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61. Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water (Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Series)
by American Water Works Association, James Edzwald
Hardcover: 1696 Pages (2010-12-03)
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Asin: 0071630112
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The definitive water quality and treatment resource--fully revised and updated

Comprehensive, current, and written by leading experts, Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water, Sixth Edition covers state-of-the-art technologies and methods for water treatment and quality control. Significant revisions and new material in this edition reflect the latest advances and critical topics in water supply and treatment. Presented by the American Water Works Association, this is the leading source of authoritative information on drinking water quality and treatment.

NEW CHAPTERS ON:

  • Chemical principles, source water composition, and watershed protection
  • Natural treatment systems
  • Water reuse for drinking water augmentation
  • Ultraviolet light processes
  • Formation and control of disinfection by-products

DETAILED COVERAGE OF:

  • Drinking water standards, regulations, goals, and health effects
  • Hydraulic characteristics of water treatment reactors
  • Gas-liquid processes and chemical oxidation
  • Coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, and flotation
  • Granular media and membrane filtration
  • Ion exchange and adsorption of inorganic contaminants
  • Precipitation, coprecipitation, and precipitative softening
  • Adsorption of organic compounds by activated carbon
  • Chemical disinfection
  • Internal corrosion and deposition control
  • Microbiological quality control in distribution systems
  • Water treatment plant residuals management
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62. Mineral and Water Resources of Arizona: The Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 180 1969
by Arizona Bureau Of Mines
 Paperback: Pages (1969)

Asin: B003370QLU
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63. Mineral and Water Resources of Utah
by U.S. Geological Survey
 Paperback: Pages (1964)

Asin: B000ELBNRO
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64. Water Centric Sustainable Communities: Planning, Retrofitting and Building the Next Urban Environment
by Vladimir Novotny, Jack Ahern, Paul Brown
Hardcover: 624 Pages (2010-10-12)
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Asin: 0470476087
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The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc.  Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled.  This book will be the first to capture all of the current work on this idea in a single, integrated, plan for designing the water-centric cities of the future.  From new construction to the retrofitting of existing systems, this book presents the case for a new urban relationship to water, one with a more sustainable connection to the environment and the hydrological cycle.  Through case studies of successfully planned and built systems around the world, the book will educate the reader about the need for a new approach to urban water management, and make the case that these changes are not only possible but imperative. ... Read more


65. Agricultural Use of Groundwater: Towards Integration between Agricultural Policy and Water Resources Management (Economics, Energy and Environment)
Paperback: 320 Pages (2010-11-02)
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Groundwater is endangered and polluted in several ways.Conservation and better management of this invisible resource shouldbe a key ingredient of sustainable water policies. This is especiallytrue in areas, such as many Mediterranean regions, which are alreadyexposed to scarcity problems and which are likely to experienceincreasing competition between freshwater uses and users. Agricultureis an important user of groundwater not only in terms of abstractions,but also in terms of generation and release of pollutants.Agricultural policies, traditionally directed towards otherobjectives, are beginning to pay more attention to environmentalconsiderations. However more effective initiatives are required toreduce the pressure upon groundwater resources and to achieve a betterintegration between agricultural and environmental policies.
This book has been developed from three workshops held as part of theEU Concerted Action SAGA, "Sustainable Agricultural Use of Aquifers inSouthern Europe: Integration between Agricultural and Water ManagementPolicies" (FAIR5-CT97-3673). The Concerted Action and the workshopsbrought together researchers working in different but complementaryfields, in order to get a picture of the state-of-the art aboutinterlinkages between agriculture and groundwater, as well a criticalreview of alternative regulatory approaches and policy instrumentsaimed at improving groundwater management. ... Read more


66. Water Institutions: Policies, Performance and Prospects (Water Resources Development and Management)
Paperback: 210 Pages (2010-11-02)
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Asin: 3642062776
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This is a global survey and assessment of the structure, evolution, and performance of water institutions – administration policies and regulatory practices – in regional, national, and international settings. The coverage includes analysis and discussion of the rationale for institutional innovations, based on case study findings; specific suggestions for sustainable institutional design; and recommendations for implementing institutional reforms.

