Non-Point Source Pollution and Water Resource Protection
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 2496
Special Issue Editor
Interests: water resources protection; non-point source pollution; river confluence; ecology and environmental hydraulics; river pollutant
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Non-point source pollution is a major cause of water quality degradation in watersheds. It is caused by pollutants from agricultural production, domestic wastewater, and fertiliser discharges entering water bodies through runoff, soil erosion, and leaching processes. The random and widespread nature of non-point source pollution makes it a challenge to identify, quantify, and manage, posing a major challenge to water resource protection on a global scale. This Special Issue aims to reveal the drivers, quantitative identification methods, spatial and temporal distribution, and modelling improvements of non-point source pollution in watersheds on a global scale. By sharing relevant scientific and technical experiences, our goal is to provide scientific references and technical support for the quantitative identification of non-point source pollution and water resource protection.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. The scope of the research focusses on non-point source pollution and may include (but is not limited to) the following:
- Quantitative distribution of non-point source pollution loads;
- Risk assessment of drivers;
- Critical source area identification and risk determination;
- Best management practices development;
- Ecological evaluation and restoration of watershed environments;
- Mechanism of water–nutrient–sediment interaction;
- Model optimisation and improvement;
- Multi-process coupled hydrodynamic, ecological, and environmental modelling.
Dr. Xia Shen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- non-point source pollution
- drivers
- critical source areas
- best management practices
- model optimisation
- water resource protection
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