Water

Water Modeling Using Combined Machine Learning and Fieldwork Investigation

edited by

Joonghyeok Heo

,

Huidae Cho

and Netra Regmi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 320 | 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)

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

edited by

Peng Du

and

Phong K. Thai

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 302 | 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)

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 254 | 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)

Marine Waters for Health and Well-Being

edited by

Laurent Vandanjon

and Vincent Blanckaert

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 161 | 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)

Research on Isotope Investigations in Groundwater Studies

edited by

Paula M. Carreira

and

José Manuel Marques

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 87 | 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 64 | 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)

Constructed Wetlands: Enhancing Contaminant Removal and Remediation

edited by

Xiaojuan Feng

and

Shentan Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 50 | 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)

Soil–Water Interaction and Management

edited by

Fu Chen

and Zhanbin Luo

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture; soil– water management; irrigation systems; drought conditions; climate 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 | Viewed by 40 | 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)

Pollution Mechanisms and Source Apportionment of Typical Pollutants in Aquatic Environments

edited by Qianqian Zhang

submission deadline 5 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 243 | 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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3031 | 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 171 | 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 40 | 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 | Viewed by 93 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; freshwater ecosystems; water quality; societal challenges

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

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 208 | 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 69 | 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)

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 | Viewed by 40 | 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)

Groundwater Quality and Contamination at Regional Scales

edited by

Guanxing Huang

and

Liangping Li

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7425 | 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 3836 | 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)

Research Status of Operation and Management of Hydropower Station

edited by Dong Liu and Yanhe Xu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2703 | 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)

Research on Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry: Challenges and Prospects

edited by

Josip Terzić

and

Staša Borović

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2634 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2541 | 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)

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 1681 | 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)

Advances in Sustainable Management of Contaminated Stormwater

edited by

Jens Tränckner

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 499 | Submission Open

Keywords: stormwater management; commercial areas contamination; traffic contamination; agriculture pollutants; stormwater treatment; urban drainage; water quality

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

Application of Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Pengxiang Qiu

,

Shuai Zhang

and Zhihui Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 291 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation processes (AOPs); hybrid AOP technologies; wastewater treatment; photocatalysis; electrocatalysis; Fenton reactions; ozonation; reactive oxygen species (ROS); emerging contaminants; contaminant degradation

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

Sustainable Nutrients Management Strategies to Reduce Nutrients Pollution Along the Landscape-River-Sea Systems

edited by

Lorenzo Proia

, Josue González Camejo and Laura Díaz-Guerra

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 242 | Submission Open

Keywords: nutrients; pollution; soil; rivers; sea; wastewaters; agricultural practices; environmental technologies; sustainability; circularity

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

Pesticides in Water and Health

edited by

Li Chen

and Wenjun Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 63 | Submission Open

Keywords: pesticide; bioaccumulation; toxicological assessment; health risk assessment; in vitro; in vivo

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

Water Resources and Environment Management in Watersheds With Intensive Human Activities

edited by

Chenning Deng

and

Yang Xu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 58 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; water environment; sustainable management; human activities; influencing factors

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

Coupled Numerical Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Surface Water Interactions

edited by

Shengchao Yu

and

Xiaolang Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open

Keywords: numerical modeling; aquifer characterization; hydrogeology; hydrochemistry; groundwater hydrology; groundwater flow; solute (reactive) transport; surface water and groundwater interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Ecosystem Dynamics in Mountainous and Cold-Region Ecosystems

edited by Terry V. Callaghan CMG and

Olga M. Shaduyko

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

Keywords: water resources and water use; biodiversity; climate changes; cold regions; mountainous regions; ecosystems; ecosystem services and feedback; human impact; population

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)

Groundwater Environmental Impacts and Control Strategies of Coal Mining and Energy Development/Storage Activities

edited by

Yonghui Wu

, Lijun Liu and Jingwei Huang

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

Keywords: aquifer-protected coal mining; water conservation mining technology; sustainable development of geothermal energy; aquifer gas/thermal storage; underground water/gas/thermal reservoir in mine goaf; evolution of groundwater dynamic fields; recycling technology and pollution control of mine water; dynamic monitoring and remediation of groundwater; coupled flow in fractured porous media; rock mechanics under THMC multi-field coupling; fracture initiation and propagation; low-carbon treatment and resource utilization of mine water

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Engineered Nanoporous Sorbents for Removing Emerging Pollutants from Aqueous Environments

edited by Jian Shen

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

Keywords: nanoporous sorbents; engineering strategies; emerging pollutants; adsorption; water purification

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

Isotope Hydrology: Tracing Water’s Journey and Water–Rock Interactions in a Changing World

edited by

Tianming Huang

,

Buli Cui

, Xianjun Xie, Zhongyin Cai, Jinlong Zhou and

Zhonghe Pang

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

Keywords: isotope hydrology; water– rock– gas interaction; surface water– groundwater interaction; groundwater recharge; fate of nutrients (S-N-C-P); groundwater age dating; water contamination tracing; water quality; atmospheric water cycle; paleoclimate; geothermal resources; CCUS (carbon capture; utilization; and storage)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)

