Biological Control of Water Pollution

✍ Scribed by Joachim Tourbier (editor); Robert W. Pierson, Jr. (editor); Edward W. Furia (editor)

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Part I. A Rationale for the Biological Approach
1. Biological Alternatives to Water Pollution
2. The Economy, Energy, and Clean Water Legislation
3. The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974: A Call for Action
4. The Protection and Improvement of the World's Drinking Water Quality
5. An Environmental Overview
Part II. Limnological Overview
6. Overview of Aquatic Ecosystems
7. Nutrient Cycles in Natural Systems: Microbial Involvement
8. The Role of Aquatic Plants in Aquatic Ecosystems
Part III. Drinking Water Problems
9. Carcinogenic Organic Chemicals in Drinking Water
10. Potential Carcinogenic Hazards Due to Contaminated Drinking Water
11. Groundwater: Fact, Fiction, and Future
12. Comments on the History and Economics of Micropollutants in Drinking Water
13. Sudanese Native Methods for the Purification of Nile Water During the Rood Season
Part IV. Biological Treatment of Wastewater
14. Macrophytes and Water Purification
15. The Potential of Submersed Vascular Plants for Reclamation of Wastewater in Temperate Zone Ponds
16. The Purification of Wastewater with the Aid of Rush or Reed Ponds
17. Application of Vascular Aquatic Plants for Pollution Removal, Energy, and Food Production in a Biological System
18. Land Treatment of Wastewater by Overland Flow for Improved Water Quality
19. Experimental Use of Emergent Vegetation for the Biological Treatment of Municipal Wastewater in Wisconsin
20. The Potential Use of Freshwater Tidal Marshes in the Management of Water Quality in the Delaware River
21. The Use of Bulrushes for Livestock Feed
22. The Use of Sawgrass for Paper Product Manufacture: An Examination of Properties
23. Waste Reclamation in an Integrated Food Chain System
24. Aquaculture as an Alternative Wastewater Treatment System
25. A Proposed Integrated Biological Wastewater Treatment System
26. Sewage Treatment by Controlled Eutrophication Using Algae and Artemia
27. Interference by Blue-Green Algae with Nutrient Recovery in Water Quality Control Schema: Management Implications
28. The Use of Bacteria to Reduce Clogging of Sewer Lines by Grease in Municipal Sewage
29. The Use of the Oxidation Ditch in the United States as a Means of Treating Liquid Waste
Part V. Biological Treatment and Aquifer Recharge
30. Improvement of Wastewater Quality by Movement Through Soils and Aquifers
31. Renovation of Municipal Wastewater for Groundwater Recharge by the Living Filter Method
32. Numerical Models in Groundwater Management
33. The Combination of Biological and Chemical Treatment at the Krefeld Water Treatment Works
34. Water Quality Aspects of Well Recharge with Reclaimed Water, Bay Park, New York
Part VI. Implementation of Alternatives
35. EPA's Response to the Need for Encouragement of Alternative Waste Treatment Techniques
36. Notes on the Implementation of Alternatives
37. Legal and Political Restraints to Implementation of Novel Systems
38. Implementation of Water Quality Plans
39. Implications of Biological Control of Water Pollution Proposals to the Developing Countries
Acknowledgments
Index