Water in Transition: Intelligence, Resilience and Integrated Governance for a Changing World.
WREM 2026 invites original research, technological advances, case studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives addressing the transformation of water and environmental systems under climate change, rapid digitalization, emerging environmental risks, and increasing interactions among water, energy, food, ecosystems, and society.
Topics of interest are organized around four interconnected thematic tracks:
Track 1. Digital Hydrology and Intelligent Water Systems
This track focuses on how advances in sensing, modelling, data science, and artificial intelligence are transforming the understanding, monitoring, and management of water systems.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Digital twins for river basins, irrigation districts, urban water systems, and water infrastructure
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning for rainfall-runoff modelling, flood and drought forecasting, and hydrological prediction
- IoT, remote sensing, and edge computing for real-time hydrological and water-quality monitoring
- Data-driven water resources allocation, reservoir operation, and watershed management
- Groundwater dynamics and surface water-groundwater interaction modelling
- GIS, intelligent decision-support systems, and digital platforms for water management
- Smart irrigation, water-use efficiency, and intelligent operation of urban and agricultural water systems
Track 2. Water Quality, Emerging Pollution, and Sustainable Treatment
This track addresses emerging threats to water quality as well as new technologies and strategies for pollution prevention, treatment, resource recovery, and environmental health protection
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Emerging contaminants, including microplastics, PFAS, antibiotic resistance genes, and endocrine-disrupting compounds
- Fate, transport, transformation, and ecological effects of pollutants in aquatic environments
- Pollution source identification, environmental exposure, and ecological and human health risk assessment
- Groundwater contamination and integrated soil-groundwater remediation
- Advanced wastewater treatment, green remediation materials, and low-energy treatment technologies
- Water reuse, reclaimed water utilization, and circular water systems
- Monitoring, rapid detection, and intelligent control of water pollution
- Resource and energy recovery from wastewater treatment processes
Track 3. Climate Resilience, Ecosystem Restoration, and Coastal Water Environments
This track explores how water and ecological systems can adapt to climate change and increasing environmental pressures, with particular emphasis on resilience, nature-based solutions, and ecosystem restoration.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Climate change impacts on hydrological processes and water availability
- Floods, droughts, compound hydrological extremes, and water-related disaster risks
- Climate adaptation and resilience of river basins, cities, and water infrastructure
- Nature-based solutions for flood mitigation, river restoration, and wetland rehabilitation
- Aquatic biodiversity, ecosystem services, and ecological water requirements
- Ecological engineering and restoration of rivers, lakes, wetlands, and watersheds
- Coastal resilience, sea-level rise, storm surges, and seawater intrusion
- Marine pollution, blue carbon ecosystems, and restoration of coastal and marine environments
Track 4. Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus and Integrated Water Governance
This track focuses on the growing interdependence among water, energy, food, ecosystems, climate, and socioeconomic development, and on new approaches to integrated and sustainable water governance.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) nexus modelling and integrated resource management
- Water-energy interactions and cross-sectoral resource efficiency
- Low-carbon and carbon-neutral pathways for water supply, wastewater treatment, and water reuse
- Carbon footprint assessment and resource efficiency in the water sector
- Impacts of urbanization and land-use change on water-energy-ecosystem systems
- Watershed ecological compensation and cross-regional water management
- Transboundary water governance and international cooperation
- Water policy, institutional innovation, stakeholder participation, and community-based management
- Interdisciplinary decision-making for sustainable and resilient water systems