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Climate Change Impacts on Land Surface, Hydrological Processes and Water Management
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 14 articles | Viewed by 27999
Keywords: climate change; land use/land cover change; hydrologic and ecologic modeling; hydrometeorology; ecohydrology; hydrological processes; water management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Water Quality Engineering and Wastewater Treatment III submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 22882
Keywords: advanced wastewater technology; onsite wastewater treatment; natural wastewater treatment system; biological treatment; physicochemical treatment; tertiary treatment; water quality; sludge treatment and disposal; energy-efficient wastewater treatment; water reuse; resource recovery; municipal wastewater; industrial wastewater; nutrient removal
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Advanced Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Water Reuse submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 18263
Keywords: wastewater; treatment; monitoring; pollutants; water reuse
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources: Assessment and Modeling submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12164
Keywords: water resources; water use; surface water; ground water; variability; projections of change; water regime; seasonality; changes in lake water resources; modelling changes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Anthropogenic and Climatic Disturbances in Aquatic Ecosystems: Multiscale Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Effects
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submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10117
Keywords: water quality; ecosystem structure; ecosystem services; climatic oscillations and trends; runoff; continental loads; biogeochemical cycling; river and lake systems; coastal zones; open sea environments
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Water Management in Arid and Semi-arid Regions submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9744
Keywords: water resource management; climate change; extreme climate; drought; flood; water security; sustainable development; arid regions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
Water Supply System Reliability, Safety and Risk Modelling & Assessment, Volume II submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7168
Keywords: hazard identification; matrix; manage drinking water supply safety; risk analysis; risk and vulnerability assessment; safety; water safety plans; water supply systems; water demand modeling; water supply systems; water network failure analysis; water losses; innovative methodologies; water quality monitoring; techniques and technology for smart water systems; optimal network design; water distribution networks; contamination; water– energy nexus; water quality; failure risk analysis; prediction models; the rehabilitation of water distribution networks; reliability-based risk assessment; risk assessment methodology; the safety of water supply systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
Water–Energy Nexus in the Era of Smart Water Revolution and Energy Transition submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6340
Keywords: water– energy nexus; water smart grid; digital twins; energy transition; sustainability; resilience; machine learning; energy recovery; distribution systems optimisation; water demand forecasting
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water-Energy Nexus)
Effects of Xenobiotics on Freshwater Organisms—the Symbiotic Approach
edited by Goran Kovačević, and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5048
Keywords: symbiosis; freshwater biodiversity; ecotoxicology; anthropogenic stressors; microscopy; histomorphometry; oxidative stress; eDNA; cyto/genotoxicity; education
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Advances in Urban Groundwater and Sustainable Water Resources Management and Planning II submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4916
Keywords: urban hydrological cycle; groundwater GIS map** for urban areas; urban hydrogeochemistry and isotopic hydrology; urban hydraulics and hydrodynamics; urban groundwater recharge; urban groundwater; planning; and engineering; urban conceptual models and numerical modeling; integrated water resources management for urban areas; geochemical change; ecotoxicology; geomicrobiology; and hydrobiology studies in urban environments; environmental risk assessment for urban areas; urban groundwater and geohazards; uncertainty; variability; and climate change impacts in urban groundwater systems; ethics; environment; society; and groundwater for urban areas
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Water Microbiology and Water Quality
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4615
Keywords: water microbiome; wastewater surveillance; antimicrobial resistance; microbial source tracking; QMRA; public health; water reuse; managed aquifer recharge
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Urban Wastewater Treatment and Resource Utilization Based on Microalgae
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submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4575
Keywords: microalgae-based urban wastewater treatment; microalgae selection and breeding; process optimization; microalgae– bacterial combined wastewater treatment; microalgae– fungus combined water treatment; microalgae immobilization; microalgae separation; microalgae harvesting; microalgae resource utilization; environmental risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Harmful Algae Control
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submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4005
Keywords: water bloom control; red tide control; emerging pollutants; physical methods; chemical methods; biological methods; ecological methods; mechanisms of action; short-term effects; long-term effects
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Application of GIS and Remote Sensing in Coastal Processes submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2278
Keywords: coastal environments and disasters; coastal land-use changes; coastal land subsidence; coastal flooding; rising sea levels; wetland and mangrove monitoring; coastal carbon neutrality; coastal water quality; coastal urbanization; offshore aquaculture; coastline changes and erosion; green and red tides; oil spill and typhoon impacts; data modelling; new algorithms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Emerging Contaminants in Natural and Engineered Water Environments: Environmental Behavior, Ecological Effects and Control Strategies
edited by , **aodong Li and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2059
