment

edited by

Navneet Kumar

and

Bernhard Tischbein

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10009 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– energy nexus; energy policy; water governance; water quality; groundwater and matter flow modelling; groundwater irrigation; solar powered pumps; wastewater treatment; water– energy– food nexus; water distribution systems; GIS and remote sensing; artificial intelligence; climate change

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

Geochemistry and Removal of Heavy Metals and Other Pollutants in Water

edited by

Qiusheng Yuan

and

Xun Wang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6341 | Submission Open

Keywords: geochemistry; heavy metals; water pollution; remediation techniques; water treatment; environmental impact; ecosystem health

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

Innovations in Anaerobic Digestion Technology

edited by

Rebecca Serna-García

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4910 | Submission Open

Keywords: anaerobic digestion; biogas valorization; value-added product production; resource recovery; bioenergy; biorefineries

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

Application of Numerical Modeling in Estuarine and Coastal Dynamics

edited by Hongyi Zhao,

Xiaoli Liu

and

Jianfeng Zhu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4328 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal modeling; ocean hydrodynamics model; shelf sea hydrodynamics model; local scour and protection; fluid– soil– structure interaction; solute transport in marine sediments; neural network models

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

Applications of Nanozymes and Other Nanomaterials in the Water Environment: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

Gongduan Fan

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4112 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanomaterials; nanozyme; pollutant degradation; pollutant detection; water treatment processes

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

Coupled Numerical Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Surface Water Interactions

edited by

Shengchao Yu

and

Xiaolang Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1874 | Submission Open

Keywords: numerical modeling; aquifer characterization; hydrogeology; hydrochemistry; groundwater hydrology; groundwater flow; solute (reactive) transport; surface water and groundwater interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Pesticides in Water and Health

edited by

Li Chen

and Wenjun Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1848 | Submission Open

Keywords: pesticide; bioaccumulation; toxicological assessment; health risk assessment; in vitro; in vivo

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

Groundwater Environmental Impacts and Control Strategies of Coal Mining and Energy Development/Storage Activities

edited by

Yonghui Wu

, Lijun Liu and Jingwei Huang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1808 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquifer-protected coal mining; water conservation mining technology; sustainable development of geothermal energy; aquifer gas/thermal storage; underground water/gas/thermal reservoir in mine goaf; evolution of groundwater dynamic fields; recycling technology and pollution control of mine water; dynamic monitoring and remediation of groundwater; coupled flow in fractured porous media; rock mechanics under THMC multi-field coupling; fracture initiation and propagation; low-carbon treatment and resource utilization of mine water

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advances in Sustainable Management of Contaminated Stormwater

edited by

Jens Tränckner

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1715 | Submission Open

Keywords: stormwater management; commercial areas contamination; traffic contamination; agriculture pollutants; stormwater treatment; urban drainage; water quality

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

Sustainable Nutrients Management Strategies to Reduce Nutrients Pollution Along the Landscape-River-Sea Systems

edited by

Lorenzo Proia

, Josue González Camejo and Laura Díaz-Guerra

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1678 | Submission Open

Keywords: nutrients; pollution; soil; rivers; sea; wastewaters; agricultural practices; environmental technologies; sustainability; circularity

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

Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Ecosystem Dynamics in Mountainous and Cold-Region Ecosystems

edited by Terry V. Callaghan CMG

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1524 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources and water use; biodiversity; climate changes; cold regions; mountainous regions; ecosystems; ecosystem services and feedback; human impact; population

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Resilient Rivers: Integrating Nature-Based Solutions with Hydraulic Engineering

edited by

Su-Chin Chen

and

Kao-Hua Chang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1317 | Submission Open

Keywords: Nature-based Solutions (NbS); hydraulic engineering; eco-hydraulics; river resilience; flood mitigation; sediment transport; erosion control; green infrastructure; river restoration; hydrodynamic modeling; climate adaptation; water quality; ecosystem services; sustainable river management; river rewilding

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

Algae Distribution, Risk, and Prediction

edited by

Jiawen Wang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 963 | Submission Open

Keywords: algae; biodiversity; spatiotemporal distribution; risk; management

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

Isotope Hydrology: Tracing Water’s Journey and Water–Rock Interactions in a Changing World

edited by

Tianming Huang

,

Buli Cui

, Xianjun Xie, Zhongyin Cai, Jinlong Zhou and

Zhonghe Pang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 842 | Submission Open

Keywords: isotope hydrology; water– rock– gas interaction; surface water– groundwater interaction; groundwater recharge; fate of nutrients (S-N-C-P); groundwater age dating; water contamination tracing; water quality; atmospheric water cycle; paleoclimate; geothermal resources; CCUS (carbon capture; utilization; and storage)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Impact of Biochar Additions on Soil Hydraulic Properties

edited by Peizhen Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 648 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil hydraulic properties; biochar characteristic; soil water retention; water-saving irrigation; soil pore characteristics

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

Water Resources and Environment Management in Watersheds with Intensive Human Activities

edited by

Chenning Deng

and

Yang Xu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 203 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; water environment; sustainable management; human activities; influencing factors

