Preface to the special topic: New advances in water and water systems

Water and related systems play a central role in science and technology. Although water has unusual and anomalous behaviors,if compared with normal liquids, it is of fundamental interest in many research fields going from chemical-physics to life sciences. The first and well known example of these anomalies is the density maximum, at 277 K, intuited by Galilei [1] in 1612and lately discovered in Florence [2].