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Advanced Technologies for Water Erosion Mapping and Environmental Change Detection
edited by
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 34 | Submission Open
Keywords: water erosion; land degradation; environmental change detection; soil erosion mapping; digital elevation models (DEMs); gully erosion; sediment transport; erosion modelling; LiDAR and UAV photogrammetry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)
Monitoring and Assessment of Pollutants in Coastal Waters, Sediments, and Biota, 2nd Edition
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 34 | Submission Open
Keywords: monitoring; assessment; pollutants; coastal water; marine sediments; marine organism; marine environment; food webs
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Microplastics in Water and Wastewater submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open
Keywords: aquatic environment; bioplastics; ecotoxicity; groundwater; microplastics; drinking water; removal efficiency; sludge; surface water; wastewater
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Recent Advances in Maritime Energy Systems
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open
Keywords: development and utilization of marine renewable energy; computational fluid dynamics and numerical simulation; oscillating water column wave energy converter; air turbine; hydrofoil; vertical-axis turbine
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water-Energy Nexus)
Application of Nanomaterials in Soil and Aquatic Environment Remediation submission deadline 26 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 77 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable nanomaterials; wastewater treatment; soil remediation; degradation mechanisms; sustainability assessment; characterisation of NMs; adsorption; advanced oxidation process (AOPs); fate of NMs; photocatalyst
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Social, Cultural, and Economic Factors Directly and Indirectly Influencing Water Resources and Conservation Outcomes
edited by and Kristin E. Gibson
submission deadline 27 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open
Keywords: water resource communication; environmental education; water conservation behavior; social evaluation methods; watershed management; behavioral modification
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Scarcity)
Environmental Behavior, Ecological Effects and Health Risks of Pollutants in Aquatic Ecosystems
edited by and Meiling Xu
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9813 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental pollutants; aquatic organisms; environmental behavior; water ecological effects; health risks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Approaches to Water-induced Landslide Hazard Risk Forecasting and Assessment
edited by Junrong Zhang, , and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8791 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; geomechanics; physical modelling; numerical modelling; slope stability; landslide susceptibility mapping; displacement prediction; landslide mitigation; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Advance in Groundwater in Arid Areas
edited by Yudong Lu
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4098 | Submission Open
Keywords: arid and semi-arid regions; groundwater; groundwater-surface water interaction; groundwater numerical modeling; policies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Modeling of Flood Hazard and Assessment of Inundation Impacts, Vulnerability and Risk in Coastal Areas submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3908 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal flooding; coastal inundation; compound flooding; coastal flood risk; storm surge; climate change impacts; operational forecasting of floods; early warning systems; sea level rise; wave-induced flooding
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Geotechnics and Geostructures Modelling for Hydrodynamic-Driven Landslides: Prediction and Control
edited by Qinwen Tan, and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1889 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydraulic process; landslide evolution; slope stability; geostructures modelling; seepage force; landslide mitigation and control; geotechnics; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources and Water Risks, 3rd Edition
edited by , Fei Chen, Fei Wang, and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; water resource management; drought; flood; remote sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Causes and Reconstruction of Catastrophic Flash Flood Disasters: Investigation, Analysis, Modelling and Risk Management, 2nd Edition
edited by and Meihong Ma
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 66 | Submission Open
Keywords: catastrophic flash floods; climate changes; extreme precipitation; underlying conditions; human activities; hydrological and hydro-meteorological modelling; soil erosion; water-sediment process; mechanism of flash flood disaster; risk assessment and management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Carbon Storage in Lake Sediments Under Climate Change submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 16 | Submission Open
Keywords: carbon cycle; drought; lake; dam reservoir; carbon stocks; humus substances; fulvid and humic acids; sediments; indicators
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Ecohydrological Processes, Environmental Effects, and Integrated Regulation of Wetland Ecosystems, 3rd Edition
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 18 articles | Viewed by 12890 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecohydrological processes; environmental effects; ecological risks; biogeochemical processes; pollution; restoration; regulation; climate change; ecological service functions; wetland ecosystems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)
The Impact of Climate Change and Land Use on Water Resources—an Issue of Environmental Global Safety submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9714 | Submission Open
Keywords: water resources; environmental safety; impact of climate change; management of water resources
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Advance in Hydrology and Hydraulics of the River System Research 2025