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

Engineering Hydrogeology Research Related to Mining Activities, 2nd Edition

edited by Wei Qiao and Bo Li

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 159 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanism of water inrush; prediction of mine water hazard; intelligent warning and monitor of mine water hazard; mine water injection and storage; mine water reinjection and geological storage; mine inflow; evolution of groundwater flow field; water inrush from separate layer; research on rock dynamics with fluid– structure coupling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Engineered Nanoporous Sorbents for Removing Emerging Pollutants from Aqueous Environments

edited by Jian Shen

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 137 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanoporous sorbents; engineering strategies; emerging pollutants; adsorption; water purification

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

Implementation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Marine Ecosystem Management, 3rd Edition

edited by

Genuario Belmonte

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10149 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem services; marine biodiversity; marine environment management; mesophotic environment; carbon sink; fishery and marine food; new marine based tourism; climate history; marine litter

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

Impact of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystems

edited by

Md Khurshid Alam Bhuiyan

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8262 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; global change; marine pollution; fisheries and food security

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

Applications of Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Water Resource Management

edited by

Rana Waqar Aslam

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4567 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological remote sensing; water resource monitoring; satellite hydrology; soil moisture detection; precipitation estimation; flood mapping; drought assessment; multi-sensor integration; machine learning in hydrology; wetlands/lakes dynamics

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

Treatment and Resource Utilization of Urban Sewage Sludge

edited by

Jiangwei Li

, Yan Li and Xiaoyong Yang

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4209 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban sewage sludge; treatment technologies; resource utilization; environmental impact; anaerobic digestion; composting; incineration; land application; circular economy; sustainable management

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

Advancing Data-Driven Approaches in Landscape Hydrology: Innovations and Applications

edited by

Mo Wang

,

Rana Muhammad Adnan Ikram

and

Shiqi Zhou

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2586 | Submission Open

Keywords: data-driven hydrology; machine learning in hydrology; hydroinformatics; climate change adaptation; nature-based solutions; GIS-based hydrological modeling; flood and drought mitigation; sustainable water management

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

Rainfall-Induced Landslides: Influencing, Modelling and Hazard Assessment: 2nd Edition

edited by

Qingzhao Zhang

and Danyi Shen

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2476 | Submission Open

Keywords: rainfall; landslides; causes; modelling; hazard assessment

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

Development of New Wastewater Treatments for the Efficient Removal of Micropollutants

edited by

Marta Otero

,

Olga Matos de Freitas

and

Sónia Figueiredo

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1603 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular management of water; ecotoxicity; emerging concern contaminants; environmental monitoring; life cycle assessment; quaternary treatments; reuse of treated wastewater; sustainable treatment processes

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

Wetland Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment

edited by

Qi Huang

and Tianxiang Wang

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1483 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; monitoring and assessment; aquatic ecosystems; model; sustainability; machine learning

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

Biological Nitrogen Removal in the Multi-Omics Era: Coupling Anammox with Microbial-Mineral Synergy

edited by Zhaoming Zheng,

Xiaoxia Wang

and

Yuanyuan Miao

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1014 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable nitrogen removal processes; anaerobic ammonium oxidation; aerobic granular sludge; microbial& ndash; mineral interactions; multi-omics microbial analysis; bioengineering in wastewater treatment; nitrogen biogeo-chemical cycle; detection and removal of emerging pollutants; water quality assurance technologies; resource re-covery from wastewater

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

Application of Electrochemical Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Arif Reza

and

Soomin Shim

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1000 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrocoagulation; electrooxidation; electro-fenton process; electrodialysis; electrode materials; reactive electrochemical membranes; advanced electrochemical oxidation processes (AEOPs); process modeling and optimization; hybrid electrochemical-biological systems; decentralized wastewater treatment; techno-economic and life cycle assessment (LCA)

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

Advancing the Monitoring and Modelling of Freshwater Systems with New Remote Sensing Technologies, 2nd Edition

edited by

Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 810 | Submission Open

Keywords: airborne remote sensing; flood forecasting; fluvial geomorphology; ice detection; ice characterization; near-ground remote sensing; river and lake modelling; river and lake monitoring; sediment transport; space-borne remote sensing; water quality

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

Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing in Ecohydrology

edited by

Xiaoping Wang

and

Xiangyu Ge

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 439 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite remote sensing; hydrological models; deep learning; data-driven methods

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

Complexities and Uncertainties of Water Policy, Governance and Management

edited by Liang Yuan, Weijun He and Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 187 | Submission Open

Keywords: complexity; uncertainty; adaptability management; resilience governance; cooperation mechanisms

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

Advances in Phytomanagement of Arsenic and Emerging Contaminants in Soil and Water

edited by Patrizia Brunetti and

Giuseppe Capobianco

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 96 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil and sewage sludge contamination; water contamination; Arsenic; microplastics; PFASs heavy metals; molecular and morpho-physiological response in plants; advanced monitoring technologies

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

Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation, 2nd Edition

edited by

Peng Li

, Jianye Ma and

Binhua Zhao

submission deadline 26 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7396 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; soil and water conservation; ecohydrology; climate change; vegetation restoration; gully engineering

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

Advances in Biological Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Jingqing Gao

and

Panpan Liu

submission deadline 27 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 17712 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; biological technologies; nutrient recovery; environmental microbiology; hydrophytes; emerging contaminants; carbon neutrality

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

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