Pathways to Water Sector Decarbonisation, Carbon Capture and Utilisation
The water sector is in the middle of a paradigm shift from focusing on treatment and meeting discharge permit limits to integrated operation that also enables a circular water economy via water...
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...
Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Desalination
High-energy consumption is a critical issue associated with seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination, although the SWRO has been regarded as one of the most energy-efficient processes for...
Water Resources: Future Perspectives, Challenges, Concepts and Necessities
Nowadays, novel water resources management strategies have been developed and applied by borrowing new concepts to overcome the water shortage crisis and balance the distribution of water...
Nature Based Solutions for Sustainable Sanitation
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...
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...
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...
A Guide to Understanding Fundamental Principles of Environmental Management: It Ain't Magic: Everything Goes Somewhere
This book uses plain language to introduce the non-expert to the fundamentals of environmental management, without requiring them to have a solid grounding in the basic sciences. The authors...
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,...