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Water 2025 Best Paper Award
Winner announcement: 31 March 2025
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in Water will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
by
Arman Ahmadi, Mohammadali Olyaei, Zahra Heydari, Mohammad Emami, Amin Zeynolabedin, Arash Ghomlaghi, Andre Daccache, Graham E. Fogg and Mojtaba Sadegh
Article 1st-Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | SLU · Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment
Masoud Negahban-Azar
Review 1st-Department of Environmental Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Xiaoping Zhang
Article 2nd-South China University of Technology
Liliana Serwecińska
Review 2nd-European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology PAS.
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
Winner
Fabienne Trolard
Water Quality Indices: Challenges and Application Limits in the Literature
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/2/361
Hristos Tyralis
A Brief Review of Random Forests for Water Scientists and Practitioners and Their Recent History in Water Resources
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/5/910
Lorena Liuzzo
Effectiveness of Rainwater Harvesting Systems for Flood Reduction in Residential Urban Areas
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/7/1389
Álvaro-Francisco Morote
The Use of Non-Conventional Water Resources as a Means of Adaptation to Drought and Climate Change in Semi-Arid Regions: South-Eastern Spain
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/1/93
Jonathan L. Goodall
Forecasting Groundwater Table in a Flood Prone Coastal City with Long Short-term Memory and Recurrent Neural Networks
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/5/1098
Stefania Anna Palermo
Hydrological Effectiveness of an Extensive Green Roof in Mediterranean Climate
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/7/1378
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
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