Clean Technologies Toward a Sustainable Future: Physicochemical, Biochemical and Biotechnological Approaches
Increasing global population growth and the continued exploitation of land, water and other natural resources is causing the release of harmful gases and toxic compounds into the environment. To...
Technological Solutions for Water Sustainability: Challenges & Prospects - towards a water-secure India
The book provides an overview of technical sustainable water management in the Global South, mainly in India. The book is structured in five sections:
- Current state and challenges,...
Intermittent Water Supply: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions
Intermittent Water Supply is common in the majority of countries in South Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. There are different factors that cause intermittency in water systems...
Strengthening Systems and Realising Human Rights: Strategies to Progress Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This book explores two frameworks for progressing structural change that supports safe, universal and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): systems strengthening and the human rights to...
Membrane based Point-of-Use Drinking Water Treatment System
Membrane based PoU water treatment systems are preferred due to shortcomings of other water treatment technologies. This system works without the addition of chemicals, with relatively low energy...
Water Management Addressing Societal and Climate Change Challenges
Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences the earth's ecosystem and thus people's livelihoods and well-being. Globally, 83% of all disasters have been caused by extreme...
Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain: The role of the sanitation economy
The value chain (VC) system is a key way to address important sanitation technological and institutional gaps in production and service delivery and could constitute a natural platform for...
Clean Water Using Solar and Wind: Outside the Power Grid (Persian Translation)
Solar photo-voltaic (PV) and wind offer to bring both clean energy and clean water to remote regions and peri-urban areas in the world, outside the conventional electric grids. One out of seven...
Implementing the Water-Energy-Food- Ecosystems Nexus and Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
The book’s primary intention is to serve as a roadmap for professionals working in developing countries interested in the Nexus Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) approach. The book shows a multi...
Wetland Technology: Practical information on the design and application of treatment wetlands (Hindi Translation)
Water quality standards across the world are being re-written to promote healthier ecosystems, ensure safe potable water sources, increased biodiversity, and enhanced ecological functions....