Water

Hydrogeological and Hydrochemical Investigations of Aquifer Systems

edited by

Lahcen Zouhri

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4850 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrogeophysical exploration; groundwater; hydrogeological modelling; aquifer; hydrochemical modelling

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

Hydrogeochemical Characterization and Flow System of Groundwater in Volcanic Aquifers

edited by

Alemu Yenehun

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1113 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater flow; hydrogeochemistry; groundwater recharge; surface– groundwater interaction; water balance; aquifer recharge

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Risk Characterization, Assessment, and Management of Water for Environmental/Human Health—2nd Edition

edited by

Cheng Yan

and

Annalaura Carducci

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 749 | Submission Open

Keywords: water and human development; water pollution; risk assessment; environmental health risks; human health risks; hazard identification; dose– response assessment; exposure assessment; risk characterization

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

Optimization and Decision Support for Water Systems: From Network Models to Operational Strategies

edited by

Sérgio Lousada

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 560 | Submission Open

Keywords: water systems optimization; decision support systems; water distribution networks; pump and valve scheduling; leakage detection and pressure management; multi-objective optimization; stochastic and robust optimization; real-time monitoring and control; asset management and rehabilitation planning; digital twins for water infrastructure

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

Policy Innovation and Integrated Governance for Sustainable Urban Water Management

edited by

Ziheng Shangguan

, Eleni Zafeiriou and

Mohd Yawar Ali Khan

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8237 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban water resource management; policy innovation; integrated governance; institutional design; water use efficiency; digital water governance; nature-based solutions

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

Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in Ocean Engineering—Second Edition

edited by

Zhipeng Zang

and

Ming Zhao

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4686 | Submission Open

Keywords: waves and tidal current; internal waves; submarine pipeline/cables; flow/wave– structure interactions; local scour/seabed evolution; renewable energy

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

Advances in Hydraulic and Water Resources Research, 4th Edition

edited by

Majid Mohammadian

,

Xiaohui Yan

and

Hossein Kheirkhah Gildeh

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 826 | Submission Open

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

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

Advancements in Anaerobic Digestion and Sustainable Sludge Management

edited by

Weixin Zhao

, Lili Li and Rupeng Wang

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: anaerobic digestion; sewage sludge management; resource recovery; waste-to-energy; methane production; cir-cular economy; sludge pretreatment; biosolids

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

Hydro-Meteorological Event Analysis and Flood Prediction

edited by Li Liu and Haiting Gu

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 152 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatio-temporal analysis; flood forecasting; causal analysis; physics-based hydrological modeling; deep learning

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

Soil Erosion and Sedimentation by Water

edited by

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submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11310 | 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)

Water: Economic, Social and Environmental Analysis

edited by

Joaquín Melgarejo Moreno

and

Borja Montaño Sanz

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9189 | Submission Open

Keywords: water management; economic analysis; social equity; environmental sustainability; integrated approaches

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

Advanced Treatment Technologies for Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater

edited by

Xiayuan Wu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6996 | 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)

Recent Advances in Offshore Hydrodynamics

edited by

Chongwei Zhang

and Xuanlie Zhao

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5943 | 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 Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture: Practices, Ecosystems, and Socio-Economic Perspectives

edited by Tomasz Kajetan Czarkowski and

Krzysztof Kupren

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5326 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable fisheries and aquaculture; sustainable fisheries and aquaculture management; ecosystem impacts of fisheries; impacts of climate change; socio-economic dimension in sustainable fisheries and aquaculture

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

Contaminant Transport, Risk Assessment, and Ecological Impacts in Karst

edited by

Wei Liu

,

Wei Chen

and Matej Blatnik

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5050 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater and surface contamination; hydrological processes; contaminant transport; environmental risk evaluation; ecological impacts; karst systems

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

New Technologies to Ensure Safe Drinking Water

edited by Yizhen Cheng,

Bin Liu

and Pengwei Yan

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4478 | Submission Open

Keywords: water treatment; oxidation technology; coagulation; fouling behavior; environmental microbiology technology

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

Sustainable and Efficient Water Use in the Face of Climate Change

edited by

Yaosheng Wang

and

Haiyang Ma

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3991 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate resilience; precision irrigation; crop physiology; water use efficiency; root– soil dynamics

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

The Interrelationship Between Climate Change, Human Activities and Hydrological Processes, 4th Edition

edited by

Qianfeng Wang

,

Haijun Deng

and

Jinshi Jian

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3013 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; hydrological processes; water resources; vegetation; soil; rock; drought; heatwaves; mutual effects

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

Advances in Open-Channel Flow Hydrodynamics

edited by

Yeo Howe Lim

,

Reza Barati

and

Vida Atashi

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1752 | Submission Open

Keywords: open‐channel flow; hydrodynamic structures; turbulence modeling; sediment scouring; flow– structure interaction; experimental and numerical modeling; ecohydraulics; remote sensing; data‐driven hydrodynamics

