We warmly welcome domestic and foreign universities, scientific research institutions experts, scholars, business people and other relevant personnel to participate in the conference exchange.

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Topic 1 Smart Water Services and Digital Hydrological Management

• Construction and dynamic simulation of digital twin basins/irrigation districts/urban water services systems
• Application of AI and machine learning in rainfall-runoff prediction and flood/drought early warning
• IoT + edge computing-based integrated real-time monitoring of hydrology and water quality
• Application of GIS and blockchain in water right trading, trans-regional collaborative governance and data traceability
• Machine learning-driven water quality parameter inversion, pollution source apportionment and sewage treatment process control

Topic 2 Hydrological Processes and Sustainable Regulation of Water Resources

• Groundwater circulation, surface water-groundwater interaction processes and simulation prediction
• Optimization of watershed hydrological models and systematic planning, scheduling and efficient utilization of water resources
• Agricultural water-saving irrigation technologies and refined management of irrigation district water resources
• Water resource recycling and safe and efficient utilization technologies of reclaimed water

Topic 3 Water Environmental Pollution and Emerging Risk Prevention and Control

• Environmental behavior and ecotoxicology of emerging pollutants such as microplastics, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and endocrine-disrupting chemicals
• Migration and transformation of pollutants at the water-soil-organism-human interface and exposure risk assessment
• Groundwater pollution source tracing, remediation technologies and coordinated protection of soil and groundwater
• Rapid screening technologies for water pollution and R&D and application of green remediation materials
• Correlation mechanisms between water pollution, ecosystem health and human health

Topic 4 Climate Resilience and Ecological Protection and Restoration

• Non-stationary characteristics, attribution and risk prevention and control of extreme hydrological events (heavy rainfall, drought)
• Application of nature-based solutions (NbS) in flood management, river restoration and wetland reconstruction
• Construction and synergistic purification mechanism of watershed ecological buffer zones and constructed wetland coupled systems
• Water resource development, biodiversity conservation and quantification of ecosystem service value
• Application of ecological engineering technologies in water resource and ecological environment restoration

Topic 5 Marine and Coastal Zone Ecological Environment Governance

• Carbon sink function, protection and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves and seagrass beds
• Prevention and control of marine pollution (including emerging pollutants) and ecological environment restoration of coastal waters
• Coupled risk assessment and coastal zone resilience improvement of sea level rise, storm surges and seawater intrusion
• Ecosystem-based marine spatial planning and sustainable development of the blue economy
• Interactive effects of ocean acidification, hypoxia and climate change and biological adaptation mechanisms

Topic 6 Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus and Low-Carbon Development

• WEFE nexus collaborative management and design of watershed ecological compensation mechanisms
• Full-chain carbon footprint accounting and carbon reduction pathways of sewage treatment and water resource utilization
• Collaborative planning of renewable energy (hydropower, photovoltaic, hydrogen energy) and water resource development
• Impacts of urbanization and land use change on water-energy systems and their regulation
• Technological pathways and policy design for carbon neutrality in the water resource sector

Topic 7 Water Governance and Interdisciplinary Collaborative Innovation

• Transboundary water resource collaborative governance and international cooperation mechanisms
• Water policy formulation, environmental risk assessment and construction of smart governance systems
• Practice and innovation of citizen science and community participation in water resource protection
• Interdisciplinary research and practice of the Water-Energy-Climate (WEC) Nexus
• Technological innovation and industry-university-research integration empowering sustainable water resource management