Resilient Rivers: Integrating Nature-Based Solutions with Hydraulic Engineering

edited by

Su-Chin Chen

and

Kao-Hua Chang

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

Keywords: Nature-based Solutions (NbS); hydraulic engineering; eco-hydraulics; river resilience; flood mitigation; sediment transport; erosion control; green infrastructure; river restoration; hydrodynamic modeling; climate adaptation; water quality; ecosystem services; sustainable river management; river rewilding

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

Engineering Hydrogeology Research Related to Mining Activities, 2nd Edition

edited by Wei Qiao and Bo Li

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanism of water inrush; prediction of mine water hazard; intelligent warning and monitor of mine water hazard; mine water injection and storage; mine water reinjection and geological storage; mine inflow; evolution of groundwater flow field; water inrush from separate layer; research on rock dynamics with fluid– structure coupling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)

Algae Distribution, Risk, and Prediction

edited by

Jiawen Wang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 21 | Submission Open

Keywords: algae; biodiversity; spatiotemporal distribution; risk; management

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

Impact of Biochar Additions on Soil Hydraulic Properties

edited by Peizhen Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 5 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil hydraulic properties; biochar characteristic; soil water retention; water-saving irrigation; soil pore characteristics

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

Treatment and Resource Utilization of Urban Sewage Sludge

edited by

Jiangwei Li

, Yan Li and Xiaoyong Yang

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1100 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban sewage sludge; treatment technologies; resource utilization; environmental impact; anaerobic digestion; composting; incineration; land application; circular economy; sustainable management

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

Wetland Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment

edited by

Qi Huang

and Tianxiang Wang

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 264 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; monitoring and assessment; aquatic ecosystems; model; sustainability; machine learning

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

Applications of Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Water Resource Management

edited by

Rana Waqar Aslam

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 190 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological remote sensing; water resource monitoring; satellite hydrology; soil moisture detection; precipitation estimation; flood mapping; drought assessment; multi-sensor integration; machine learning in hydrology; wetlands/lakes dynamics

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

Advancing Data-Driven Approaches in Landscape Hydrology: Innovations and Applications

edited by

Mo Wang

,

Rana Muhammad Adnan Ikram

and

Shiqi Zhou

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 63 | Submission Open

Keywords: data-driven hydrology; machine learning in hydrology; hydroinformatics; climate change adaptation; nature-based solutions; GIS-based hydrological modeling; flood and drought mitigation; sustainable water management

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

Application of Electrochemical Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Arif Reza

and

Soomin Shim

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrocoagulation; electrooxidation; electro-fenton process; electrodialysis; electrode materials; reactive electrochemical membranes; advanced electrochemical oxidation processes (AEOPs); process modeling and optimization; hybrid electrochemical-biological systems; decentralized wastewater treatment; techno-economic and life cycle assessment (LCA)

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

Biological Nitrogen Removal in the Multi-Omics Era: Coupling Anammox with Microbial-Mineral Synergy

edited by Zhaoming Zheng,

Xiaoxia Wang

and

Yuanyuan Miao

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 46 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable nitrogen removal processes; anaerobic ammonium oxidation; aerobic granular sludge; microbial& ndash; mineral interactions; multi-omics microbial analysis; bioengineering in wastewater treatment; nitrogen biogeo-chemical cycle; detection and removal of emerging pollutants; water quality assurance technologies; resource re-covery from wastewater

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

Advancing the Monitoring and Modelling of Freshwater Systems with New Remote Sensing Technologies, 2nd Edition

edited by

Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 37 | Submission Open

Keywords: airborne remote sensing; flood forecasting; fluvial geomorphology; ice detection; ice characterization; near-ground remote sensing; river and lake modelling; river and lake monitoring; sediment transport; space-borne remote sensing; water quality

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

Complexities and Uncertainties of Water Policy, Governance and Management

edited by Liang Yuan, Weijun He and Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open

Keywords: complexity; uncertainty; adaptability management; resilience governance; cooperation mechanisms

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

Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing in Ecohydrology

edited by

Xiaoping Wang

and

Xiangyu Ge

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite remote sensing; hydrological models; deep learning; data-driven methods

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

Advances in Phytomanagement of Arsenic and Emerging Contaminants in Soil and Water

edited by Patrizia Brunetti and

Giuseppe Capobianco

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 28 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil and sewage sludge contamination; water contamination; Arsenic; microplastics; PFASs heavy metals; molecular and morpho-physiological response in plants; advanced monitoring technologies

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

Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation, 2nd Edition

edited by

Peng Li

, Jianye Ma and

Binhua Zhao

submission deadline 26 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; soil and water conservation; ecohydrology; climate change; vegetation restoration; gully engineering

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

Advances in Biological Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

edited by

Jingqing Gao

and

Panpan Liu

submission deadline 27 Nov 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9803 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; biological technologies; nutrient recovery; environmental microbiology; hydrophytes; emerging contaminants; carbon neutrality

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

Preparation, Characterization and Photocatalytic Degradation of the Sulfate Oxidants for Water Treatment

edited by

Zihao Wu

submission deadline 28 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 24 | Submission Open

Keywords: sulfate radicals; AOP; photocatalytic degradation; radical reaction kinetics; catalyst characterization; catalyst synthesis and optimization

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

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