Keywords: emerging contaminants; environmental behavior; ecotoxicology; ecological engineering; environmental remediation; treatment technologies; environmental microorganisms; natural processes; risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Sustainable and Best Available Technologies (BATs) for Wastewater and Sludge Treatment/Management in the Global South
edited by Markus Starkl and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1662
Keywords: assessment; best available; innovative; non-sewered; policies; sludge; sustainable; treatment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Hydraulic and Transient Performances of Pumped-Storage Units
edited by **aolong Fu
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1639
Keywords: pumped-storage unit; hydraulic stability; transient characteristics; hydraulic loss; flow simulation and experiments; flow control; multi-objective optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Wave–Structure Interaction in Coastal and Ocean Engineering
edited by , Can Yang and Ruijia **
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1465
Keywords: wave– structure interaction; linear and nonlinear waves; fixed and floating structures; theoretical analysis; numerical simulation; physical experiment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Studies on the Impacts of Climate Change on Hydrology and Water Resources
edited by Feng** Li, Jun Zhang and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1181
Keywords: climate change; hydrological cycle; climatic and hydrologic models; hydrological prediction and projection; future scenario simulation; hydrological extreme events; uncertainty and risk; management and planning of water resources; mitigation and adaptation measures
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Spatial Analysis of Flooding Phenomena in Urban Environments: Challenges and Case Studies submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 585
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
River Confluence Dynamics: Flow Patterns, Water Quality and Environmental Consequences
edited by **a Shen
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 323
Keywords: river confluence; flow patterns water quality; microplastics; transportation; environmental consequences; sediment; pollutant multi-process coupling model
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Wastewater Pollution and Control submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 219
Keywords: wastewater treatment; sewage sludge treatment and disposal; wastewater pollution; industrial wastewater treatment; reclamation and utilization of sewage; denitrification; phosphorus removal; and desalination; microbiology of water treatment; water advanced treatment; water environment and surface sediments.
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Mathematical Models of Fluid Dynamics
edited by Muhammad Hameed
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 170
Keywords: fluid dynamics; mathematical models; Navier– Stokes equations; turbulence modeling; computational fluid dynamics (CFDs); boundary layer theory; multiphase flow; fluid– structure interactions; fluid– particle interactions; free surface flows; interfacial phenomena; biofluids; astrophysics; numerical methods; simulation; interdisciplinary collaboration; water sciences
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
The Eutrophication of Freshwater Ecosystems submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 170
Keywords: wetlands; nitrogen; phosphorus; microbes; eutrophication; toxic chemicals; water quality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Microbial Characteristics of Drinking Water
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submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 102
Keywords: drinking water treatment applications; tracking microbial contamination; water pollution prevention and control; microbial communities in distribution systems; microbial contamination; microbiological stability; microbiological safety
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Novel Insights on Wastewater Treatment Processes for Sustainable Removal of Emerging Contaminants submission deadline 5 Jul 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4958 | Submission Open
Keywords: emerging contaminants; wastewater characterization; wastewater reuse; circular economy; sustainable strategies; advanced wastewater treatment; ecotoxicity; life cycle assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Geochemistry of Water and Sediment III submission deadline 10 Jul 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 17912 | Submission Open
Keywords: water and sediment quality; geochemical composition; heavy metals; pollution; drinking water; analytical methods; monitoring; legislative development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Impacts of Extreme Hydrogeomorphological Events and Climate-Related Disasters
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submission deadline 10 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4169 | Submission Open
Keywords: extreme events; climate change; climate-related hazards; impacts; natural disasters
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Water, Waste and Wastewater: Treatment and Resource Recovery, 2nd Edition
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submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11305 | Submission Open
Keywords: water; wastewater; saline water; water quality; wastewater quality; treatment; waste; impact; cycle; effluent; sewage; pollution; reuse; recycle; resource recovery; desalination; ecosystems; zero discharge policy; STP; ETP; EIA; MSW
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Safety Evaluation of Dam and Geotechnical Engineering, Volume II submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 12 articles | Viewed by 10453 | Submission Open
Keywords: dam; geotechnical engineering; safety; hydraulics and hydrodynamics field; seismic; reliability analysis; numerical simulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Enhancing Planning in the Management Urban Water Systems to Increase Resilience submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 8641 | Submission Open
Keywords: assessment and diagnosis; planning; resilience measures; resilience; uncertainty modelling; urban water systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
Dissolved Organic Matter in Sludge
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submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3740 | Submission Open
Keywords: dissolved organic matter; proteinaceous compounds; amino acids; humic substances; sludge treatment and disposal
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Technological and Mechanism Research on Algal Bloom Mitigation and Resource Recycling