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4467 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydraulics; hydrology; river system; flow dynamics; numerical and physical modeling; hydrotechnics; geomorphologic; sediment transport; climate changes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Mathematical, Physical, Chemical, and Biological Methods for Ice and Water Problems
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 4323 | Submission Open
Keywords: lake ice; river ice; sea ice; ice engineering; observations and investigations; water environment; ecology; mathematical method; numerical modeling; physical modeling; chemical analysis; biological analysis; data analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
Urban Water Systems: Challenges in Current Environment
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4255 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban water system; wastewater and stormwater systems; centralised systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
Groundwater Hydrology in Karst Media: Resources and Sustainability in Engineering submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2081 | Submission Open
Keywords: karst hydrology; water resources; karst springs; sustainability; engineering; research
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Water-Related Disasters in Adaptation to Climate Change
edited by Mikio Ishiwatari and Akhilesh Surjan
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1221 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change adaptation; mobilizing climate change finance; flood protection; transdisciplinary approach; pub-lic– private-partnership; community-based disaster risk reduction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Advances in Hydrogeological Investigations: Field Monitoring, GIS, AI, Remote Sensing, Geophysical Techniques, and Hydrochemical Analysis submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1174 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; geophysical methods; geographical information system (GIS); joint interpretation; hydrogeophysical investigations; groundwater investigation; groundwater monitoring; groundwater assessment; groundwater sustainability; aquifer characterization; sustainable water management; groundwater quality; groundwater contamination; groundwater– surface water interaction; groundwater resources; advanced groundwater modeling; investigation of aquifer heterogeneities; regional and transboundary groundwater
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Advanced Research in Non-Point Source Pollution of Watersheds
edited by , Tao Wang, Yan Xu and Cen Meng
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 991 | Submission Open
Keywords: non-point source pollution; landscape patterns; ecological treatments; pollutant removal and resource recovery; emerging contaminants; agriculture green development; watershed intelligent management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Sustainable Groundwater Management and Mitigation of Land Subsidence: Evaluating Environmental Impacts and Resilience Strategies
edited by Shih-Jung Wang and Wei-Chia Hung
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 681 | Submission Open
Keywords: aquifer recharge strategies; resilience in groundwater systems; land use change and subsidence; hydrogeological risk assessment; ecohydrology and environmental impact; adaptive water management; remote sensing in groundwater monitoring; groundwater quality degradation; integrated water resource management; hydrogeological simulation models
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Interplay Between Meteorological, Hydrological and Agricultural Droughts Under the Influence of Changing Climate
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 389 | Submission Open
Keywords: drought; drought propagation; drought mitigation; drought impact assessment; climate change; extreme events; remote sensing; spatial and temporal assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Remote Sensing Application in Support of Water-Soil-Plant Relationships
edited by Genghong Wu and Yi Zeng
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 264 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; water– soil– plant relationships; soil moisture; vegetation monitoring; hydrological modeling; precision agriculture; uavs; satellite imagery; climate change; data fusion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Review Papers of Urban Water Management 2025
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 211 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban water infrastructure; urban water supply; urban drainage; urban catchment hydrology and modeling; sponge cities; stormwater management; rainwater harvesting; green roofs; permeable pavement systems; urban water contamination; effects of urbanization; sustainable development; wastewater; urban wastewater reuse; flood risk management; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
Coastal Engineering and Wave Hydrodynamics Based on Meshless Methods
edited by Can Huang and Jinxin Wu
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 167 | Submission Open
Keywords: meshless method; wave– structure interactions; multi-phase flows; wave energy; marine gas hydrate; submarine landslide; underwater robots
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Numerical Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport
edited by , and Hongjie Wen
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 132 | Submission Open
Keywords: numerical modeling; hydrodynamics; sediment transport; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); multiphase flow; turbulence modeling; erosion and deposition; river morphology; coastal engineering
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)
Advances in Swimming Pool Hygiene Safety and Spa Research
edited by Athena Mavridou, Georgia Mandilara and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open
Keywords: swimming pools; hygiene safety; water microbiology; water chemistry; disinfection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and One Health)
Observation and Modelling of Past, Current and Future Water Resources in Transboundary River Systems
edited by , Zsolt Kozma and Peter Burek
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 94 | Submission Open
Keywords: transboundary river system; hydrological modelling; uncertainty of climate projections; sustainable river basin management; joint monitoring and information systems; multi-level stakeholder engagement
