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Advances in Plateau Lake Water Quality and Eutrophication

edited by Zhenghui Fu and

Zheng Li

submission deadline 10 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 425 | Submission Open

Keywords: simulation of watershed water environmental processes; environmental planning and management; eutrophication risk assessment and management; algal bloom warning and emergency response; multi-scale environmental risk zoning

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

Water Resources Allocation, Planning, and Regulation for Sustainable Management

edited by Carina Almeida

submission deadline 10 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources management; water allocation; planning and regulation; climate change adaptation; integrated approaches; water governance; sustainability

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

Water Resources, Economic Development and Environment Carrying Capacity

edited by

Yang Kong

, Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu and

Lina Zhang

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6536 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource management; environmental assessment; carrying capacity; industry development; economic growth

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

Artificial Intelligence in Water Science: Opportunities, Prospects, and Concerns

edited by

Jinfeng Wang

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5241 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; emerging contaminant; wastewater treatment; groundwater; surface water

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

Long-Term Coastal Evolution and Morphodynamics: Ecosystem Protection and Coastal Safety

edited by Fu Wang, Fengling Yu, Yan Li and Xiaohe Lai

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 4032 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal evolution; transgression; Holocene sea-level change; coastal wetland; shoreline change; ecosystem protection; coastal safety

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

Research on River Environmental Flows and Habitat Restoration

edited by

Xuan Ban

Wenxian Guo

and Yicheng Fu

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1766 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental flows; riverine habitat restoration; ecosystem integrity; water resource planning; ecological flow management

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

Agricultural Water and Land Resources Planning and Management: Challenges and Endeavors

edited by

Qingling Geng

, Zhihui Tian and Lijie Shi

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1577 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; land resources; agricultural water use; water and land resource matching; agricultural water and land resource management; optimal allocation; climate change; sustainable management; resource carrying capacity

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

Remote Sensing of Spatial-Temporal Variation in Surface Water

edited by

Zheng Lu

Xiang Li

and Yongkai An

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1516 | Submission Open

Keywords: surface water; remote sensing; spatial-temporal dynamics; water cycle; data fusion; uncertainty

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Application of Microbial Technology in Wastewater Treatment

edited by Xiwei He and Depeng Wang

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1010 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbial technology; wastewater treatment; high-risk pollutants; carbon neutrality

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

Stormwater Management in Sponge Cities

edited by

Cristina Matos

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 13897 | Submission Open

Keywords: NbS; rainwater and stormwater management; stormwater quality; runoff reduction

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

The Application of Novel Biotechnologies for Removal of Emerging Contaminants

edited by

Paulina Rusanowska

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7318 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastic; antibiotics; heavily polluted wastewater; microorganisms communities; membranes

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

Hydraulic Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Digital Twin Technology

edited by Chenfei Shao, Hao Gu,

Yanxin Xu

Xiangnan Qin

, Yating Hu and

Huixiang Chen

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7248 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; digital twin technology; safety monitoring; hydraulic engineering; safety monitoring data preprocessing

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

Advanced Adsorption Technology for Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Daniela Fighir

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6717 | Submission Open

Keywords: adsorption; innovative materials; emerging pollutants; wastewater treatment; water treatment

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

Advancement of Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Water Reuse

edited by

Jiangyong Hu

Say-Leong Ong

, Yu-Jung Liu and

Wenjun Sun

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5927 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation process; organics removal; transformation products; toxicity evaluation; pre- and post-process; water and wastewater treatment; water reuse; cost-effectiveness analysis; policy and management

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

Advanced Oxidation and Photocatalytic Approaches for Efficient Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Water Treatment

edited by Liping Wang and Changyu Lu

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5155 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation process; photocatalytic semiconductors; organic pollutants; water treatment

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

Microplastics in Water Environments: Sources, Transport and Degradation

edited by

Sabina Ziembowicz

and

Małgorzata Kida

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4452 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics pollution in water environments; point and nonpoint sources of microplastics; environmental distribution; fate; and transport of microplastics; definition of microplastics and international regulations; health effects of microplastic exposures; transformation of microplastics in the aquatic environment; abiotic and biotic aging of microplastics; methods for the analysis of microplastics in the water environment; technologies for removal of microplastics; scientific perspective on microplastics in nature and society

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

Advancing Applications in Hydrogeochemical Processes in Groundwater Systems

edited by

Jason Polk

and Nenad Marić

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4410 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater systems; hydrogeochemical processes; hydrochemistry; isotopic and geochemical tracing; emerging contaminants and water quality concerns; karst hydrology; predictive modeling; water resource management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Constructed Wetlands and Emerging Pollutants

edited by

Yaqian Zhao

, Cheng Shen and Ting Wei

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4320 | Submission Open

Keywords: constructed wetlands; emerging pollutants; wastewater treatment

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

Water Pollutants and Human Health: Challenges and Perspectives

edited by Simon Jackson and

João Brandão

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3549 | Submission Open

Keywords: biomarkers; endotoxin; fungal contaminants; AMR genes; antimicrobials; microplastics; emerging pathogens

