Water supply and treatment

Approximately 77 percent of the freshwater used in the United States comes from surface-water sources and is subject to natural organic matter contamination according to the United States Geological Survey.

Arsenic abatement from groundwater in locations with a central water distribution system is relatively simple.

Integrated Assessment of Scale Impacts of Watershed Interventions is the outcome of a multi-disciplinary research team of social scientists, hydrologists (groundwater and surface water), modellers; and bio-physical scientists who have worked together over five years to develop an integrated model of the sustainability of biophysical, economic and social impacts of watersheds.

Many hydrological, geochemical, and biological processes associated with water reclamation and reuse are poorly understood.

Concise and readable, Drinking Water Security for Engineers, Planners and Managers provides an overview of issues including infrastructure planning, planning to evaluate vulnerabilities and potential threats, capital improvement planning, and maintenance and risk management.

Natural disasters, tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods are occurring with increasing frequency.

Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design.

Comprehensive Water Quality and Purification, Four Volume Set provides a rich source of methods for analyzing water to assure its safety from natural and deliberate contaminants, including those that are added because of carelessness of human endeavors.

Twort's Water Supply, Seventh Edition, has been expanded to provide the latest tools and techniques to meet engineering challenges over dwindling natural resources.

Groundwater Hydrology of Water Resource Series - Water is an essential environmental resource and one that needs to be properly managed.

Water Supply has been the most comprehensive guide to the design, construction and operation of water supply systems for more than 40 years.

Liquid Membranes: Principles and Applications in Chemical Separations and Wastewater Treatment discusses the principles and applications of the liquid membrane (LM) separation processes in organic and inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, gas separation, and wastewater treatment.

Chemistry of Advanced Environmental Purification Processes of Water covers the fundamentals behind a broad spectrum of advanced purification processes for various types of water, showing numerous applications through worked examples.

This comprehensive reference combines sampling and analysis of wildland water in one text.

This book is part of a series on sustainability.

Membranes Technology ebook Collection contains 4 of our best-selling titles, providing the ultimate reference for every filtration and separation engineer's library.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

This work provides those involved in water purification research and administration with a comprehensive resource of methods for analyzing water to assure its safety from contaminants, both natural and human caused.

This volume contains selected papers from the ``Workshop on the Statistical Aspects of Water Quality Monitoring', held on October 7-10 1985, at the National Water Research Institute in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

Reservoir Capacity and Yield

Pipeline Design for Water Engineers

Multiobjective Optimization in Water Resources Systems

Computer Systems and Water Resources

Major advancement in the U-Th measurement techniques since the 1990's have resulted in new opportunities for the use of these nuclides to probe into aquatic processes in greater detail.

Principles of Water Quality Control is the definitive student text in its field for 25 years, this new edition takes an environmental perspective that is highly relevant in the context of current public policy debates.

Industrial desalination of sea and brackish water is becoming an essential part in providing sustainable sources of fresh water for a larger number of communities around the world.

It is difficult to imagine anything more important to the human population than safe drinking water.

Rapid evolution is taking place in the water market world wide - driven by increased consumer demand allied to the rarefraction of clean water.

This Handbook is an authoritative reference for process and plant engineers, water treatment plant operators and environmental consultants.

Industry and commerce use vast amounts of water and in some parts of the world water is becoming a scarce commodity.

Water Use Management, and Planning in the United States is designed with new college classes on water resources in mind.

This original volume draws on the author's own research experiences in Ireland, Britain, France, Canada, and the United States to present a guide of coastal environments for applications of shoreline and environmental management.

UV-Visible Spectrophotometry of Waters and Soils, Third Edition presents the latest information on the use of UV spectrophotometry for environmental quality monitoring.

There is increasing political and environmental pressure on industry to clean up the water which it uses in many processes, and to re-use this water where possible.

Decision-Making in Water Resource Policy and Management: An Australian Perspective presents the latest information in developing new decision-making processes.

The World Health Organization in 2004 estimated approximately 1.

The Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) paradigm has been worldwide recognized as the only feasible way currently available to ensure a sustainable perspective in planning and managing water resource systems.

Microirrigation has become the fastest growing segment of the irrigation industry worldwide and has the potential to increase the quality of food supply through improved water fertilizer efficiency.

Wetland Systems to Control Urban Runoff integrates natural and constructed wetlands, and sustainable drainage techniques into traditional water and wastewater systems used to treat surface runoff and associated diffuse pollution.

Membrane systems are finding increasing application worldwide in the purification of potable and industrial water, and their design and use is set to grow considerably in years to come.

In today's chemically dependent society, environmental studies demonstrate that drinking water in developed countries contains numerous industrial chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and chemicals from water treatment processes.

The changes in temperature and rainfall that will come with climate change combined with populations that are growing but also becoming more condensed will put a great deal of stress on our wastewater systems.