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Multi-Objective Optimization for Sustainable Groundwater Management
edited by Shankar Karuppannan and Nafyad Serre Kawo
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-objective optimization; groundwater management; sustainable water resources; decision support systems; aquifer modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Extreme Rainfall and Hydrological Extremes: Monitoring and Prediction Using Machine Learning and Physical Modeling
edited by and Zhaoqiang Zhou
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open
Keywords: extreme rainfall; prediction; hydrology; remote sensing; early warning; climate change; machine learning; disaster risk; data assimilation; flood forecasting
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
Biogeochemical Processes in Lakes, Ponds and Reservoirs of Urban Environments
edited by , and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 67 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban lakes and ponds; lake biogeochemistry; lake carbon; nutrients; and toxic elements; sustainable urban lake management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Next-Generation Iceberg Behavior Modeling: Integrating Machine Learning, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Environmental Dynamics
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 64 | Submission Open
Keywords: iceberg modeling; machine learning; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); ocean– ice interactions; climate impact on icebergs; remote sensing; Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Biodiversity Assessment and Conservation in High-Altitude Freshwater Systems submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open
Keywords: freshwater; community; high altitude; assessment; management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Research on Microplastic Pollution in Water Environment submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 47 | Submission Open
Keywords: microplastics; aquatic pollution; water contimination; marine microplastics; biodiversity; microplastic detec-tion; nano-microplastics; policy and regulation on microplastics; bioaccumulation; human health
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Climate Change Uncertainties in Integrated Water Resources Management
edited by Thomas Ramsey and Liang Yuan
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; integrated water resources management (IWRM); transboundary rivers; uncertainty; sustainability; water conflict
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
From Theory to Practice: Implementing Resilience, Adaptation and Drivers of Change Frameworks in Water Basin Management submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 38 | Submission Open
Keywords: resilience implementation; adaptive management; practical applications; water governance; social-ecological systems; management tools; operational frameworks; decision-support; policy reform; evaluation metrics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
Water Pollution Monitoring, Control, and Prevention
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open
Keywords: water pollution; monitoring technology; intelligent warning; water quality model; artificial intelligence; pollution prevention and control; water resource management; wastewater resource utilization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Flow Hydrodynamic in Open Channels: Interaction with Natural or Man-Made Structures, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 19 | Submission Open
Keywords: river and open channel flows; hydrodynamic; vegetation; local scouring; turbulent jets; hydraulic jumps; boundary layers; solitary waves and tidal bores; experiments; numerical modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Water Quality, Wastewater Treatment and Water Recycling, 2nd Edition
edited by Memory Tekere
submission deadline 5 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 22 | Submission Open
Keywords: water quality; emerging contaminants; treatment processes; water reuse; SDG6.3; waste effluent valorisation; innovations; advanced technology; pathogens; AI in wastewater issues
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Advances in Plateau Lake Water Quality and Eutrophication
edited by Zhenghui Fu and
submission deadline 10 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 340 | 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)
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: The Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources submission deadline 10 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 95 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban water supply; urban drainage; sustainable urban water management strategies; sponge cities; stormwater harvesting; rainwater use in buildings; green roofs; permeable pavement systems to filter stormwater; urban water contamination; effects of urbanisation; sustainable development; urban wastewater reuse; flood risk management; water resources; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Water Resources Allocation, Planning, and Regulation for Sustainable Management
edited by Carina Almeida
submission deadline 10 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 29 | 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)
Stormwater Management in Sponge Cities
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11711 | Submission Open
Keywords: NbS; rainwater and stormwater management; stormwater quality; runoff reduction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
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 3132 | 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 submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2953 | 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 and Nenad Marić
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2408 | 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)
Water Pollutants and Human Health: Challenges and Perspectives
edited by Simon Jackson and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1469 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomarkers; endotoxin; fungal contaminants; AMR genes; antimicrobials; microplastics; emerging pathogens
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and One Health)
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