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FROM THE INTRODUCTIONOver the past decade, industrial water pollution control has undergone vast changes. Public Law 92-500 passed in 1972 primarily targeted conventional pollutants such as Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and suspended solids and as a result wastewater treatment plants were designed to meet these objectives. In recent years volatile organics, priority pollutants, aquatic toxicity and some heavy metals have received attention in specific industrial effluents. In some cases nitrogen and phosphorus will have specific effluent limitations. If the wastewater contains volatile organics such as benzene or toluene, these organics must be removed prior to biological treatment or basins must be covered with off-gas treatment. The technology choice to meet these objectives in a cost-effective manner will be site specific. In 1976 EPA established effluent limitations for priority pollutants in the organic chemicals, plastics and synthetic fibre industries (OCPSF). These are pollutant specific guidelines expressed as an effluent concentration. Depending on the specific chemical involved, the biological treatment process or a source treatment technology may provide the most economical solution. Aquatic toxicity poses a major problem in industrial water pollution control. Because it is frequently non-specific it is difficult to identify appropriate cost effective technologies. As a general rule, biological treatment should be the first option with more costly physical chemical technologies employed only in cases where the toxicity-causing chemicals are non-biodegradable. ... Read more

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This book is a collection of papers presented at the 2nd International River Quality Symposium. The papers give case studies of the quality of rivers in different parts of the world, focusing particularly on the polluted Vistula River in Poland and the revived Will amette River in Oregon, USA which was the subject of a major cleaning operation in the 1970s. The book provides valuable information on the quality of rivers in Eastern Europe, particulary Poland. It is timely since, with the collapse of communism, Eastern European countries are faced with tackling huge environmental problems created by the lack of investment in environmental technology. The situation in Poland is contrasted with the USA and UK where water pollution problems have largely been overcome. ... Read more

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The state of the art of the impact assessment of recycled hazardous waste materials on surface and ground waters is presented. The topics include chemodynamics, toxicology, modeling and information systems.

Due to the wealth of information on this topic, the texts of T. Kassim (ed.): Environmental Impact Assessment are published in three separate volumes: vol. 1: Concepts, Methodology and Chemical Analysis; vol. 2: Risk Analysis and vol. 3: Engineering Modeling and Sustainability.

The book serves as a practical conceptual guide for those who have professional responsibility for the monitoring, design, management, or conduct of environmental impact assessment. It is believed that the book will prove useful to the reader who, regardless of disciplinary background, wants to examine in greater detail the kinds of interdisciplinary contributions to contemporary decision-making processes that characterize modern impact assessment project development.

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TThe author explains the complete water cycle and also discusses ocean currents, ocean and lake habitats, and hydroelectricity. He also touches on water pollution and our responsibility to keep our water clean. ... Read more

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Cute little book
My kids both enjoyed listening to the story about water and where it goes and what it does. It's a nice little educational book. ... Read more

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Industrial managers, construction professionals, and municipal employees know they must comply with new Environmental Protection Agency and state storm water regulations--or risk heavy fines and even jail time. This completely updated book gives those who must meet new federal and local standards the tools necessary to satisfy the new requirements fully, efficiently, and economically. It's your best and most complete source of information on actual EPA field enforcement practices;the entire EPA Phase II standard; state-by-state storm water pollution regulations; and more. It's your one-stop source for easy, cost-effective, and fully compliant storm water management--and a volume that will pay for itself many times over. ... Read more

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This book presents papers from an international conference, held in Bonn, Germany in February 2005, that dealt with integrated water resources management in industrialized and developing countries. The papers detail such emerging concepts as blue and green water, virtual water, the water footprints of nations, multi-agent modeling, linkages between water and biodiversity, and social learning and adaptive management.

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Papers presented at the International Symposium of Integrated Approaches to Water Pollution Problems [SISIPPA 89], Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Lisbon, Portugal, June 1989. ... Read more

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Pollution threatens the Laurentian Great Lakes and is a serious problem. This book examines what is known about the major classes of persistent toxic organic pollutants. Agricultural runoff, urban waste, industrial discharge, landfill leachate, and atmospheric deposition, are all to blame. Contamination of the various ecosystems is reviewed, and what is known about the effects of this pollution. This volume provides an invaluable resource for those in environmental research, measurements, and decision making concerning the Great Lakes.

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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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The importance of the political sphere for understanding and solving water sector problems is the basic rationale of this book, which is the outcome of the Fifth Dialogues on Water, organised at the German Development Institute, Bonn. These dialogues, unlike earlier ones, focused on the political processes of policy formulation and the strategic behaviour of the actors involved. Specific attention is devoted to implications for development cooperation.

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Boston Harbor has always been America’s harbor. It served as a colonial gateway to the world, witnessed the Boston Tea Party, and helped Boston transform itself from an outpost of a few hardy settlers into a bustling metropolis and self-proclaimed hub of the universe.

