Water Resource Management Issues-Basic Principles and Applications

✍ Scribed by Louis Theodore (Author); R. Ryan Dupont (Author)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2019
• Leaves: 445
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drinking Water Safety: Basic Principles and Applications, examines the technical and scientific, as well as regulatory, ethical, and emerging issues of pollution prevention, sustainability, and optimization for the production and management of safe drinking water to cope with environmental pollution, population growth, increasing demand, terrorist threats, and climate change pressures. It presents a summary of conventional water and wastewater treatment technologies, in addition to the latest processes.

Features include:

 Provides a summary of current and future of global water resources and availability.

 Summarizes key U.S. regulatory programs designed to ensure protection of water quality and safe drinking water supplies, with details on modern approaches for water utility resilience.

 Examines the latest water treatment technologies and processes, including separate chapters on evaporation, crystallization, nanotechnology, membrane-based processes, and innovative desalination approaches.

 Reviews the specialized literature on pollution prevention, sustainability, and the role of optimization in water treatment and related areas, as well as references for further reading.

 Provides illustrative examples and case studies that complement the text throughout, as well as an appendix with sections on units and conversion constants.

✦ Table of Contents

SECTION I Overview

Chapter 1Glossary of Terms

Chapter 2Historical Perspective

Chapter 3 Water Properties

Chapter 4Water Chemistry

Chapter 5Environmental Regulatory Framework

Chapter 6The Clean Water Act

Chapter 7The Safe Drinking Water Act

Chapter 8Water Monitoring and Analysis

SECTION II Water Resources

Chapter 9Water Resources of the United States

Chapter 10Global Water Resources

SECTION III Water Treatment Technologies

Chapter 11Drinking Water Treatment

Chapter 12Municipal Wastewater Treatment

Chapter 13Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Chapter 14Evaporation

Chapter 15Membrane Separation Processes

Chapter 16Crystallization

Chapter 17Nanotechnology

SECTION IV The Future

Chapter 18New Options for Water Desalination

Chapter 19Terrorism Considerations

Chapter 20The Pollution Prevention Approach

Chapter 21Sustainability

Chapter 22The Role of Optimization

Chapter 23Ethical Considerations

Chapter 24Future U.S. Water Security