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Featured books
Microplastics in Water and Wastewater
This book covers the topic of microplastics in water and wastewater. The chapters start with introductory issues related to the growing interest in the scientific community on microplastics and...
Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation of Activated Sludge Systems - Second Edition
Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation of Activated Sludge Systems – Second Edition provides, from the process engineering perspective, a comprehensive and up-to-date...
Biological Wastewater Treatment: 2nd edition
The first edition of this book was published in 2008 and it went on to become IWA Publishing’s bestseller. Clearly there was a need for it because over the twenty years prior to 2008, the...
Sludge Thermal Hydrolysis: Application and Potential
Thermal hydrolysis is revolutionizing wastewater treatment. Current treatment methods have evolved little since pioneering work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Subsequently, most...
Improving Water Governance in Kathmandu: Insights from Systems Thinking and Behavioural Science
The global water and sanitation community is currently wrestling with the policy implications of two important realizations. The first is that it is quite possible for cities to actually run out...
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Forthcoming books
Water-Wise Cities and Sustainable Water Systems: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications
Building water-wise cities is a hot topic nowadays in both developed and developing countries. This is due to the limitation of the available water resources to meet the needs of fast urbanization...
Methods for Faecal Sludge Analysis
The importance and need for faecal sludge management has been recognised worldwide. One major gap in developing appropriate and adequate faecal sludge treatment and monitoring techniques is the...
Resource Recovery from Water: Principles and Application
Throughout history, the first and foremost role of urban water management has been the protection human health and the local aquatic environment. To this end, the practice of (waste-)water...
Design Guidelines for Membrane Diffusion and the MABR: A New Paradigm in Gas Transfer for Resource Recovery
The main energy demands at Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRFs) is associated with the aeration of aerobic processes which alone accounts for over 50% of the total energy used (EPA, 1989)). ...
Rainwater For Drinking: Science, Technology and Case Studies
Both quantitative and qualitative problems in drinking water supply occur due to higher water demand, water pollution and emerging pollutants in developing countries as well as in developed...
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New books
Water and Environmental Challenges in a Changing World
Today, multi-disciplinarity is the key to tackle challenges for the sustainable management of water resources, especially considering the increasing complexity in the water world. It is thus...
Improving Water Governance in Kathmandu: Insights from Systems Thinking and Behavioural Science
The global water and sanitation community is currently wrestling with the policy implications of two important realizations. The first is that it is quite possible for cities to actually run out...
We Need to Change to Solve the Water Crisis: Humanity is not a Plague: How 10 Billion People can Exist Together
We need to change to solve the water crisis. It is impossible for 10 billion people to exist together on this Earth – as predicted for the year 2100 – unless the ricer part of the world no longer...
Financing Water Supply, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Challenges in EU Member States and Policy Options
The OECD and the Directorate-General for Environment, the European Commission department responsible for EU policy on the environment, joined forces to examine current and future water-related...
Water Stewardship
Achieving true wholesome sustainability requires a change of heart. Hence this book starts in the heart. It asks the timely question of ‘how do we become true water stewards?’ The transformation...
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The Secret Handbook of the Blue Circle
Concept Development and Scientific Editing: Despo Fatta-Kassinos
The book was inspired by the scientific work carried out by the research group of Nireas International...
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Biological Wastewater Treatment: 2nd edition
The first edition of this book was published in 2008 and it went on to become IWA Publishing’s bestseller. Clearly there was a need for it because over the twenty years prior to 2008, the...
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A-B processes: Towards Energy Self-sufficient Municipal Wastewater Treatment
The principle of the conventional activated sludge (CAS) for municipal wastewater treatment is primarily based on biological oxidation by which organic matters are converted to biomass and carbon...
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