Water Quality and Health: An Ecological Perspective
August 2025
Water quality is a complex but measurable characterization of the chemical, biological and physical properties from engineered or natural water systems. The quality of water affects the health of animals...
Significance and Enlightenment of Implementing Water Ecological Assessment
June 2025
The quality of aquatic ecology is a fundamental indicator of the condition of water bodies and their environments. Maintaining the integrity of aquatic ecosystems is essential for the conservation of...
Toward Integrated Ecological Operation of River Basins in Arid Regions: Challenges and Emerging Solutions
April 2026
River ecosystems in arid regions are undergoing rapid ecological degradation due to intensive water withdrawal and hydropower development. Ecological operation has emerged globally as a critical approach...
Artificial Intelligence in Aquatic Biology: Identifying and Conserving Aquatic Species
August 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a transformative role in the identification and conservation of aquatic species. By synthesizing recent advancements, this paper highlights the effectiveness of machine...
Challenges and Future Perspectives in the Study of Watershed Aquatic Ecosystem Health
June 2026
In the context of accelerating climate change, intensifying human activities, and expanding watershed development, the degradation of aquatic ecosystems and the limitations of conventional management...
Prospects for Using Multi-omics to Advance the Bioremediation of Organic Micropollutants in Aquatic Environments: A Review
February 2026
The continued rise in concentrations of organic micropollutants (OMPs) in aquatic ecosystems and the significant risks posed by OMPs to environmental and human health emphasize the dire need for effective,...
Toward the Cross-Scale and Intelligent Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystem Health: A Paradigm Shift from Description to Prediction
June 2026
Freshwater ecosystems are undergoing unprecedented degradation driven by accelerating global change and intensive human activity, exposing the fundamental limitations of conventional indicator-based...
Priorities and Future Outlook for Cross-Country Collaboration in Surface Water Quality Modeling: Collective Insights from China, Australia, and New Zealand
June 2026
Water quality modeling is a powerful tool for analyzing the spatiotemporal dynamics of water quality and its key drivers. It is determined by the different development stages, management priorities,...
Integrated Framework for Lake Ecological Risk Assessment: Prioritizing Areas and Uncovering Mechanisms across Aquatic–Terrestrial Boundaries
April 2026
Lake ecosystems are increasingly threatened by climate change and human activities. However, conventional ecological risk assessments are often limited to a single perspective and frequently overlook...
Distribution, host association, and spread of antibiotic resistance genes in the water-receiving area of the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project
Available online 11 July 2026
Rapid urbanization has created heterogeneous aquatic niches in megacities, yet how functionally distinct water bodies shape the environmental resistome remains poorly understood. We analyzed 30 surface-water...
Insights into the fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in drinking water based on bibliometric analysis: research hot spots, challenges, and trends
October 2025
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are highly persistent and widely distributed PFASs contaminants that pose a serious threat to drinking water quality. However, few bibliometric studies have...
A 10-year investigation of the impact of a wastewater treatment plant upgrade on nitrogen-cycling microorganisms and DNA viruses in receiving river
February 2026
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are upgraded to improve the quality of river water downstream, but the effects of such upgrades on aquatic microbial and viral communities remain poorly understood....
Challenges and future perspectives on the ecological uses of reclaimed water
December 2025
Ecological use is a paramount and primary application of reclaimed water. It is of great significance in alleviating the contradiction between water supply and demand, reducing water pollution, and...
Integrating Native and Functional Plants in Constructed Wetlands: A Self-sustaining Approach to Rural Sewage Treatment
February 2026
The management of rural sewage faces significant challenges due to the dispersed settlements and inadequate infrastructure characteristics of rural areas. One sustainable management solution is to use...
Reframing Dams as Basin Governance Platforms: Engineering Safety, System Operations, and Digital-Intelligent Governance in China
April 2026
Dams are central to securing flood protection, water supply, irrigation, hydropower, navigation, and ecological functions. However, their global record reveals persistent dilemmas, including reservoir...
SIMPO – A Simplified Intelligent Modelling Platform Online for Code-free and Shareable Wastewater Treatment Process Modelling
December 2025
The expansion of knowledge of and demand for wastewater treatment has driven the increasing complexity of its models. The establishment or use of such complicated models is difficult for environmental...
6∶2 Chlorinated Polyfluorinated Ether Sulfonic Acid (6∶2 Cl-PFESA) Exposure Exacerbates the Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance Genes during Anaerobic Digestion
April 2026
Perfluoroalkyl sulfonate alternatives, such as 6∶2 chlorinated polyfluorinated ether sulfonic acid (6∶2 Cl-PFESA), are increasingly detected in wastewater treatment systems, yet their ecological risks...
Evolution Patterns of Water Ecology and Systematic Governance in the Yangtze River Basin
June 2025
The uniqueness and integrity of water ecology in the Yangtze River Basin is of great significance for maintaining global ecological balance. Understanding the historical evolution of water ecology pattern...
Assessment of heavy metal pollution in an urbanized waterway of the Pearl River Delta, China
December 2025
To combat environmental pollution, a viable option is to adjust industrial structures to reduce the emissions of pollutants. One means to gauge the effects of such change is assessing the potential...
Beyond the Boundary: Bridging Earth Science and Environmental Engineering for Waterborne Pathogen Mitigation
June 2026
Waterborne pathogens represent a persistent threat to human health with recalcitrant transmission dynamics shaped by the intricate interplay between the natural environment and anthropogenic disturbances....
Panning for Gold: Finding Representative Water Quality Dynamic Data for Data-Efficient Machine Learning Through Koopman Analysis
June 2026
The perception and prediction of water quality dynamics are crucial for optimizing water system management in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Various machine learning (ML) methods have been employed...
Monitoring and Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Yangtze River Basin
June 2026
Monitoring and assessing aquatic ecosystems are essential for diagnosing ecological conditions and supporting ecosystem management at the basin scale. In response to the strategic transition from a...
Precision Accounting and Targeted Allocation of High-Quality Water in Protected Areas: A Source–Flow–Use Framework Applied to Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park
February 2026
High-quality water resources (HQWRs) generated in ecological conservation areas, such as national parks, constitute critical ecosystem products. However, conventional water allocation frameworks often...
Enteric Viruses and Free-Living Amoebae: Protozoa as Potential Reservoirs and Transport Vessels for Human Norovirus and Adenovirus
October 2025
Human norovirus (HNoV) and human adenovirus (HAdV) are major causes of acute viral gastroenteritis globally and environmentally transmitted via the faecal-oral route through contaminated food and water....
The Overlooked “Toxic Trap” in No-take Marine Reserves
April 2026
Driven by the ambitious global “30×30” biodiversity target, the unprecedented expansion of no-take marine reserves (NTRs) has yielded significant ecological dividends, notably the remarkable recovery...