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

Membrane Separation and Water Treatment: Modeling and Application

edited by Xianghao Ren, Linan Xing and Jooil Park

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3341 | Submission Open

Keywords: water and wastewater treatment and reuse; membrane technologies; activated carbon; adsorption; chemical filtration; gas separation; energy storage and utilization

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

Sustainable Development of Water, Energy and Environment Systems (SDEWES 2024)

edited by

Susana P. Boeykens

Oz Sahin

, José María Ponce-Ortega,

Maria Vicidomini

and

Md Mortula

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2616 | Submission Open

Keywords: water management; sustainability comparisons and measurements; green economy and better governance; climate resilient water systems; environmental policy and management; transformative water governance; water and wastewater treatment; water– energy nexus; energy and water efficiency; water demand management; water systems in rural; regional; and island communities

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

Soil Water Balance and Management: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

edited by Pei Tian,

Hai Xiao

and

Wenzhao Guo

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2474 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; soil water management; soil and water conservation; water erosion processes; water and soil pollution control; non-point source pollution control; integrated water management; erosion modeling

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

Intelligent Analysis, Monitoring and Assessment of Debris Flow

edited by Weijie Zhang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2245 | Submission Open

Keywords: debris flow; water– soil coupling; artificial intelligence; numerical analysis; monitoring; risk evaluation; mitigation measure

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

Recent Advances in Photocatalysis in Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Monica Brienza

and

Laura Scrano

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2011 | Submission Open

Keywords: photocatalysis; wastewater reuse; decentralized treatment; low-cost water treatment; AOPs; adsorption; water scarcity; agricultural irrigation; process optimization; sustainable water management

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

Water-Induced Geo-Disaster Reduction in the Context of Climate Change: Hydrology, Management Strategies, and Ecological Geological Engineering

edited by

Chang Zhou

and

Massimiliano Bordoni

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1722 | Submission Open

Keywords: water-induced geo-disaster; water burst; hydrological cycle processes; soil and water conservation; monitoring systems; numerical simulation; ecological restoration; resilience strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Advances in Research on Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soil and Water

edited by

Lin Guo

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1649 | Submission Open

Keywords: phytoremediation; soil; water; labortory studies; field applications

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

Biodegradation Strategies for Sustainable Removal of Persistent Pollutants and Xenobiotics in Wastewater Treatment

edited by Mohd Faheem Khan

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1156 | Submission Open

Keywords: xenobiotics; emerging pollutants; PFAS; toxic heavy metals; biodegradation; biotransformation; catalysis; clean-up enzymes and their engineering and immobilization; biofilms; wastewater treatment

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

Advances and Innovations in Technologies for Treatment and Toxicity Assessment of Conventional and Emerging Contaminant in Industrial Wastewater

edited by

Yongkui Yang

and

Yingxin Zhao

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1089 | Submission Open

Keywords: industrial wastewater treatment; wastewater reuse; conventional and emerging contaminants; toxicity and risk assessment; AI; intelligent control; LCA

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

Extreme Hydrological Events Under Climate Change

edited by

Diana Šarauskienė

and

Darius Jakimavičius

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1018 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; extreme hydrological phenomena; floods; droughts; hydrological variability; river runoff; hydrological cycle; water resources; mitigation strategies

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

Modelling, Monitoring and Assessment of Soil Hydrology and Ecological Processes

edited by

Lei Han

and Ming Zhao

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 843 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing; spatial analysis and modeling; soil moisture; vegetation ecology; multiple scale; climate change; land use

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

Numerical and Experimental Methods, Data Analyses, Digital Twin, IoT Machine Learning and AI in Water Sciences

edited by

Junye Wang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 821 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; water quality; biodiversity; modelling; simulation; integration; monitoring; data analyses; digital twin; IoT machine learning and AI

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

Advanced Chemical and Biological Technologies for Water Purification and Contaminant Degradation

edited by Zhanghao Chen and Longgang Chu

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 821 | 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)

Coastal Flood Hazard Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies

edited by

Quan Van Dau

and

Xander Wang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 786 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; water security; hydrological modeling; coastal erosion; climate adaptation; compound flooding; sea level rise; extreme weather event