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

Assessment and Management of Soil Salinity: Methods and Technologies

edited by

George Kargas

and

Paraskevi Londra

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1579 | Submission Open

Keywords: salt accumulation and soil salinity assessment; methods of soil salinity determination; spatial and temporal distribution of salinity; irrigation with saline water; salinity control and salt leaching; drainage systems; effect of salts on hydraulic conductivity; mapping of soil salinity; remote sensing and soil salinity; geophysical instruments in soil salinity mapping; digital soil maps (DSMs) of ECe with machine learning (ML) technology; intelligent irrigation and leaching technology

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

Nature-Based Soil and Water Conservation for Climate-Resilient Agriculture

edited by

Michel Riksen

,

Coen J. Ritsema

and

Karrar Mahdi

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1464 | Submission Open

Keywords: nature-based soil and water conservation (NB-SWC); climate-smart agriculture (CSA); arid and semi-arid regions; planning and design of NB-SWC; NB-SWC suitability; water scarcity; water conservation; water economics; adoption of NB-SWC

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

The Application of Adsorption Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

edited by Martin J. Taylor and

Amthal Al-Gailani

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1385 | Submission Open

Keywords: adsorption; wastewater treatment; heavy metal removal; organic pollutant adsorption; low-cost adsorbents; fixed-bed systems; regeneration; adsorption modelling; life cycle assessment (LCA); environmental sustainability

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

Emerging and Legacy Contaminants in Soil and Water Systems: Pathways, Monitoring, Characterization, and Treatment

edited by Jinsheng Huang,

Yuchuan Fan

and

Xi Zhang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1303 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; legacy contaminants; fate and transport; point and non-point sources; non-target screening; wastewater treatment; sorption; photocatalysis; nanomaterials; constructed wetlands; GIS; remote sensing; real-time monitoring

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

Water and Waste Management Strategies and Environmentally Sustainable Approaches

edited by

Premakumara Jagath Dickella Gamaralalage

and

Chen Liu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1060 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated water and waste management; environmental sustainability; circular economy; urban environmental systems; nature-based solutions; community-based resource management; environmental policy and governance; smart technologies in resource management; artificial intelligence (AI); systems thinking; sustainable development goals (SDGs); resource efficiency; environmental engineering; sustainability science

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

Advances in Sustainable Water Resources Management and Water–Energy Nexus

edited by

Ya'nan Jiang

,

Xiongpeng Tang

, Chongxu Zhao and He Li

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 598 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– energy nexus; sustainable development; nexus modeling; resources management; sustainable and resilient solu-tions; many objective optimization; simulation and optimization of water– energy nexus

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

Distribution and Toxicity of Emerging Contaminants in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Sheng Liu

and

Kun Li

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 579 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging contaminants; aquatic ecosystems; environmental behaviors; ecotoxicity; risk assessment; remediation technologies; analytical methods

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

Advanced Hydrological Modeling for Extreme Events: Floods, Droughts, and Risk Assessment

edited by Muhammad Usman Liaqat and Stefania Camici

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 560 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modeling; extreme events; flood simulation; drought prediction; rainfall– runoff models; non-stationarity; climate adaptation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Advancing Water Resource Management with Smart Technologies

edited by

Sohaib Mustafa

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 454 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart water management; internet of things (IoT); artificial intelligence; machine learning; real-time monitoring; predictive analytics; water resource optimization; sustainable water systems; smart sensors; flood forecasting

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

Advances in Sediment Dynamics: Mechanisms, Modeling and Management in Transitional Environments

edited by

Maria Rita Maggi

,

Cosimo Peruzzi

,

Giuseppe Francesco Cesare Lama

and Marina Amadori

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 350 | Submission Open

Keywords: sediment dynamics; transitional environments; hydrodynamics and morphodynamics; sediment transport modeling; field measurements; laboratory experiments; innovative monitoring techniques

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

Coastal Ecology and Fisheries Management, 2nd Edition

edited by

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submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 347 | Submission Open

Keywords: estuaries ecology and management; wetlands protection and management; mangroves restoration and construction; fishery resource assessment; coastal fishery management; fishery management policy; coral ecology and protection; ecosystem services; coastal culture and aquaculture; marine farming and construction

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

Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Tools and Strategies for Resilient Growth

edited by

G.-Fivos Sargentis

,

Theano Iliopoulou

and

Levon Gevorkov

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 343 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– energy– food nexus; resource resilience; self-sufficiency; water reuse; wastewater reuse; renewable energy; circular economy; local food systems; resource recovery; historical examples of water-energy and food management

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

Integrated Approaches to Climate-Driven Hydrological Modeling and Water Resources Management

edited by

Massoud Behboudian

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 298 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate– hydrology interactions; water resources management; hydrological modeling; extreme events; adaptive governance; remote sensing in hydrology; sustainable water systems; machine learning applications; watershed resilience; socio-hydrological systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Urban Hydrological Resilience: Innovations in Hazard Mitigation and Management

edited by

Weiwei Shao

and Xin Su

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 289 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban hydrological resilience; hazard mitigation and management; flood and drought risk; nature-based solutions; smart and digital water systems; climate change adaptation; integrated water resources management; resilient urban infrastructure

