Sustainable Industrial Water Use: Perspectives, Incentives, and Tools
Unique among books on the topic, this new anthology brings together the voices of the executives, plant managers, investors, inventors, regulators, policymakers and advocates leading industry to...
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...
The Cultural Dynamics in Water Management from Ancient History to the Present Age
The book examines systematically the role of ancient culture and civilization in water management. It underlines that culture has been the driving force for effective water management...
Effectiveness of Disinfection on Wastewater Treatment Plant Discharges: chemical disinfection with performic acid
The tightening of the bacteriological quality thresholds for bathing water following the revision of the European Directive (Directive 2006/7/CE, 2006) raises a problem for cities or urban...
Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination: Assessment & Pre-treatment of Fouling and Scaling
This textbook covers the fundamentals of fouling and scaling in reverse osmosis systems. It includes theory and practice of pre-treatment, fouling and scaling in reverse osmosis applied for...