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Monitoring Earth Surface Processes with RADAR: UAV and Satellite Applications for Land and Water Management

edited by

Bernardo M. Cândido

and

Daniel L. Evans

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 446 | Submission Open

Keywords: RADAR remote sensing; UAV-based RADAR; satellite-based RADAR; soil erosion; land and water management; hydrological modeling

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

Water Resource Management: Watershed and Groundwater Pollution

edited by Claus Kohfahl

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 393 | Submission Open

Keywords: watershed management; groundwater pollution; hydrological modeling; water quality; artificial recharge (MAR); surface-groundwater interactions; climate change adaptation; water resource sustainability; Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)

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

Hydraulic Characteristics of Hydrate-Bearing Sediment

edited by

Yanlu Ding

Hailong Lu

and Xiaoqiang Liu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 215 | Submission Open

Keywords: permeability; gas production; multi-phase flow; computational fluid dynamics; sand production

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

Application of Photocatalysis in Water and Wastewater Treatment: Advances and Perspectives

edited by Iqra Nabi and

Aziz Ur Rahim Bacha

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 209 | Submission Open

Keywords: photocatalysis; water treatment; wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation processes; nanomaterials; visible-light photocatalysts; organic and inorganic pollutants removal; water pollution; photocatalytic reactor design; environmental applications

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

Electrocatalysis in Action: From Clean Water to Green Energy

edited by

André Torres-Pinto

and

Hanane Boumeriame

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrocatalysis; hydrogen; water splitting; hydrogen peroxide; wastewater treatment; semiconductors; sustainable energy conversion

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

Integrated Ecohydrological Modelling for Sustainable Water Resource Management in Changing Environments

edited by

Songjun Wu

Xiaoguang Xu

and

Ji Liu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modelling; ecohydrological modelling; water cycling; climate change; management practises; ecohydrological response

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Ecohydraulics and Fish Behavior Simulation

edited by

Tiegang Zheng

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 120 | Submission Open

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

Aquaculture Water Safety, 2nd Edition

edited by

Xingguo Liu

Jun Xie

and

Jie Wang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquaculture; aquaculture engineering; water quality control; aquaculture wastewater treatment; green and low-carbon aquaculture

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

Treatment of Maricultural Wastewater

edited by Xiaoyan Fan,

Yuankun Liu

and Zedong Lu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open

Keywords: biological maricultural wastewater treatment; toxicity assessment; nutrients or emerging pollutant removal; combined pollution; microbial community; antibiotic resistance genes; advanced oxidation technology; membrane filtration technology; energy recovery; resource recovery and circular utilization

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

Petroleum and Plastic Biodegradation and Bioremediation in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Carlos Costa

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: petroleum biodegradation; plastic biodegradation; water pollution by petroleum; microplastics

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

Mechanism and Simulation of Water Erosion and Nutrient Loss on Hillslopes

edited by

Chang Ao

and Weiming Xing

submission deadline 21 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8084 | Submission Open

Keywords: hillslope; soil nutrients; surface runoff; soil loss; hydrological simulation; dynamic mechanisms; simulation models; nutrient loss control

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

Challenges and Innovations in Resilience of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

edited by

G.-Fivos Sargentis

Nikolaos Malamos

and

Theano Iliopoulou

submission deadline 22 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 293 | Submission Open

Keywords: water-energy-food nexus; prosperity; technology water-energy-food nexus; self-sufficient communities; historic famine and plagues due to water-energy-food nexus

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

Science and Technology for Water Purification, 2nd Edition

edited by Yuanfeng Qi and Kai He

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9477 | Submission Open

Keywords: recycling and resources; pollutant removal; by-product remedy; process management; specific fillers and carriers; processing models; reactors; wastewater engineering; identification and analysis

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

Groundwater Quality and Human Health Risk, 2nd Edition

edited by

Dimitrios E. Alexakis

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4953 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater geochemistry; groundwater contamination; groundwater composition and human health risk; groundwater quality; inorganic compounds; organic compounds; trace elements; arsenic; antimony; chromium; microbes; radionuclides; groundwater protection and preservation; groundwater remediation; groundwater treatment technologies

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

Advanced Nanomaterials for Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Chandran Krishnaraj