Yet for hundreds of years, Eric Jay Dolin points out, Boston Harbor was also a cesspool. Long before Bostonians dumped tea into the harbor to protest English taxes, they dumped sewage there. As the Boston area grew and prospered, its sewage problems worsened, as did the harbor’s health, to the point where in the 1980s it was considered the most polluted harbor in the country and ridiculed as the "harbor of shame." Then, in one of the most impressive environmental comebacks in American history, Boston Harbor was dramatically cleaned up. All it took was two lawsuits, two courts, dozens of lawyers, the creation of a powerful sewage authority, thousands of workers, millions of labor hours, and billions of dollars.

Sewage management is rarely as compelling and exciting as higher profile environmental issues such as global climate change, preserving endangered species, or protecting tropical rainforests. But it can be, as Dolin shows in this engaging narrative account. Boston’s struggle to deal with its sewage is an epic story of failure and success, replete with colorful characters, political, bureaucratic, and legal twists and turns, engineering feats, and massive amounts of money. In the end, success hinged on the often overlooked yet monumentally important act of responsibly disposing of the waste people produce every day. ... Read more

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History of the Colonization Boston and the Ensuing Water and Sewage Problems
I found this over-view of the history of colonization of Boston and it's ensuing water and sewage problems very interesting as a classic example of a city growing by leaps and bounds without any common sense consideration of how to safely dispose of sewage without contaminating the environment. This study leads right up to the current situation that author Dolin considers "successful" considering the wrenching history of the sewage problems Bostonians had to live with for most of that city's history up until the late 1970's when movements to finally mitigate the harbor pollution finally got off to a slow, but steady start towards secondary sewage treatment. Dolin relates that the current water quality in Boston Harbor is not perfect, but the efforts to clean it up are in full swing and the difference from just 5 to 10 years ago is dramatic.

The legal battles to force mitigation of the harbor pollution are gone over in clinical/ academic detail and become burdensome at points, but the general historical view of causation and remedy are fascinating and extend on to comparisons of other large cities such as London, et al. and how they dealt with the same problems. A few Bostonians used these comparisons in ongoing attempts to nudge the powers-at-be in Boston to copy their examples of clean-up, usually to limited degrees, but after 300 years of haphazard attempts, Bostonians demanded better and finally got it. A good, academic read on sewage mitigation.

Another book on the subject of water pollution and the attempts to clean it up is "The Rivers Keepers" by John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This is the story of efforts to clean up the Hudson River and the establishment of the Waterkeepers movement which has spread to just about all bodies of water in the U.S.- excellent read.

Dry, Academic Overview of the Boston Harbor Clean up
I found this book to be very dry and difficult to read.It does a very poor job at explaining and portraying one of the most contentious periods in Boston history and does an equally poor job of explaining why this project was such an amazing engineering feat.I was also disappointed by the jarring and ramshackle writing style and how the book moves from first person to detached writing and back again.

Basically this is a great story but this book doesn't do a good job at all in telling it. This one is only for hardcore engineers or environmental students, not for those interested in Boston history.

A political history of Boston and its harbor
It's hard to conveniently peg Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive, But Eventually Triumphant History Of Boston Harbor: A Unique Environmental Success Story is at once a political history of Boston and its harbor, as well as a story of urban planning and environmental success. Political Waters charts some stormy seas indeed as Boston spent literally centuries working to clean up its reputation as having one of the nation's most polluted bodies of water. Political Waters presents a semi-scholarly assessment of this process and is a highly recommended addition to Environmental Studies reference collections and reading lists.
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No natural resource issue has greater significance for the future of Texas than water. The state's demand for water for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and recreational uses continues to grow exponentially, while the supply from rivers, lakes, aquifers, and reservoirs is limited. To help Texans manage their water resources today and plan for future needs, one of Texas's top water experts has compiled this authoritative overview of water issues in Texas. Water in Texas covers all the major themes in water management and conservation:• Living with a Limited Resource• The Molecule that Moves Mountains• A Texas Water Journey• The Gulf Shores of Texas• Who's Who in Water• Texas Water Law: A Blend of Two Cultures• Does Texas Have Enough Water?• Planning for the Future• What's in Your Water?• How Much is Water Worth?• Water is Our Legacy Illustrated with color photographs and maps, Water in Texas will be the essential resource for landowners, citizen activists, policymakers, and city planners. ... Read more

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The Latest Tactics and Strategies for Treating Every Kind of Industrial Wastewater

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Index pages missing
The index pages were missing.I am going to contact Amazon if they can send a complete book. ... Read more

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This volume examines the various drivers of global change, including climate change, and the use of agricultural knowledge, science, and technology, as well as the outcomes of global change processes, including impacts on water quality and human well-being. Several authors examine potential policy and institutional solutions afforded by globalization to the challenges ahead, particularly the role of trade policy. Financing water development in a more globalized world and adapting to global warming are also examined.

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This textbook shows students how to examine a water pollution problem and methodically investigate and solve it. It is suitable for those who have a background in basic vertebrate and invertebrate zoology and botany.


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