Water

Insights on the Water–Energy–Food Nexus and Sustainable Development

edited by

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1606 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental sustainability; food production; water management; energy security; machine learning; waste management; remote sensing analysis

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

Solid-Liquid Separation Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

edited by Wenjun Zhang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid– liquid separation technology; wastewater treatment; mineral processing wastewater; flocculation and sedi-mentation; technological innovation

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

Effects of Groundwater and Surface Water on the Natural Geo-Hazards, 2nd Edition

edited by Xudong Zhang,

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,

and

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9935 | Submission Open

Keywords: water modeling; soil– water interaction; rock– water interaction; geo-hazards; water-induced problems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Water Quality Examination: The Investigation of Heavy Metal Contamination, Nutrients, and Organic Pollutants in Aquatic Environments for an Enhanced Prevention and Purification Process

edited by

Thomas Dippong

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9400 | Submission Open

Keywords: water pollution; contamination of groundwater; aquatic ecosystems; monitoring of water resources; management for sustainability; removal of heavy metals; eutrophication; bioremediation; chemical or biological technologies; aquatic environments; risk assessment; phytoremediation of water; microplastics in water; nutrients in water; heavy metal in water; organic pollutants in water; bacterial contamination of water

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

Recent Advances in Flood Risk Assessment and Management

edited by Xiaolei Zhang and Xiao Liu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5311 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood risk assessment; hydraulic and hydrological modeling; climate change and flood frequency; flood risk mapping; flood protection infrastructure; early warning systems; socioeconomic impacts of flooding; community-based flood management; flood resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Slope Stability Analyses and Landslide Risk Assessment Under Hydrodynamic Action

edited by

Zheng-Yi Feng

,

Cheng-Yu Ku

and

Frank Tsai

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5230 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide; debris flow; river bank erosion and protection; slope stability; landslide risk assessment; groundwater seepage; landslide mitigation; water erosion; sediment transport

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

Evaluation of Microbiological Indicators for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

edited by

Anna Lenart-Boroń

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4849 | Submission Open

Keywords: antibiotic resistance; bacteria; drinking water; fungi; health risks; irrigation; microbiological contamination; protozoa; treatment plants; viruses; wastewater treatment; water pollution; water reuse

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

Global Water Risks Across Shared River Corridors in Transboundary Basins

edited by

Shahbaz Khan

,

Arfan Arshad

,

Fazlullah Akhtar

and Zaichen Xiang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4613 | Submission Open

Keywords: transboundary river basins; water governance; capacity development; remote sensing; ML/AI tools; water quality and quantity; land-water dynamics; flood and droughts; land cover changes; outlook at shared aquifers

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

The Safety Operations and Intelligent Control of Water Network Engineering Systems

edited by

Yantao Zhu

,

Rui Pang

and

Binghan Xue

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4607 | Submission Open

Keywords: water network safety; intelligent control systems; risk assessment; IoT and AI integration; infrastructure reliability

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

Microplastics Pollution in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Xueqiang Lu

and Chengtao Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4522 | Submission Open

Keywords: microplastics; ecotoxicology; aquatic systems; detection; mitigation strategies

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

Water Footprint and Energy Sustainability

edited by

Winnie Gerbens-Leenes

and

S.D. Vaca Jimenez

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3769 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– energy nexus; energy sustainability; water resources management; water footprint assessment; sustainable electricity production; water; land and carbon footprint trade-offs

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

Slope Stability Analyses and Risk Assessment for Rainfall-Induced Landslides

edited by

Qihang Li

,

Xiaoshuang Li

and Jiang Song

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3532 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslides; rainfall infiltration; slope stability; physical model experiment; numerical modelling; machine learning; advanced algorithms; failure mechanism; mitigation measures; monitoring and early warning

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

Global Perspective on Hydrology and Water Resources Management in Complex Urban Areas

edited by Jingyuan Xue, Liuyue He and

Fan Zhang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3439 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources management; climate change resilience; water quality control; integrated water resource planning; non-point source pollution; flood risk assessment and mitigation; drought risk assessment and mitigation; urban– rural transitional areas; coastal regoins

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Applications of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Xuetong Yang

, Rui Zhang and Yang Hu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3123 | Submission Open

Keywords: persistent (micro)pollutants; PFAS; wastewater treatment; ozonation; environmental sustainability; water quality; life cycle assessment

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

Application of Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Water and Wastewater Purification

edited by

Yi Ren

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3023 | Submission Open

Keywords: water purification; wastewater treatment; water restoration; emerging contaminants; advanced oxidation processes; Fenton-like oxidation; photocatalysis; electrocatalysis; ozonation; non-thermal plasma; electron beam

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

Advanced Numerical Approaches for Multiphase and Cavitating Flows

edited by Linmin Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2794 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiphase flow; cavitation; numerical simulation; Eulerian– Lagrangian approach; computational fluid dynamics

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

Impacts of Climate Change & Human Activities on Wetland Ecosystems

edited by Zhongqing Yan, Guopeng Liang, Yingxin Shang and Xueping Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2313 | Submission Open

