Effective Cross-Border Monitoring Systems for Waterborne Microbial Pathogens
This book provides a real-world analysis of how to quantify and prioritize water-based microbial threats to human health, how to design data collection systems that truly support...
Advanced Water Treatment of Estuarine Water Supplies
Estuarine waters are an important source of drinking water for people living along the coasts. These waters tend to exhibit high concentrations of natural organic matter (NOM), bromide, salts,...
Bioassessment: A Tool for Managing Aquatic Life Uses for Urban Streams (Research Digest)
This WERF sponsored research addresses the utility of bioassessment for managing aquatic life uses in urban and/or urbanizing catchments. Heavily urbanized catchments...
Factors for Success in Developing Use Attainability Analysis
A Use Attainability Analysis (UAA) is a process to review and potentially modify a waterbody’s designated uses, as embodied in the state water quality standards. A UAA...
The Adaptiveness of IWRM
The Adaptiveness of IWRM provides new insights and knowledge on the challenges and solutions that current water management faces in a situation of complexity and uncertainty....
Restoring Floodplains in Europe
This book addresses the complex institutional dimensions to restoring floodplains. Despite the recent surge of interest in restoring floodplains among policy and research circles...
Landscape-use optimisation with regards to the groundwater resources protection in mountain hardrock areas
This report assesses the degree of interference of human activities with the hydrosphere in mountain-zones, all located in hard-rock areas of different countries in the European Union. Each of the...
A Peer Review of the City of Lincoln Nebraska Salt Creek Site-Specific Ammonia Water Quality Criteria
This report is the summary of a portion of a larger-scale project titled Salt Creek Water Quality Studies (SCWQS) performed by the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, for an approximate...
Navigating the TMDL Process: Sediment Toxicity
A key step in the development of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) allocations for water bodies impaired due to sediment toxicity is the identification of chemicals responsible for toxicity. ...
Bioavailability and Effects of Ingested Metals on Aquatic Organisms
Laboratory toxicity studies and a caged bivalve field study complemented by computer modeling were conducted to investigate the significance of effects on aquatic organisms due to dietary exposure...