A New Legal Framework for Managing the World's Shared Groundwaters
What are the rules of international water law that govern the use of the transboundary aquifers shared by Palestine and Israel? This book addresses this issue through an interdisciplinary approach...
Soil and Sediment Remediation
Soil and Sediment Remediation discusses in detail a whole set of remediative technologies currently available to minimise their impact.
Technologies for the treatment of...
Biofuels for Fuel Cells
The increasing demand for energy and the related environmental concerns are the main drivers for the strong interest in Biomass Fermentation towards usage in Fuel Cells. The integration of Biomass...
Integrated River Basin Governance
Integrated River Basin Governance - Learning from International Experience is designed to help practitioners implement integrated approaches to river basin management (...
Water Services Management
Water services include water supply, sewerage and stormwater drainage. The facilities needed for these services are pipelines, reservoirs and treatment works; but the service goes beyond the...
River Basin Restoration and Management
River Basin Restoration and Management is the result of two workshops that took place at the 4th IWA World Water Congress: The Restoration of Degraded River Basins and River Basin...
Diffuse Pollution
Diffuse (non-point source) pollution is increasingly being recognised as a major source of water quality problems in both surface and ground water. Indeed, as pollution resulting from point...
Sensor Technology for Water Quality Monitoring: Fiber Optic Sensor
Two methods for the detection of important human pathogens, Cryptosporidium parvum and Helicobacter pylori, were investigated: a fiber optic biosensor, and real time PCR. The mechanism for...
Global Lessons for Watershed Management in the United States
Water resource management in the United States is evolving in the face of continuing challenges to protect water quality, provide adequate quantities of water for competing uses, and protect...
Multiple Stressors
There is a pressing need for developing and testing a general set of theories in order to provide a confident basis for prediction of multiple stressor effects. Confident prediction is central to...