Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This compilation provides guidelines that facilitate the successful planning and operation of water reuse projects.

Focusing on conflict resolution, Water Resources Systems Analysis discusses systematic approaches to the mathematical modeling of various water resources issues, which helps decision-makers allocate water effectively and efficiently.

A definitive guide, this book focuses on the design and construction of water infrastructure projects within karst formations and provides engineering approaches for preventing and mitigating their environmental problems.

The current rate and scale of environmental change around the world makes the detection and understanding of these changes increasingly urgent.

Simplistic thinking would have us believe that by eliminating the loading of a given pollutant, an aquatic system will revert to its previous pristine state.

Groundwater resources are facing increasing pressure from consuming and contaminating activities.

This book is the documented result of an expert workshop, Modeling and Management of Emerging Environmental Issues, held at Penn State University.

Approximately 70% of the world's population lives in coastal areas, and the majority of these people depend on coastal aquifers for freshwater.

Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development describes the concepts, models, and data needed to design and implement management programs for long-term sustainability of coastal lagoons.

The EPA has established regulations which classify four types of disinfection byproducts - TTHMs, haloacetic acids, bromate, and chlorite - and requires public water systems limit these byproducts to specific levels.

Droughts and their management are a serious challenge to water resource professionals.

This is a handbook for policy makers and environmental managers in water authorities and engineering companies engaged in water quality programmes, especially in developing countries.

In the past decade there has been a rapid increase in waterborne outbreaks of disease associated with viral and protozoan agents, normally in drinking waters that were found to be microbially safe using the Coliform Index.

Revised and updated, this second edition of Design of Hydraulic Gates maintains the same goal as the original: to be used as a textbook and a manual of design of gates, presenting the main aspects of design, manufacture, installation and operation of hydraulic gates, while introducing new products, technologies and calculation procedures.

Groundwater is a vital resource of water, in some regions of the world the only source of fresh water.

This new book offers an engineer's perspective on the history of water technology and its impact on the development of civilisation.

Flood risk management policy across the European Union is changing, partly in response to the EU Floods Directive and partly because of new scientific approaches and research findings.

Most government agencies and private companies are investing significant resources in the production and use of geographical data.

Sustainable groundwater development requires knowledge of the appropriate recharge and transport-processes.

Climate change is expected to modify the hydrological cycle and affect freshwater resources.

Porous media are broadly found in nature and their study is of high relevance in our present lives.

In hard rock terrain, shallow water wells generally have a poor to moderate yield.

The challenge of water scarcity as a result of insufficient seasonal rainfall and dry spell occurrences during cropping seasons is compounded by inefficient agricultural practices by smallholder farmers where insignificant soil and water conservation efforts are applied.

Pollution of water sources with emerging contaminants (micropollutants) is a fact known worldwide.

The growing demands of growing populations are causing increased water scarcity all over the world.

This study presents an systematic approach to water quality assessment, hybrid modelling and decision support for eutrophication management in deep reservoirs.

Seawater desalination is a coastal-based industry.

Lessons can be learnt from the past; from time to time it is useful for practitioners to look back over the historical developments of their science.

Resilience and Urban Risk Management presents the latest progress made in designing resilient towns, and identifies leads to be explored for attaining the objective of systematically integrating risks into urban environments The aim of the book is to provide guidance in designing and planning future cities, and to create a new form of risk manageme

All that makes this planet special is largely attributable to liquid water.

The Lake and Pond Management Guidebook is the successor to the bestselling Lake Smarts: The First Lake Maintenance Handbook, the "e;bible"e; for small-scale lake and pond improvements, published by the Terrene Institute in 1993.

In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society.

Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal.

Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal.

In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society.

Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law.

Though not traditionally thought of as strategic natural resources, glaciers are a crucial part of our global ecosystem playing a fundamental role in the sustaining of life around the world.

Though not traditionally thought of as strategic natural resources, glaciers are a crucial part of our global ecosystem playing a fundamental role in the sustaining of life around the world.

Biologists have made significant advances in our understanding of the Earth's shallow subtidal marine ecosystems, but the findings on these disparate regions have never before been documented and gathered in a single volume.

Fluvial Hydraulics provides a sound qualitative and quantitative understanding of water and sediment flows in natural rivers.

Agricultural droughts affect whole societies, leading to higher food costs, threatened economies, and even famine.

Stochastic Subsurface Hydrogeology is the study of subsurface, geological heterogeneity, and its effects on flow and transport process, using probabilistic and geostatistical concepts.

This book will cover the time span from the first indications of El Nino (May 1997) until its reversal (June 1998).

The vadose zone is the region between ground level and the upper limits of soil fully saturated with water.

Geochemical reaction modeling plays an increasingly vital role in several areas of geoscience, from environmental geochemistry and petroleum geology to the study of geothermal and hydrothermal fluids.

Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea lays down the rules and regulations governing claims to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles for the 130 coastal States and entities that have ratified or acceded to it.

Every year that passes without a tsunami means that we're just that much closer to our next one.

Every year that passes without a tsunami means that we're just that much closer to our next one.

Dead zones are on the rise.

The dynamic, evolving Earth, and the mathematical representation of its geochemical changes are the subject of this timely, helpful handbook.