Water

Methods and Tools for Sustainable Agricultural Water Management

edited by Hui Yang, Manoj K. Shukla and

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8458 | 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)

Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Soil and Water Environment

edited by

Paula Alvarenga

and

Patrícia Palma

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6409 | Submission Open

Keywords: pharmaceuticals; nanomaterials; personal care products; hormones; flame retardants; plasticizers; per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs); microplastics; abiotic compartments

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

Application of Biotechnology in Water Treatment and Specific Treatments for Water Reuse

edited by

Sopheak Net

and Baghdad Ouddane

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4689 | Submission Open

Keywords: biotechnology; water treatment; secondary treatment; organic micropollutant; metallic trace element; activated sludge; biological treatment; nature-based solutions; constructed wetlands and biofiltration systems

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

Remote Sensing in Coastal Water Environment Monitoring

edited by

Peng Li

,

Fengqin Yan

and Xiuling Zuo

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2585 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal remote sensing; coastal change detection; coastal subsidence; coastal flooding; coastal geomorphology; coastal wetlands; tidal flats; coastal environmental vulnerability; coastal processes and landforms; hyperspectral remote sensing; radar remote sensing; machine learning; data fusion; climate change; human activities

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

Constructed Wetland Systems for Wastewater Treatment and Water Remediation

edited by Haiming Wu

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2430 | Submission Open

Keywords: constructed wetland; domestic and municipal wastewater; micro-polluted water; emerging pollutants; water reuse; global climate change; carbon sink function; biogeochemical processes; selection of plants and substrates; ecosystem services; microbial communities; operation and management

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

Application of Geospatial Information Systems and Technologies in Water Resources Management

edited by

Muhammad Tauhidur Rahman

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2359 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality monitoring; watershed management; urban water management; water resources management; geospatial information systems (GIS); remote sensing; climate change and water resources

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

Ecological Wastewater Treatment and Resource Utilization

edited by

Chunzhen Fan

and Jingke Song

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2009 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological wastewater treatment; resource utilization; plant restoration; microorganism transformation; adsorption

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

Application of Various Hydrological Modeling Techniques and Methods in River Basin Management, 2nd Edition

edited by Ankur Srivastava,

Venkataramana Sridhar

and

Nikul Kumari

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1690 | Submission Open

Keywords: freshwater; hydrological model; machine learning; streamflow; evapotranspiration; soil moisture; remote sensing; land use/land cover change; drought; flood; crop water requirement; irrigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Innovative Approaches in Flood Forecasting and Modeling for Risk Mitigation

edited by Daniela Gogoase Nistoran

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1448 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological and hydraulic models; data driven models; flood mapping; urban floods; climate change; remote sensing; flood forecasting; flood risk

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Aquatic Microplastic Pollution: Occurrence and Removal

edited by

Lixin Zhu

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 956 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastic pollution; environmental fate; removal technologies; wastewater treatment; biodegradation; risk assessment; mitigation strategies; plastic waste management; polymer degradation; policy and regulation

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

Water Quality Monitoring and Prediction Using New Sensors, Machine Learning and Big Data

edited by Yong Jie Wong

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 545 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality monitoring; prediction technologies; advanced sensors; machine learning; big data analytics; remote sensing; Internet of Things (IoT); environmental monitoring; water resource management

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

The Biogeochemical Behavior and Innovative Remediation of Contaminants

edited by Zhuozhi Ouyang and Yanjun Liu

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 539 | Submission Open

Keywords: pollutants; biogeochemical behavior; functional materials; remediation; risk assessment; ecosystems

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

Flood Risk Identification and Management, 2nd Edition

edited by Juan Chen

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 511 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood; flood management; flood control operation; risk identification; risk assessment; risk management; uncertainty

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Sustainable Water and Sanitation Governance: Aligning Policies, Institutions and Regulation

edited by

Francisco Silva Pinto

,

Rui Cunha Marques

and

Tiago Balieiro Cetrulo

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 141 | Submission Open

Keywords: SDG 6; water governance; PIR framework; enabling environment; policy implementation; institutional settings; water services regulation; sustainable water management

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

Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Modeling

edited by Xingyuan Chen

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater hydrology; flow and reactive transport; numerical modeling; machine learning; disturbance impacts; surface water and groundwater interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Microbial Technology Applied in Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Qian Lu

and Limin Yang

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 112 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater; microorganism; metabolism; biotechnology; biomass valorization; agriculture; aquaculture; industry

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

Flow Dynamics and Sediment Transport in Rivers and Coasts

edited by

Jueyi Sui

,

Wenxin Huai

and Jun Wang

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2031 | Submission Open

Keywords: eco-hydraulics; fluvial hydraulics; local scour; riverbed deformation; sediment transport; turbulence; wave dynamics

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

Advanced Adsorbent-Based Technologies for Efficient Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Yicheng Yang

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 582 | Submission Open

Keywords: adsorption-based technologies; adsorbents; wastewater treatment; nanomaterials; emerging contaminants; regeneration and reusability

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

Advances in Hydroinformatics and Geo/Statistics for Modelling and Risk Assessment of Water Systems

edited by

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,

and

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood modelling; river hydraulic; geometric uncertainty of flood models; water sustainability; advances in forest restoration; nature-based solutions; advanves on time series analysis; advances of geostatistics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Soil Erosion Measurement Techniques and Field Experiments, 2nd Edition

edited by

Vito Ferro

and

Alessio Nicosia

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8769 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; sediment yield; erosion plot; basin; interrill erosion; rill erosion; gully erosion

