Efficient Desalination by Reverse Osmosis: A guide to RO practice
Early applications of desalination were small-scale plants deploying a range of technologies. However with the technological developments in Reverse Osmosis, most new plants use this technology...
Renewal Engineering for Drinking Water Pipelines
The research presented in this report was performed in order to compile and better understand the state of the technology for drinking water pipeline renewal engineering methodologies and...
Costing Improved Water Supply Systems for Low-income Communities: A Practical Manual
This manual and the free downloadable costing tool is the outcome of a project identified by the Water, Sanitation and Health Programme (WSH) of the World Health Organization (WHO) faced with the...
Climate Change, Water Supply and Sanitation: Risk Assessment, Management, Mitigation and Reduction
Climate Change, Water Supply and Sanitation: Risk Assessment, Management, Mitigation and Reduction pulls together the final outcomes and recommendations from the PREPARED project that...
Implementation of Biological Filtration for the Treatment of Cyanobacterial Metabolites
Specific issues investigated in this project were: Identifying the most effective substrate for optimum biofilm formation, and the range of operating conditions for optimum removals to be achieved...
MT-PCR – A rapid, reliable and effective tool for assessing toxic ‘algal’ blooms in Victorian water supplies: aiding protection and preservation
This project addressed a need for a sensitive, accurate and reliable testing method to aid assessment of the toxicity of algal blooms and assist water management. Increasingly, diagnostic dilemmas...
Evaluation and validation of rapid molecular methods for the detection and identification of microorganisms in water - Standard Operating Procedures
Molecular techniques are emerging as a rapid and powerful approach for microorganism detection. This project reviewed the efficacy of PCR assays for Cryptosporidium, Microcystis, adenovirus and...
Greywater Reuse
Greywater Reuse examines the features and implications of greywater reuse scientifically, quantitatively, and thoroughly. Based on the authors’ extensive studies of treatment facilities...