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67. Water: Use Less-Save More: 100 Water-Saving Tips for the Home (The Chelsea Green Guides)
by Jon Clift, Amanda Cuthbert
Paperback: 80 Pages (2007-09-05)
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Asin: 1933392738
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WATER: USE LESS—SAVE MORE
THE CHELSEA GREEN GUIDES—A NEW SERIES OF POCKET-SIZED BOOKS TO HELP SAVE THE EARTH!

Did you know that Americans now use 127 percent more water than we did in 1950? Or that about 95 percent of the water entering our homes goes down the drain? Our population is growing, our climate changing, and our lifestyles demand more and more water. This book includes one hundred tips for conserving water in the home and garden. Following just a few will reduce your consumption of water, save money, and save the environment. Also available:
ENERGY: USE LESS—SAVE MORE
COMPOSTING: AN EASY HOUSEHOLD GUIDE
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE: AN EASY HOUSEHOLD GUIDE
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68. Multiobjective optimization in water resources systems, Volume 3: The surrogate worth trade-off method (Developments in Water Science)
Hardcover: 214 Pages (1975-01-15)
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Isbn: 0444413138
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69. Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West, Second Edition
by Norris Hundley Jr.
Paperback: 433 Pages (2009-05-15)
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Asin: 0520260112
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Back in print for the first time in over ten years, this classic account of the numerous struggles--national, state, and local--that have occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s is thoroughly expanded and updated to trace the continuing battles raging over the West's most valuable, and contentious, resource. ... Read more


70. Flat Water: A History of Nebraska and Its Water (Resource Report, No 12, March 1993)
by Robert D. Kuzelka
Paperback: 292 Pages (1993-03)
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Asin: 1561610011
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71. Water Policy in Australia: The Impact of Change and Uncertainty (Rff Press) (Issues in Water Resource Policy)
by Lin Crase
Hardcover: 280 Pages (2008-02-26)
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Asin: 1933115580
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Few policy areas in recent history have the attention of the Australian public and polity as much as those relating to water. Water Policy in Australia considers the current policy reform agenda from agricultural, environmental, and cultural perspectives. It presents a comprehensive account of the country's critical water issues and provides expert perspectives from behavioral and institutional economists, engineers, hydrologists, sociologists, and water law specialists.

The environment can no longer support Australia's legacy of institutions, norms, and values relating to the exploitation of water resources. Until the 1980s, the engineer was "king," and policymakers viewed water as an endless resource for driving economic growth. However, in the last twenty years, policymakers have been forced to acknowledge that it is not possible to perpetually supply more water at a low cost. Consequently, the country has begun to focus on water resource management through legislative and institutional change -- attempting to allocate water in a more economically efficient and socially and environmentally acceptable manner.

Water Policy in Australia provides insight into the challenges of institutional change, as well as valuable lessons on the design of property rights for complex resources. The editor and contributors look beyond recent reform efforts and address the hydrological, biophysical, economic, and social factors at play in Australia. The book addresses pertinent issues, such as irrigation in the Murray-Darling basin, one of Australia's largest drainage divisions; the progression from common law riparian rights to share-based entitlements that encourage sustainable water use; and the potential outcomes of the recent National Water Initiative, a wide-ranging strategy to improve water management and simultaneously maintain healthy groundwater and river systems.

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72. Globalization, Water, & Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity (School of American Research Advanced Seminar)
Paperback: 336 Pages (2005-07-15)
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Asin: 1930618581
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This book is about crime and passion, life and death, lofty goals and squalid realities. It is a book about water. Global disparities in health and access to water are two major threats to world stability. As international contracts and corporate agreements divert water from small communities to provide for larger cities, from households to supply agribusiness, conflicts sharpen among local communities, national governments, and international agencies such as the World Bank and the International Development Bank over the basic resources to support human life. In this book, leading anthropologists illuminate the global political inequities and resource management techniques that cause children to die and adults to sicken. Drawing on expertise in medical and ecological anthropology, the contributors challenge and deepen our understanding of the management, sale, and conceptualization of water as it affects human health. Designed for use by policymakers as well as researchers and students, the essays present complex realities in clear, accessible terms. ... Read more