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3785 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced nanomaterials for waste water treatment; nanomaterials for drinking water treatment; nanomembranes; nanomaterials for water reuse; nanosensors for water quality

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

Exposure, Ecological Effects and Risk Assessment of Emerging Contaminants in Water Environment

edited by Jing Guo

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2560 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; non-targeted screening; effect-directed analysis; high-throughput bioassay; ecological risk

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

Soil Erosion and Sedimentation by Water

edited by

and

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2149 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; sediment yield; soil conservation; erosion plot; basin; sheet erosion; channelized erosion; erosion risk mapping

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

Machine Learning Applications in the Water Domain

edited by

Yonggui Wang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2107 | 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)

Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management

edited by

Koichiro Kuraji

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1869 | Submission Open

Keywords: economics of watershed management; forest hydrology; natural disaster prevension; natural flood management; sustainable forest management; watershed management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Transboundary River Management

edited by Carl Grundy-Warr

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1675 | Submission Open

Keywords: transboundary rivers; transboundary river management and contested water resources; transboundary institutions and forms of governance; transboundary river geopolitics and international relations; hydro-social relations and water resources; the role of NGOs; social movements; and civil society in transboundary river systems

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

Membrane Technology for Water Treatment and Reuse

edited by Lijun Meng and

Xin Liu

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1232 | Submission Open

Keywords: membrane technology; water treatment; water reuse; desalination; membrane fouling; membrane wetting; advanced membrane materials; green membrane; machine learning; organic pollutants

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

Precision Irrigation Water-Saving Technology Under Changing Climates

edited by Xiangping Guo and

Imran Ali Lakhiar

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 859 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision irrigation systems; climate-smart irrigation practices; sustainable agricultural water management; irrigation scheduling and automation; soil moisture sensors and monitoring; remote sensing for water management; UAVs for water management; smart irrigation technologies; agricultural water management under climate change; automated irrigation and IoT in agriculture; evapotranspiration measurement and modeling; water-use optimization through farm machinery

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

Trends in Effective Removal of Emerging Organic Pollutants from Drinking Water and Wastewater

edited by

Talis Juhna

and

Kamila Gruskevica

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 854 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural organic matter (NOM); emerging organic pollutants; persistent organic pollutants; microplastics; endocrine disruptors; antibiotics; drinking water; wastewater; landfill leachate; advanced oxidation; coagulants and coagulation aids; membrane technologies; biological treatments (e.g.; with fungi and algae); foam fractionation

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

POPs in Water Environment: Migration, Transformation and Risk Assessment

edited by

Hao Chen

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 186 | Submission Open

Keywords: persistent organic pollutants (POPs); emissions; migration; environmental behavior; transformation; risk assessment

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

Fate and Transport of Contaminants in Soil and Water

edited by

Changyin Zhu

Da Ouyang

and

Hui Wang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 111 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; micropollutants; soil pollution; water pollution; contaminant remediation; source identifi-cation; fate; and transport; degradation and by-products; numerical modelling

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

Soil Water Use and Irrigation Management

edited by

Roman Rolbiecki

Stanisław Rolbiecki

and

Barbara Jagosz

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16298 | 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)

Water Governance: Current Status and Future Trends

edited by

Robert Patrick

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 8548 | Submission Open

Keywords: water; wastewater; governance; environmental justice; water management; water planning; watersheds

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

ANAMMOX Based Technology for Nitrogen Removal from Wastewater

edited by Cancan Jiang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7263 | Submission Open

Keywords: anammox; partial nitrification; greenhouse gas; quorum sensing; bacterial community

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

Rivers, Estuaries, and Coastal Zones: Sediment Transport and Morphodynamical Models

edited by Leszek M. Kaczmarek

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6374 | Submission Open

Keywords: granular transport; sediment mixtures; morphodynamics; rivers; estuaries; coastal zones; bedload; contact load; suspended load

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

Optimization-Simulation Modeling of Sustainable Water Resource

edited by Zhaocai Wang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5612 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources management; sustainable development of water resources; optimization models; simulation modeling; water planning; water scheduling; water allocation; water environment management; disaster management; decision support systems

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

Recent Advances in Offshore Hydrodynamics

edited by

Chongwei Zhang

and Xuanlie Zhao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2550 | Submission Open

Keywords: waves– structure interaction; offshore engineering; hydrodynamic analysis; ocean renewable energy; fixed and floating offshore wind turbines