Keywords: wetland ecosystems; ecosystem services and functions; protection and restoration; climate change and human activities; wetland hydrological processes; greenhouse gas (GHGs) fluxes; nutrient cycle and energy flow; water environment quality

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

Research on Water Supply Systems and on the Treatment and Recovery of Wastewater and Stormwater

edited by

António Manuel Abreu Freire Diogo

,

Enedir Ghisi

and

Célia dos Anjos Alves

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2035 | Submission Open

Keywords: water supply systems; water resources management; non-conventional water sources; water supply networks; urban water infrastructures planning; design and rehabilitation; water quality; water treatment; public health; wastewater treatment and reuse; stromwater harvesting; environemtal sustainability

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

Marine Biodiversity and Its Relationship with Climate/Environment

edited by

Francesco Rendina

and Valentina Perricone

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1532 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine biodiversity; marine ecosystems; climate change; ocean acidification; global warming; species adaptation; habitat shift; ecosystem services; environmental impacts; marine conservation; sustainable management

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

Study on Environmental Hydrology and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Basins, Estuaries and Offshore

edited by

Biyun Guo

and

Chunyan Li

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1364 | Submission Open

Keywords: water environment; coastal estuary; hydrodynamic; mathematical model

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

Advanced Remote Sensing for Coastal System Monitoring and Management

edited by

Chunpeng Chen

,

Ce Zhang

and

Wenting Wu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1104 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal zones; remote sensing; coastal sustainable management; deep learning

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

Sustainable Water Management in Agricultural Irrigation

edited by Dat Q Tran

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 999 | Submission Open

Keywords: irrigated agriculture; cropping patterns; irrigation technologies; managed aquifer recharge (MAR); re-claimed/treated water; water– energy– food nexus; transboundary conflict and cooperation; water institutions

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

Studies on Toxic Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems

edited by Zongming Ren and

Chunlei Xia

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 690 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic toxicology; online monitoring technology; individual responses; toxic effects; water pollution; biodiversity; ecosystems

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

Advanced Design and Synthesis of Novel Photocatalyst Materials for Wastewater Remediation

edited by

Farzaneh Mahmoudi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 630 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanomaterials; composite material; photocatalyst; organic pollutants; wastewater treatment

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

Perspectives on Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Technologies

edited by Yuan Yan and Han Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 364 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater sustainability resource recovery system optimization biosolids and biogas management techno-economic analysis (TEA) life cycle assessment nitrogen removal integrated wastewater treatment systems

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

Intelligent Water Networks: Advanced Sensing, Real-Time Analytics, and Adaptive Management for Future Water Challenges

edited by

Sohail Iqbal

and

Manousos Valyrakis

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 272 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent water systems; advanced sensors; real-time analytics; machine learning; digital twins; edge computing; adaptive management; IoT; water quality monitoring; predictive modeling

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

Advances in Metal Removal and Recovery from Water

edited by

Xiande Xie

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 247 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; water treatment; metal pollution removal; metal recovery; absorption; heavy metal

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

Advances in Monitoring of Hydrological and Ecological Processes Under Climate Change

edited by

Haibo Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 233 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological monitoring; ecological processes; climate change impacts; evapotranspiration modeling; data fusion; water use efficiency

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

Machine Learning Models for Flood Hazard Assessment

edited by

Álvaro Sordo-Ward

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 221 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; artificial intelligent; flood hazard; flood forecasting; flood warning; flood risk; models; real time; monitoring systems; climate change; new sensors; mitigation strategies

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

Rainfall Variability, Drought, and Land Degradation

edited by

Moncef Bouaziz

and

Harris Vangelis

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 199 | Submission Open

Keywords: rainfall; soil; land degradation; variabiltity; drought; modeling

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

Advances in Ecohydrology in Arid Inland River Basins, 2nd Edition

edited by

Lianqing Xue

and

Guang Yang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 161 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change and water cycle; ecohydrological processes; efficient utilization of water resources; ecohydrological modeling; ecological and hydrological coupling; ecological pattern; ecological water requirement; arid inland river basin

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Climate-Driven Coastal and Ocean Dynamics: Waves, Shoreline Changes, and Carbon Cycle Interactions

edited by

Frédéric Kpèdonou Bonou

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

Keywords: coastal erosion; wave climate; carbon sequestration; shoreline dynamics; ocean acidification; blue carbon; climate adaptation; remote sensing; sediment transport; extreme events

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

Changes in the Regimes of Glacial and Permafrost-Influenced Watersheds in the High Arctic

edited by

Grzegorz Janicki

and Łukasz Franczak

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

Keywords: proglacial catchment hydrology and hydrochemistry; glacial; snowmelt; permafrost and mixed-river regime; river flow dynamics and variability; rainfall and snowmelt floods; river and overland runoff; foodplain and channel morphology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Mine Water Treatment, Utilization and Storage Technology

edited by Xiaojun Wang,

Xiang Li

and

Zhan Yang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-salinity wastewater; mine water treatment; mine water utilization; resource reuse; geological storage technology