73. Water Resource Systems Planning and Analysis
by Daniel P. Loucks, Jery R. Stedinger, Douglas A. Haith
 Hardcover: 559 Pages (1981-03)
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Isbn: 0139459235
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74. Advances in Water and Wastewater Treatment (ASCE Book Series on Environmental and Water Resources Engineering)
Paperback: 585 Pages (2004-07-01)
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Advances in Water and Wastewater Treatment provides state-of-the-art information on the application of innovative technologies for water and wastewater treatment with an emphasis on the scientific principles for pollutant or pathogen removal. Described in detail are the practice and principles of wastewater treatment on topics such as: global warming, sustainable development, nutrient removal, bioplastics production, biosolid digestion and composting, pathogen reduction, metal leaching, secondary clarifiers, surface and subsurface constructed wetland, and wastewater reclamation. Environmental engineers and scientists involved in the practice of environmental engineering will benefit from the basic principles to innovation technologies application. Topics include: watershed management, atrazine control, radon removal, pathogen removal, disinfection technologies, control of disinfection by-products, and management of water treatment plant residuals. ... Read more


75. Groundwater Hydrology (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Series)
by Herman Bouwer
 Hardcover: 480 Pages (1978-01)
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Asin: 0070067155
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76. Water Resources Atlas of Florida
 Hardcover: 312 Pages (1998-08)
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77. Water Management in 2020 and Beyond (Water Resources Development and Management)
Hardcover: 270 Pages (2009-06-18)
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Asin: 3540893458
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Water is intertwined in the daily life of humans in countless ways. The importance of water as a driver for health, food security, and quality of life and as a pillar for economic development is unique. As water affects human lives, the mankind also effects the hydrological cycle, in all dimensions from the local to the global scale. Food production accounts for 90% of water use in developing countries. Hydropower production evokes emotions; yet sustainable energy production is among cornerstones of economic development. The damages caused by floods and droughts are escalating all over the world. The human impacts on ecosystems are increasing as well. Water is largely a political good since a bulk of the mankind lives in river basins shared by two or more nations.
These complexities are approached in the book in depth. The analyses include consideration of how developments in seemingly unrelated processes and sectors such as globalisation, free trade, energy, security, information and communication revolutions, health-related issues such as HIV/AIDS, as well as emerging developments in sectors that are linked more conventionally to water, such as population growth, urbanisation, technological development, agriculture, infrastructure, energy, management of water quality and ecosystem health, are likely to affect water management in the future. For the first time, a pragmatic attempt is make to define a realistic framework for water management in 2020 with leading experts from different parts of the world as well as different disciplines.

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78. Privatization of Water Services in the United States: An Assessment of Issues and Experience
by Committee on Privatization of Water Services in the United States, National Research Council
Hardcover: 164 Pages (2002-08-16)
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Asin: 0309074444
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Evaluates the fiscal and policy implications of privatization, scenarios in which privatization can be a viable alternative. ... Read more


79. Chemistry of Water Treatment, Second Edition
by Samuel D. Faust, Osman M. Aly
Hardcover: 600 Pages (1998-07-01)
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Asin: 1575040115
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This second edition demonstrates how chemistry influences the design of water treatment plants and how it should influence the design.Historically, water treatment plants have been designed from hydraulic considerations with little regard to chemical aspects. The many chemical reactions used for removal of pollutants from water simply cannot be forced to occur within current designs. This book re-examines this traditional approach in light of today's water quality and treatment.Will current water treatment processes be sufficient to meet future demands or will new processes have to be devised? Chemistry of Water Treatment assesses the chemical and physical efficacies of current processes to meet the demands of the Safe Drinking water Act, providing expert information to persons responsible for the production of potable water into the next century. ... Read more


80. Water Consciousness
Paperback: 200 Pages (2008-09-01)
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Asin: 0975272446
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Water Consciousness is designed to change the way people think about water. It explores all aspects of the water crisis and what we can do about it. Compelling contributions by Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, Wenonah Hauter, Sandra Postel, Tony Clarke and other top environmental writers explain the problems and inspire readers to action. The book contains over 50 stunning photographs and a quiz to find out your own water footprint. Beautifully designed to be accessible to readers, it provides essays on privatization, bottled water, conservation, appropriate technology, lessons from indigenous cultures, and an argument for the need for new public policy on the right to water.
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5-0 out of 5 stars A "Sea Change"
I chose to use this book as the required text for my college-level course about sustainable water management because it gives a good overview of the challenges we face regarding water management. Even more importantly, though, it helps the reader understand that we need to change our paradigm about water (and life) in order to manage it in unity with equity for all beings.