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

Novel Methods in Wastewater and Stormwater Treatment

edited by

Dorota Olejnik

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3108 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; stormwater harvesting; stormwater treatment processes; heavy metals; pollutants and contaminants; toxicity; sustainability; smart cities; constructed wetlands; managing urban stormwater; pollutant load

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

Water Modeling Using Combined Machine Learning and Fieldwork Investigation

edited by

Joonghyeok Heo

,

Huidae Cho

and Netra Regmi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1118 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; field survey; water modeling; big data analysis; geostatistic analysis; water quality and water quantity; environmental sustainability

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

Water Quality Engineering and Wastewater Treatment, 4th Edition

edited by

Yung-Tse Hung

,

Tsuyoshi Imai

,

Rehab O. Abdel Rahman

,

Issam A. Al-Khatib

and

Qaisar Mahmood

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 686 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced wastewater technology; onsite wastewater treatment; natural wastewater treatment system; biological treatment; physicochemical treatment; tertiary treatment; water quality; sludge treatment and disposal; energy-efficient wastewater treatment; water reuse; resource recovery; municipal wastewater; industrial wastewater; nutrient removal

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

Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) Research, 2nd Edition

edited by

Peng Du

and

Phong K. Thai

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 669 | Submission Open

Keywords: new biomarkers for WBE; new applications of WBE; early warning of infectious disease; monitoring substances of abuse; method uncertainties; health risk assessments

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

Constructed Wetlands: Enhancing Contaminant Removal and Remediation

edited by

Xiaojuan Feng

and

Shentan Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 661 | Submission Open

Keywords: removal of nutrients and refractory organic matter by constructed wetlands; development and application of novel wetland fillers or matrices; screening of aquatic plants for constructed wetlands; main problems and solutions of constructed wetland for wastewater treatment; integration of constructed wetlands and other water treatment technologies

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

Dynamic Response of Water and Soil Resources in the Context of Climate Change and Human Activities

edited by Yudong Lu, Huanhuan Li and Ce Zheng

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 475 | Submission Open

Keywords: water and soil resources security; water– soil interactions; climate change impacts on water and soil; anthropogenic stressors to water and soil; hydrological modeling; soil degradation; pollution remediation; sustainable agriculture; ecosystem resilience; land-use change

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

Electrochemical Approaches to Sustainable Water Treatment: Tackling Pollution and Advancing Resource Recovery

edited by

Ran Mao

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 363 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrochemical wastewater treatment; resource recovery; electrooxidation; electroreduction; heavy metal complexes; nitrate; phosphorus; electro-Fenton; PFAS; refractory organics; high salinity wastewater

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

Marine Waters for Health and Well-Being

edited by

Laurent Vandanjon

and Vincent Blanckaert

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 197 | Submission Open

Keywords: seawater; marine waters; deep seawater; marine colloids; algae; cosmetics; nutraceutics; pharmaceutics; thalassotherapy; marine biotechnology

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

Soil–Water Interaction and Management

edited by

Fu Chen

and Zhanbin Luo

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 138 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture; soil– water management; irrigation systems; drought conditions; climate change

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

Research on Isotope Investigations in Groundwater Studies

edited by

Paula M. Carreira

and

José Manuel Marques

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open

Keywords: isotope hydrology; groundwater recharge; water– rock interactions; stable and radiogenic isotopes; contaminant source tracking; groundwater age dating; climate change and groundwater; surface water– groundwater interac-tions; sustainable water management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Environmental Adaptability and Ecological Synergy in Offshore Renewable Energy Engineering

edited by Sheng Wu, Yanhui Wang and Chongyang Xu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 98 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine new energy engineering; offshore new energy engineering; environmental adaptability; marine ecological impacts; complex fluid dynamics; environmental monitoring

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

Pollution Mechanisms and Source Apportionment of Typical Pollutants in Aquatic Environments

edited by Qianqian Zhang

submission deadline 5 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1539 | Submission Open

Keywords: rivers; lakes; and groundwater; water quality; hydrochemistry; pollution sources; sources analysis; assessment methods; isotope technology; machine learning; multivariate statistical techniques; models

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

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

edited by Claudia Cherubini

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4228 | 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)

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 321 | 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)

Protection and Restoration of Lake and Water Reservoir

edited by Xiaoxiao Wang

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 75 | 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)

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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 823 | 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 | 6 articles | Viewed by 3126 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1154 | 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)

Revolutionizing Hydraulic Fracturing with Machine Learning and Data-Driven Approaches

edited by

Qinzhuo Liao

, Huiying Tang and Junchao Li

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 256 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulic fracturing; machine learning; data-driven; geomechanics; fluid flow; modeling and simulation; optimization

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

Saline Water Irrigation and the Impact of Salt Stresses on Plants

edited by

Ahmad Azeem

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 94 | 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 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10724 | 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 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9055 | 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)

Research on Microplastic Pollution in Water and Soil Environment

edited by

Kai Cai

and Taoze Liu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5544 | 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)

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

edited by

Navneet Kumar

and

Bernhard Tischbein

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4414 | 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)

Research on Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry: Challenges and Prospects

edited by

Josip Terzić

and

Staša Borović

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4095 | Submission Open

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

(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 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4001 | 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)

Research Status of Operation and Management of Hydropower Station

edited by Dong Liu and Yanhe Xu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3485 | 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)

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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3158 | 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)

Geochemistry and Removal of Heavy Metals and Other Pollutants in Water

edited by

Qiusheng Yuan

and

Xun Wang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2655 | 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)

Application of Numerical Modeling in Estuarine and Coastal Dynamics

edited by Hongyi Zhao,

Xiaoli Liu

and

Jianfeng Zhu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2067 | 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)

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