Hydrology and the hydrosphere

Pollution of waterbodies and the environment by petroleum industry is of particular concern in Nigeria.

This is the only book series devoted to explaining the full range of specialized areas required of water and wastewater plant operators.

The book is structured into six core parts.

This book addresses, reviews and evaluates key themes in organic aquaculture and is set out to show how these relate to the challenges and bottlenecks for a responsible organic aquaculture production in Europe.

The economic paradigms currently dominating the world are not sustainable.

Subduction zones, one of the three types of plate boundaries, return Earth's surface to its deep interior.

A pilot study conducted at the Gilze water treatment plant of Water Supply North West Brabant demonstrated that adsorptive filtration has several potential advantages over floc filtration, namely: longer filter runs due to slower head loss development; better filtrate quality; shorter ripening time; and less backwash water use.

In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world's water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it.

Research on historical earthquakes and tsunamis in the Iberian Peninsula has made great strides in recent years, from diverse scientific fields ranging from geology to archaeology.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the phosphorus (P) removal structure as a new BMP for reducing dissolved P loading to surface waters from non-point source pollution, provide guidance on designing site-specific P removal structures, and provide instruction on use of the design software, "e;Phrog"e; (Phosphorus Removal Online Guidance).

This book highlights the application of Geographical Information System (GIS) and nature based algorithms to solve the problems of water and water based renewable energy resources.

This book is a new and provocative treatment dealing with and defining sustainable pathways for the restoration of the Mississippi Delta.

Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis.

This book presents a historical and ethnographic study of changing mangrove management in northern Vietnam over the past 100 years, grounded in a case study in the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam.

This volume calls upon over a dozen Indus observers to imagine a scenario for the Indus basin in which transboundary cooperation over water resources overcomes the insecurity arising from water dependence and scarcity.

Victoria's reptiles are not often encountered by urban dwellers, with many species now threatened.

Arsenic-contaminated groundwater is considered one of the world's largest environmental health crises, as more than 300 million people in more than one-third of countries worldwide are at risk of groundwater arsenic poisoning.

Entropy Theory and its Application in Environmental and Water Engineering responds to the need for a book that deals with basic concepts of entropy theory from a hydrologic and water engineering perspective and then for a book that deals with applications of these concepts to a range of water engineering problems.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of rivers affected by natural and anthropogenic disturbances in the southern Chile and Patagonia.

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP: 2000-2013) has provided crucial records of past and present processes and interactions within and between the biosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere.

Although microorganisms can be found virtually anywhere on our planet, from clouds to soils to oceans, they are often poorly understood when examining issues related to groundwater and water wells.

A tragic account of the father-son dive team who met with disaster while exploring the wreck of a German U-boat off the coast of New York.

Environmental Careers presents a broad-based, yet concise survey of employment opportunities in the environmental field.

Hydrology covers the fundamentals of hydrology and hydrogeology, taking an environmental slant dictated by the emphasis in recent times for the remediation of contaminated aquifers and surface-water bodies as well as a demand for new designs that impose the least negative impact on the natural environment.

Organotin compounds, used as antifouling biocides since 1960, are chemical compounds that act as endocrine disrupters.

Comprehensive review of effects of climate variability on hydrological and human systems in the Holocene.

Hidden problems, buried deep in the pipe networks of water distribution systems, are very serious potential threats to water quality.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, River and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2023) focusing on broad spectrum of emerging opportunities and challenges on the impact of climate change on water resources.

The slug test can provide valuable information for hydrogeologic investigations ranging from assessments of sites of groundwater contamination to the monitoring of well deterioration through time.

This book is an outcome of the symposium on agricultural water management in Netherlands and discusses the methods that leads to cost effective but environmentally acceptable techniques.

Sea mines have been important in naval warfare throughout history and continue to be so today.

We review using iodine incorporated in calcium carbonate (including biogenic) minerals as a proxy for dissolved oxygen in seawater.

This book describes how psychiatric pharmaceuticals, namely antidepressants, anxiolytics, sedatives and hypnotics are among the most prescribed active substances due to the higher occurrence of psychiatric disorders throughout the world.

Palaeolimnology is one of the most rapidly developing fields of limnology.

This report contains a collection of papers from a workshopStrengthening Science-Based Decision-Making for Sustainable Management of Scarce Water Resources for Agricultural Production, held in Tunisia.

With many worked examples, this book provides step-by-step instruction for all calculations required for wastewater treatment.

The water hyacinth is a disruptive factor in aquatic ecosystem management and ecosystem services, and causes problems in fisheries, transportation waterways, irrigation, hydropower generation, and water resources.

This book is a unified presentation of waves and flows occurring in the atmosphere, oceans, rivers, volcanoes and the mantle, for graduate students and researchers.

In aquatic ecosystems, the oligochaetes are often a major component of the community.

Water and Environment addresses imbalances between availability and demand, degradation of surface and ground waters, inter-sectorial, inter-regional and international competition in water management.

This book integrates a wide range of subjects into a coherent purview of the status of coastal marine science.

This book presents the most recent innovations, trends, concerns and practical challenges, and solutions in the field of water resources for arid areas.

This book highlights ways to evaluate circular economy using global standard and footprints the way global firms are using to ensure the measurement of the impact.

The thermal use of the shallow subsurface is increasingly being promoted and implemented as one of many promising measures for saving energy.

The text concentrates on the infectious viral and bacterial diseases that are most prevalent in aquaculture.

Membranes play a crucial role in ensuring the optimum use and recovery of materials in manufacturing.

What affects the oceans affects terra firma.

This advanced research-oriented volume on sustainable water management covers the latest advances in water purification, treatment, and resource management.