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

Advancements in Remote Sensing and UAV Technologies for Water Management in Climate-Smart Agriculture Systems

edited by

Muhammad Awais

,

Xander Wang

,

Wei Li

and Selvarajah Thuseethan

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 129 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; climate-smart agriculture; water management; digital twins; sustainable farming; agricultural water use efficiency

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

Machine Learning Models for Hydrological Inference: A Case Study for Flood Events

edited by

Li Zhou

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open

Keywords: development and optimization of machine learning models for flood prediction and early warning; multi-source data fusion and remote sensing applications in flood monitoring; hydrological response modeling under extreme rainfall conditions; interpretability; transferability; and uncertainty quantification of machine learning models; small-sample learning and transfer learning in data-scarce regions; hybrid modeling approaches that integrate physical-based and machine learning models; case studies and system-level applications of machine learning in real-world flood management contexts

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

Application of Hydrological Modelling to Water Resources Management

edited by

Doosun Kang

,

Amir Saman Tayerani Charmchi

and

Fatemeh Ghobadi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 98 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate-change adaptation; climate-related disasters; decision support systems; digital twins; early warning systems; environmental uncertainties; hydrological modeling; integrated water resources management (IWRM); machine learning and deep learning; model-informed decision making; multi-criteria decision making; multi-objective opti-mization; optimal water allocation; probabilistic modeling; proactive management strategies; reinforcement learning; remote sensing and GIS applications; scheduling and planning; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); water– energy nexus; water supply and demand; water resources management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Water Resource Simulation and Optimal Allocation: Theory, Methods and Applications

edited by

Adebayo J. Adeloye

and

Rabee Rustum

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 96 | Submission Open

Keywords: simulation; optimization methods; hybrid simulation– optimisation; multi-objective optimisation; irrigation; hy-dropower; floods; water quality; artificial intelligence (AI); machine learning (ML); heuristics optimization; un-certainty characterization; climate change

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

Water-Soil-Vegetation Interactions in Changing Climate

edited by Mingjie Shi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– soil– vegetation nexus; carbon and water cycles; global environmental change; ecosystem resilience; sustainable management strategies

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

Advanced Perspectives on the Water–Energy–Food Nexus

edited by Qiong Yue,

Guohua He

, Mengyang Wu and

Xinchun Cao

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– energy– food nexus; integrated management; cross-sectoral policy; climate resilience; cascading risk

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

Human–Water Interactions: Water Supply, Livelihood and Rural Society

edited by Liangxin Fan

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open

Keywords: water governance; water consumption; water conservation; water sanitation; water supply; water resource management; public policy

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

Advanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies with the Potential to Achieve Resource Recycling

edited by

Kinjal J. Shah

and

Yongjun Sun

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 45 | Submission Open

Keywords: water conservation; sustainable water management; efficient water use; water-saving technologies; water resource preservation; climate-resilient water systems; community water stewardship

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

Risk Assessment and Mitigation for Water Conservancy Projects

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open

Keywords: dams; dikes; water diversion projects; risk; seepage; overtopping; breach; consequences; management

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

Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Monitoring and Conservation, 2nd Edition

edited by

Igor Zelnik

and

Mateja Germ

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 36 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; rivers; lakes; wetlands; springs; streams; groundwater; ponds; macrophytes; macroinvertebrates; diatoms; algae

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

Rethinking Wastewater: Microbial Solutions for a Sustainable Future

edited by

Bharat Manna

and

Naresh Singhal

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 35 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater valorization; environmental biotechnology; activated sludge processes; microbial stress response; resource recovery; omics technologies; dissolved organic matter; circular bioeconomy; micropollutant degradation; metabolic modelling

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

Novel Advanced Oxidation Technology for Water Treatment

edited by Pengwei Yan, Lei Yuan and Jimin Shen

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 34 | Submission Open

Keywords: UV; oxidants; water purification; reactive oxygen species; underlying mechanism

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

Geotechnical and Underground Engineering Problems Caused by Water Action

edited by Yonggang Zhang, Cheng Lyu and

Lichen Li

submission deadline 24 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 7998 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– soil coupling; tunnel water inflow; rock seepage; wading slope; hydraulic coupling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Optimisation of Water Distribution System Design and Operation Under Uncertainty

edited by

Avi Ostfeld

and

Sriman Pankaj Boindala

submission deadline 24 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open

Keywords: water distribution systems; uncertainty analysis; hydraulic and water quality modeling under uncertainty; optimization under uncertainty; stochastic and robust optimization; adaptive operational control; decision support systems under uncertainty

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

Hydrodynamics Science Experiments and Simulations, 2nd Edition

edited by

Yonggang Lu

, Yandong Gu,

Wenwu Zhang

and

Yongyao Luo

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1261 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrodynamic experiment; hydrodynamic simulation; hydraulic machinery; multiphase flow; hydro energy technology

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

Effects of Vegetation on Open Channel Flow and Sediment Transport

edited by

Mengyang Liu

and

Yanxu Wang

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 943 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic vegetation; sediment transport; vegetation– flow– sediment interaction; turbulence; eco-hydraulics; open channel flow; river morphology

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

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