Water Scarcity and Ways to Reduce the Impact

✍ Scribed by Muthu Pannirselvam, Li Shu, Gregory Griffin, Ligy Philip, Ashok Natarajan, Sajid Hussain

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 231
• Series: Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for a Sustainable Future
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Because water access, distribution and quality are the most urgent challenges for societies across the world, this book focuses on the current and future demands and challenges in the areas of water scarcity we may face and possible solutions in terms of technology and management including infrastructure changes that are needed for the future smart cities. Readers of this book shall gain an increased understanding of water supply and its demands and shall learn some of the research trends to overcome global water scarcity and urban growth by creating smart cities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Sustainable Management of Municipal Wastewater Reverse Osmosis Concentrate: Treatment with Biological Activated Carbon Based Processes for Safe Disposal (Linhua Fan, Felicity A. Roddick)....Pages 1-14
Sustainable Wastewater Management Through Decentralized Systems: Case Studies (Ligy Philip, C. Ramprasad, D. Krithika)....Pages 15-45
Nanofiltration of Dye Bath Towards Zero Liquid Discharge: A Technical and Economic Evaluation (Li Shu, Muthu Pannirselvam, Veeriah Jegatheesan)....Pages 47-61
Treating Car Wash Wastewater by Ceramic Ultrafiltration Membranes for Reuse Purposes (Jamie Wills, Shamima Moazzem, Veeriah Jegatheesan)....Pages 63-73
Microalgae as Bio-Converters of Wastewater into Biofuel and Food (Mohammad Raza Siddiqui, Ana Miranda, Aidyn Mouradov)....Pages 75-94
Effect of Hybrid Photocatalysis and Ceramic Membrane Filtration Process for Humic Acid Degradation (Lili Song, Bo Zhu, Veeriah Jegatheesan, Stephen R. Gray, Mikel C. Duke, Shobha Muthukumaran)....Pages 95-113
Potential Use of Biochar from Sugarcane Bagasse for Treatment of Textile Wastewater (Sinem Ograk, Gregory J. Griffin, Muthu Pannirselvam)....Pages 115-133
Disinfection By-products in Recycled Waters (Lydon D. Alexandrou, Barry J. Meehan, Oliver A. H. Jones)....Pages 135-149
Functional Nanoporous Titanium Dioxide for Separation Applications: Synthesis Routes and Properties to Performance Analysis (Andrea Merenda, Lingxue Kong, Bo Zhu, Mikel C. Duke, Stephen R. Gray, Ludovic F. Dumée)....Pages 151-186
Addressing Water Scarcity in Tamilnadu: New Perspective (Ashok Natarajan)....Pages 187-195
Repair or Replace: Technologies Available for Trenchless Remediation of Existing Infrastructure (Peter Marchant)....Pages 197-217
Back Matter ....Pages 219-221

✦ Subjects

Environment; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Waste Management/Waste Technology