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

Solid Waste Management and Its Impacts on Groundwater Quality

edited by

Javier Rodrigo-Ilarri

and

María-Elena Rodrigo-Clavero

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 288 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid waste management; groundwater contamination; leachate migration; numerical modeling; pollution mitigation techniques

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

Emerging Pollutants in Aquatic Environments: Detection, Risks, and Management

edited by

Anna Gronba-Chyła

and Paweł Kwaśnicki

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 256 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging pollutants; water quality; wastewater treatment; aquatic contaminants; environmental monitoring; circular economy

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

Photocatalytic Systems for Advanced Water Purification

edited by

Prisco Prete

and

Laura Clarizia

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 238 | Submission Open

Keywords: photocatalysis; contaminants of emerging concern; advanced oxidation processes; solar radiation; wastewater treatment; LCA

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

Machine Learning Applications for Surface and Ground Water Resources Management

edited by

A T M Sakiur Rahman

,

Saddam Hussain

,

Muhammad Naveed Anjum

and

Mohammod Ali

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 224 | Submission Open

Keywords: e-water; decision support system; ML for water modeling; water recharge; water balance; water accouting; precision irrigation; transforming water management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Scarcity)

Aquaponics Systems: Present and Future Challenges

edited by

Nikolaos Vlahos

and

Panagiotis Berillis

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 219 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquaponic system; ammonia mass balance; fish-plant growth performance; innovation; nutrient absorption; current and future challenges; cycle economy; foodprint; natural resource management; multitrophic aquaponic system

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

Coastal Sediment Dynamics: Monitoring and Modeling for Resilient Shoreline Management

edited by Douglas A George

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal sediment dynamics; shoreline management; morphodynamic modeling; coastal resilience; remote sensing; sediment transport; adaptive management

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

Emerging Organic Micropollutants in Aquatic Environments: Advanced Analytical Methods and Environmental Protection

edited by

Marta Oliveira Barbosa

and

Ana Rita Lado Ribeiro

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging organic micropollutants; aquatic environments; high-resolution mass spectrometry; non-target screening; water quality monitoring; environmental risk assessment; analytical methods; environmental protection

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

Advances in Constructed Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration

edited by Xinyue Zhao,

Ning Hou

and

Lixin Li

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 197 | Submission Open

Keywords: constructed wetlands; microbial community; wastewater treatment; biogeochemical cycle; environmental sustainability

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

Computer Vision-Based Monitoring of Aquatic Ecosystems Across Marine and Freshwater Environments

edited by

Fan Zhao

and Jiaqi Wang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer vision; aquatic ecosystem monitoring; underwater imagery; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); object detection and image segmentation; deep learning; multi-platform remote sensing; biodiversity and ecological assessment; sustainable water management

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

Sustainable Management of Water Distribution Networks

edited by

Hyuk Jae Kwon

and

Do Guen Yoo

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open

Keywords: leakage; water supply system; residual life; pipe aging; water quality; corrosion; smart maintenance; smart system design

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

Management and Assessment of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems Under Climate Change

edited by Giovanna Grossi and

Matteo Balistrocchi

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 179 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban drainage; climate non-stationarity; structural flood risk mitigation measures; non-structural flood risk mitigation measures; field and laboratory experiments; hydrologic– hydraulic modeling; stochastic modeling; long-term performance assessment; resilience assessment; uncertainty analysis

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

Biogeochemical Cycle of Organic Matter in Lakes and Its Environmental Effects

edited by Shasha Liu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 170 | Submission Open

Keywords: organic matter; water quality; aquatic environments; biogeochemical processes; environmental effects

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

Advances in Recording Environmental Changes in Lake Sediment Archives

edited by Chenglin Liu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open

Keywords: depositional environment; hydrological changes; lake water salination; lake water desalination; natural carbon sequestration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Application of Remote Sensing in Inland and Coastal Water Monitoring

edited by

Ting On Chan

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; inland waters; coastal monitoring; water quality; coastal wetlands; machine learning

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

Disaster Analysis and Prevention of Dam and Slope Engineering

edited by

Yuke Wang

and Xiang Yu

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6891 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulic structure; geotechnical engineering; safety evaluation; numerical simulation; fine analysis; dynamic response; soft foundation; mechanical characteristics; damage behavior; treatment measure

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

Urban Water Pollution Control: Theory and Technology, 2nd Edition

edited by

Bingdang Wu

, Yonghai Gan and Jingjing Yang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3492 | Submission Open

Keywords: micropollutants; urban water; remediation; low-impact development; sponge city; constructed wetland

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

Fate and Transport of Contaminants in Soil and Water

edited by

Changyin Zhu

,

Da Ouyang

and

Hui Wang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3341 | 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)

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