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

Membrane Technologies for Biofouling Prevention in Water: Theory, Methods and Applications

edited by

Mònica Reig

and Guillem Gilabert-Oriol

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 268 | Submission Open

Keywords: biofouling; fouling; organic fouling; reverse osmosis; membranes; nanofiltration; desalination; water treatment; wastewater; brackish water; seawater; bacteria; biofilms

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

Contaminants in Aquatic Systems: Biogeochemical Processes, Ecological Impacts

edited by

Zhenjie Zhao

, Zengping Ning and

Chen Ling

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

Keywords: aquatic ecosystems; heavy metals; PFAS; POPs; emerging pollutants; ecological risk assessment; water quality; redox processes

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

Application of Smart Technologies in Integrated Water Quality Modeling, 2nd Edition

edited by Tianxiang Wang and

Haiyan Zhang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 169 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental model; assessment method; statistic model; mechanism model; regional indicators; machine learning; water resource

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

Microplastics and Microfiber Pollution in Aquatic Environments

edited by Adriano Fiorucci and

Valentina Balestra

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 168 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics; microfibres; water pollution; water quality; waste water; water ecosystems

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

Urban Water Management: Challenges and Prospects, 2nd Edition

edited by

Nelson Carriço

and Maria do Céu Almeida

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 164 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban water infrastructure; sustainable water management; urban drainage systems; resilient water systems; climate change adaptation; green infrastructure; smart water technologies; urban water governance; circular water economy

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

Precision Irrigation Management and Soil Moisture Optimization in Agroecosystems

edited by

Nawab Ali

and

Younsuk Dong

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision irrigation; water use effeciency; irrigation effeciency; sensing technologies; smart irrigation; variable rate irrigation; irrigation schedulling; deficit irrigation; evapotranspiration; soil-plant-water relation; IoT in irrigation; decision tools; simulation modelling

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

Advances in Research on Hydrology and Water Resources

edited by

Md Jahangir Alam

Monzur Imteaz

and

Faisal Anwar

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 116 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrology; water resources; extreme climate; climate change; drought and floods; AI and machine learning in water management; low-flow simulation; enviromental pollution; cultural flows; river basin

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Advanced Oxidation Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Qiao Wang

, Huarui Li and Jialin Jia

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation technologies; water treatment; pollutant removal; catalyst design; oxidation mechanisms

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

Biochar’s Role in Water-Stable Soils and Remediation

edited by

Mohammad Ghorbani

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open

Keywords: biochar; soil hydraulic properties; water retention; infiltration; soil– water interactions; soil amendment; soil water holding capacity; hydrological modeling; climate resilience; sustainable land management

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

Rural Wastewater Treatment by Nature-Based Solutions

edited by

Rui Zhang

and

Xuetong Yang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural wastewater treatment; water reuse; nature-based solutions; life cycle assessment; techno-economic analysis; resource recovery; sustainability

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

Bridge Hydraulics: Current State of the Knowledge and Perspectives, 2nd Edition

edited by

Giuseppe Oliveto

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 98 | Submission Open

Keywords: bridge hydraulics; bridge scour; bridge embankment breaching; bridge scour countermeasures; bridge monitoring techniques; fluvial hydraulics; sediment transport

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

Drought Risk Assessment and Human Vulnerability in the 21st Century, 2nd Edition

edited by

João Filipe Santos

and

Miguel Potes

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open

Keywords: drought risk assessment; climate change; human and environmental vulnerability; resilience building; IPCC scenarios

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

Innovative Technologies for Comprehensive Management of Urban Water Pollution

edited by Yang Li

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban water pollution; advanced wastewater treatment; monitoring systems; stormwater management; wetlands; resource recovery; emerging contaminants; decentralized systems; smart water governance

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

Ecological Influence Assessment on the Occurrence and Control of Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms in Aquatic Habitats

edited by

Jieming Li

and

Peng Xiao

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open

Keywords: harmful cyanobacterial bloom; occurrence; control; cyanotoxin; ecological consequence; biogeochemical process

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

Low-Carbon Technologies and Digital Solutions for Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Tao Zhang

and Alice Boarino

submission deadline 21 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3777 | Submission Open

Keywords: low-carbon technologies; machine learning; artificial intelligence; wastewater treatment; circular economy; biomass; organic waste; nutrient recovery

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

Ship and Ocean Engineering

edited by

Yu Hu

and

Liang Sun

submission deadline 23 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2746 | Submission Open

Keywords: fixed and floating offshore wind turbines; cables and mooring; wave loads; wind loads

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

Aquaculture Productivity and Environmental Sustainability

edited by Changwei Li,

Wenchang Liu

and Gang Liu

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7635 | Submission Open

Keywords: recirculating aquaculture systems; aquaculture engineering; wastewater treatment; environmental sustainability; precise farming management; smart aquaculture

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

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