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Urbanization of the Earth’s population will have increased the Earth’s urban population from less than one billion in 1950 to five billion by 2030. Managing water for this burgeoning urban population is one of the critical needs for humanity. This book uses a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to examine the urban water environment. Water has multiple roles: municipal water supply, aquatic habitat, landscape aesthetics and recreation. Increasingly, urban water is reused, serving multiple purposes. Humans alter the urban hydrologic cycle and the chemical and physical integrity of urban water systems and resources. Some of those changes are beneficial, and others harmful. Understanding those changes and impacts requires expertise and perspective from a wide range of disciplines. Chapter authors represent this diversity of expertise, with expertise in surface and groundwater hydrology, civil and environmental engineering, environmental policy, urban planning, law, geomorphology, and recreation management.

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As pollution from cars, trucks, and land-based stationary sources has been more tightly controlled over the last 40 years, the contribution of ships and port operations to air pollution in port cities has become more important. In the same period, foreign trade has grown dramatically; thus, pollution from shipping and port operations would be growing as a percentage of total emissions, even if the emissions were regulated to the same degree as other sectors. This book provides information regarding pollution from ships and port facilities and discusses some of the measures being implemented and considered by local, state, and federal regulatory agencies. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access. ... Read more

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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.

Each volume contains the contents of all volumes. ... Read more

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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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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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Summer's over and Claire's a bit nervous about starting at a new school. She doesn't care about being popular -- she just wants to fit in.Claire is thankful to have her best friend, Jet. But the girls quickly grow apart when Jet wins a digital camera. Jet's bitten by the shutterbug and seems only interested in snapping photos with the cool kids. Tired of Jet's antics, Claire strikes up a friendship with Sky, a girl from the local Lovesick Lake community. She learns that the water in Sky's lake is undrinkable. The community suspects someone's been secretly dumping waste in it for years. But when the three friends stumble across the polluters' trail, will they be able to put their differences aside in time to save Lovesick Lake?The Claire graphic novels are built on stories of strong friendships and action-packed fun. Young girls will love to share the adventures of Claire and her friends -- and then try the activities at the end of each book! ... Read more

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Will encourage novice readers
You know, I got a good taste of literature (Frankenstein, Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, Dracula) through graphic novels. I'm glad to review yet another graphic novel (the other being Dracula Madness). With so many kids struggling to read at grade level, I highly recommend these new series as they will encourage novice readers.

Claire and The Water Wish is fresh, action-packed and targets the most important thing to girls in this age group - friendship.

Good for Younger Kids
Reviewed by Galia Popov (age 11) for Reader Views (6/09)

"Claire and the Water Wish" is about a girl named Claire and her friend Jet. When Claire moves to the country, she makes best friends with Jet. But when Jet wins a new camera, she seems like she'd rather take pictures of popular kids than hang out with Claire. Claire makes friends with Sky, a girl from Lovesick Lake who's on her team for a project at school. Sky tells Claire that people are dumping in Lovesick Lake, but no one has actually caught them at it. One day, Jet and Sky see some people dumping into the lake. The people chase them, but Jet and Sky get lost. Claire finds them, and in the end the three girls save the day.

I thought that this book was fairly well written, but it was slightly below my age, aimed more towards seven to nine-year-olds. Maybe it's because I'm older than the book's age range, or maybe because "Claire and the Water Wish" is a graphic novel, but I thought that the story was a little too flat and predictable. The characters could have a little more depth, and the plot could be a little more exciting. An example is at the end, when the bad guys are caught. The girls signal a ranger in a helicopter, call the police, fly over to the bad guys, and the police catch them and take them to jail. I would like a more exciting storyline. It would be more interesting if the bad guys escape the first time and have to be caught again. Even so, the book was a pretty good read.

One of the good things about this book is that the illustrations were great, especially in the part where Jet and Claire go to the market. I liked the pictures of stalls and customers, which were interesting because you could see what everyone was selling. I also enjoyed the crafts included at the end.

I think that "Claire and the Water Wish" by Janice Poon would be better for seven to nine-year olds, or any younger kids interested in the environment. Though the story is bland, the illustrations are good enough on their own to make me want to read this book. ... Read more

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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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