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

Advances in Hydraulic and Water Resources Research (3rd Edition)

edited by

Majid Mohammadian

Xiaohui Yan

and

Hossein Kheirkhah Gildeh

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2542 | Submission Open

Keywords: modeling; lab studies; field studies; coastal engineering; river engineering; lakes

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

Emerging Pollutants in Processing of Wastewater

edited by

Yuyang Long

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1262 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging pollutants; emerging pollutants removal; waste/water processing; migration of emerging pollutants; distribution of EPs

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

Hydrological and Hydrochemical Drivers of Solute Export from Watersheds

edited by

Maksym Gusyev

Mark Zheleznyak

and Boris Faybishenko

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 668 | Submission Open

Keywords: solute export; watershed hydrology; hydrochemistry; tracers; nutrients; organic pollutants; metals; radionuclides; runoff; groundwater; modeling

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

Advanced Treatment Technologies for Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater

edited by

Xiayuan Wu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 327 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; advanced treatment technologies; adsorption methods; advanced oxidation processes (AOPs); membrane filtration; hybrid treatment systems; bioremediation; sustainable water management; nanomaterials; water quality restoration

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

Applied Agricultural and Environmental Hydrogeology: From Field Monitoring to Numerical Approaches

edited by Massimiliano Schiavo,

Nicolò Colombani

Abelardo Antònio de Montenegro

and Eleonora Carol

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 195 | 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)

Microbial Ecology and Application of Microbial Technology in Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Xuwang Zhang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 104 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbial ecology; wastewater treatment; biotechnology; bioaugmentation; omics technologies; antibiotic resistance; emerging contaminant

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

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Problems Caused by Water Action

edited by

Qiangling Yao

and

Liqiang Yu

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 503 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– rock interaction; rock mechanics and rock engineering; rock seepage; multi-field coupling; sustainability

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

Anaerobic Digestion Process in Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Binghua Yan

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open

Keywords: anaerobic digestion; waste valorization; metabolic pathway; circular economy

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

Experimental and Modeling Analysis of Ecosystem Service Value in Natural and Man-Made Vegetated Water Bodies

edited by

Giuseppe Francesco Cesare Lama

and

Mariano Crimaldi

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 77 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecohydraulics; ecosystem services; field experiments; modeling; vegetated areas; water quality; water resources management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Monitoring and Modelling of Contaminants in Water Environment

edited by

Hang Wan

, Jingjie Feng,

Hui Li

and Hao Sun

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 8030 | Submission Open

Keywords: water environment monitoring; contaminant hydrology; climate change; environmental hydraulics; deep learning; emerging pollutants; pollution reduction; pollution source analysis

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

Advances in Surface Water and Groundwater Simulation in River Basin

edited by Chengpeng Lu and Peipeng Wu

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3406 | Submission Open

Keywords: surface water-groundwater interaction; hyporheic exchange; climate change; managed aquifer recharge; simulation analysis; solute transport; machine learning; remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Groundwater Environmental Risk Perception

edited by Jin Wu,

Jiao Li

and Quanwei Song

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1258 | 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)

Governance and Management of Major Water Projects: Strategies, Challenges, and Solutions

edited by

Jiyong Ding

Huimin Li

and Wujuan Zhai

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1204 | Submission Open

Keywords: major water project; complex project management/governance; decision-making governance; top-level governance; transaction governance; digital & intelligent construction; operation management; organizational behavior; sustainable development; international project management; innovation management; social responsibility; risk and resilience management; project financing

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

Data-Driven Intelligent Systems in Flood Forecasting and Early Warning Flood Systems

edited by

Kourosh Behzadian

and Farzad Piadeh

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 670 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine aritificial intelligence; data mining; early warning systems; flood risk assessment learning; real-time modelling; visualisation

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

Flood Risk Assessment on Reservoirs

edited by Gang Wang and

Huiliang Wang

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1845 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood forecasting; flood warning; comprehensive evaluation model; assessment index system; reservoirs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

New World: Advancing Water Applications Through Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Jianjun Ni

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 658 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; artificial intelligence; smart water; hydrological monitoring; flood forecasting; water quality as-sessment; remote sensing

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

Sustainable and Efficient Water Use in the Face of Climate Change

edited by