4-0 out of 5 stars Accessible
This book consists of a number of essays on water in a variety of situations around the world.There was not as much science as I would have liked in most of the essays, but they were definitely accessible and understandable for the lay reader on the important issues currently facing us in our use and management of water.Presents water issues as a problem in their own right and in the context of global warming and human health.I believe the title could have been better, it sounds a little new agey, but I think they were referring to the fact that we tend to take water for granted and increased water awareness is needed.

5-0 out of 5 stars Water Neutral
Kudos to the authors and editor of Water Consciousness.I found this book gave a wide angle view of the world water situation and an equally diverse and expansive set of solutions.As an artist,living in the arid Southwest,I was intrigued by the chapter on water neutrality and green design.The example of a law office in Florida that has incorprated a "Living Machine" into it's architecture seemed especially exciting to me.That they were able to cut their water use by 60% and do so through a 2 story waterfall and plant-filled atrium seemed to me to be the most elegant of solutions.

5-0 out of 5 stars The most important book on the most important crisis we face (or aren't facing)
In the middle of September of 2008, as the Senate of the United States was pondering an energy bill, all 100 Senators were invited to speak at a Bipartisan Energy Summit. With a national election less than two months away, you may imagine the posturing. But you might not have anticipated this minute-long question.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator from Rhode Island:

WHITEHOUSE: Gentlemen, we're in the middle of a near total mortgage system meltdown in this country. We have a health care system that burns 16 percent of our GDP, in which the Medicare liability alone has been estimated at $34 trillion. We're burning $10 billion a month in Iraq.

This administration has run up $7.7 trillion in national debt, by our calculation. And there is worsening evidence every day of global warming, with worsening environmental and national security and economic ramifications. In light of those conditions, do any of you seriously contend that drilling for more oil is the number one issue facing the American people today?

(Long silent pause during which nobody answers.)

WHITEHOUSE: No, it doesn't seem so.

I watched this remarkable moment as I was reading 'Water Consciousness', a book about a crisis that just possibly muscles oil --- and everything else --- aside as the biggest threat to life as we know it. News to you? It certainly would be to our nation's leaders. But consider some facts:

-- Right now, 1.3 billion people have no access to clean water and 2.5 billion lack adequate sewage or sanitation. The demand for water doubles every 20 years. At this rate, demand for fresh water will outpace supply by 50% --- in less than 20 years.

-- Yes, the earth is mostly water, but 97% of the earth's water is salty. All freshwater-dependent life shares 1% of the earth's water.

-- 70% of the water in America we use goes to agriculture.

--- That third-of-a-pound burger? It takes 600 gallons of water to grow the corn that feeds the cow that produces just that third of a pound of meat.

-- To sustain life, we each need 13 gallons of water a day. In the United States, we each use about 150 gallons.

-- Three out of four Americans drink bottled water. One out of five Americans drinks only bottled water.

-- National Climate Data Center officials say that 43% of the United States is in "moderate to extreme drought."

-- More than 50% of the water that American households use goes for lawns, gardens and pools.

In short, we are wasting a resource we can't live without. We are in crisis. And we have not declared any level of emergency.

This is not to say we're lost. Smart, serious essays by experienced professionals explain the problem and present some savvy solutions. If you're better read than this water user, perhaps you already know about the importance of watersheds and acequias (communal irrigation systems) and cisterns that collect rainwater --- but let me confess, I read with a pen in hand, and marked a lot. You may not like Big Government; you need to know the argument for a federal trust fund for water.

And in these pages you can learn what you, as an individual, can do. Calculate your water footprint. Rethink that lawn. Get a front-loading washing machine. Stop buying gourmet water; purify tap water at home and carry it around in non-toxic bottles.

A Goldman Sachs analyst predicts that the "water business could become the oil business of the decade from 2020 to 2030." Whatever your politics, you really don't want that to happen. So either read two hundred pages of this picture-and-text book or start looking for a second home that has its own water supply. Because you don't want to be sitting on the sidelines, thirsty, as a Senator desperately tries to talk sense to his/her colleagues in 2025.

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