Environmental technologies for the sustainable development of the water and energy sectors
Did you know that watching your favourite series on tv or just switching on your laptop for work, requires indirect water consumption? It’s a proven fact that every time we use energy resources,...
Water-Wise Cities and Sustainable Water Systems: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications
Building water-wise cities is a pressing need nowadays in both developed and developing countries. This is mainly due to the limitation of the available water resources and aging infrastructure to...
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...
Alluvial Aquifer Processes
The global population is expected to grow from more than seven billion at present to nine billion by the year 2050. As a result, resource issues are becoming increasingly severe. The questions...
Improving Water Supply Networks: Fit for Purpose Strategies and Technologies
Knowing how to manage the losses from water supply networks and how to get to the next level in bettering your system is a major problem and one that is most common in the majority of water...
Future-oriented technologies and concepts to increase water availability by water reuse and desalination
The pressure on available freshwater resources due to urbanization and climate change impacts is increasing worldwide; so follows the need to explore unconventional resources. Water reuse and...
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...
Guidance on Preparing Water Service Delivery Plans: A manual for small to medium-sized water utilities in Africa and similar settings
There are 2.4 billion people without improved sanitation and another 2.1 billion with inadequate sanitation (i.e. wastewater drains directly into surface waters), and despite improvements over the...
Treatment and Valorisation of Saline Wastewater: Principles and Practice
The treatment and valorisation of saline wastewater, from urban or industrial origin, is a complex issue. Nowadays, salinity constitutes a global issue in the wastewater management, as it is...
Preparing Scheduled Desludging
This book presents a methodology for preparing scheduled desludging schemes in cities. Opening with a description of its definition and principles, this book outlines step by step the preparation...