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submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3174 | Submission Open
Keywords: harmful cyanobacterial bloom; mitigation technology; mitigation mechanism; algicidal material; cyanotoxin removal; resource recycling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Drought Risk Assessment and Human Vulnerability in the 21st Century submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2721 | 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)
Urban Flood Modelling and Risk Management
edited by Huabing Huang, and Ming Zhong
submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1996 | Submission Open
Keywords: flood risk assessment; flood resilience; extreme events; underground spaces; compound flood; flash flood; machine learning; social sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
Recent Advances in Ocean Response to Tropical Cyclones
edited by Wen-Zhou Zhang
submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 144 | Submission Open
Keywords: tropical cyclone; typhoon; hurricane; ocean response; marine disaster; air-sea interaction; air-sea flux; climatic effect
(This special issue belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
Sources and Pollutants of Aquatic Contaminants, and Their Remediation Using SMART Water Systems submission deadline 19 Jul 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9036 | Submission Open
Keywords: SMART water systems; aquatic contaminant sources; pollution assessment; remediation technologies; monitoring and detection; decision support; risk assessment; water age; machine-learning-based optimization; hydrological modeling; cost-effective management; optimization policy; regulatory frameworks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
CFD in Fluid Machinery Design and Optimization submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 16249 | Submission Open
Keywords: CFD; fluid machinery; design and optimization; shock and vibration; unsteady flow; cavitation; multiphase flow
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
Mine and Water
edited by and Youning Xu
submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 16179 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
Toxic Pollutants in Water: Health Risk Assessment and Removal
edited by , , Mujtaba Baqar and
submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14831 | Submission Open
Keywords: water pollution; water treatment techniques; toxic pollutants; pollutant control; health risk assessment; toxicity; environmental composites; nanoparticles; toxic pollutant removal mechanisms; artificial intelligence-based techniques
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
Urbanization, Climate Change and Flood Risk Management
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submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14039 | Submission Open
Keywords: extreme rainfall; floods and flash floods; climate change; urbanization; socioeconomic impacts; responses; risk perception; risk communication; planning; hazard management; and adaptation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
Hydroclimatic Modeling and Monitoring under Climate Change
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submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12750 | Submission Open
Keywords: streamflow; lakes water levels; evapotranspiration; runoff; infiltration; agriculture; wetlands; deforestation– afforestation; urbanization; hydroclimatologic modeling and hydroclimatologic monitoring; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Chemical Analysis and Ecotoxicological Effects in Aquatic Ecosystems submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7213 | Submission Open
Keywords: emerging contaminants; potentially toxic metals; plant protection products; linking exposure and effects; freshwater quality; sea water quality; geographic regions; ecotoxicological indicators; environmental risk assessment; chemical prioritization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
Advanced Desalination Technologies for Water Treatment
edited by Baltasar Peñate Suárez and
submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5172 | Submission Open
Keywords: emerging desalination; newer desalination technologies; high salinity; brine concentration; membrane distillation; hybrid desalination; freeze desalination; capacitive deionization; nanomaterials; low enviromental risks; lowest energy consumption
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series in “Climate Simulations for Hydrological Predictions and Projections” submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4313 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; water resources; hydrological change; downscaling; climate extremes; hydrological forecasts; model uncertainty
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
Hydroinformatics in Hydrology
edited by , , and **aohui Qiao
submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2628 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydroinformatics; hydrologic information systems; water data management; distributed hydrologic modeling; water resources software; cloud computing in water resources; open water data initiatives; hydrologic data collection technologies; open water data analysis and modeling; big data in hydrology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Hydrology)
Water Quality Examination: The Investigation of Heavy Metal Contamination, Nutrients, and Organic Pollutants in Aquatic Environments for an Enhanced Prevention and Purification Process
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submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2573 | 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)
New Technologies for Soil and Groundwater Remediation
edited by Canlan Jiang and
submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2344 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil remediation; organic pollutants; groundwater treatment; advanced oxidation processes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
Biological Wastewater Treatment Process and Nutrient Recovery
edited by , Miao Zhang and Baodan **
submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2134 | Submission Open
Keywords: biological wastewater nutrient removal; enhanced biological phosphorus removal; ammonia oxidation; nutrient recovery; intracellular carbon development; greenhouse gas; emerging pollutants; toxic pollutants; odorous gas
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
DOM Distribution and Nutrient Dynamics in Freshwater Systems
edited by Petr Porcal
submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1709 | Submission Open
Keywords: dissolved organic matter; phosphorus; nitrogen; lake; reservoir; nutrient dynamics; microbial processes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
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