Publications
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Algal Systems for Resource Recovery from Waste and Wastewater
(2023)
This book provides comprehensive insights on existing technologies and up-to-date advances in the field of waste management and treatment using algal based technologies via different approaches and systems. Coverage ...
Nanotechnology in Industrial Wastewater Treatment
(2015-01-15)
Nanotechnology in Industrial Wastewater Treatment is a state of the art reference book. The book is particularly useful for wastewater technology development laboratories and organizations. All professional and academic ...
Tratamiento biológico de aguas residuales
(2017)
Over the past twenty years, the knowledge and understanding of wastewater treatment has advanced extensively and moved away from empirically based approaches to a fundamentally-based first principles approach embracing ...
Sewage Treatment Plants
(2015)
Sewage Treatment Plants: Economic Evaluation of Innovative Technologies for Energy Efficiency aims to show how cost saving can be achieved in sewage treatment plants through implementation of novel, energy efficient ...
Resilience of Water Supply in Practice
(2021)
Water Resilience in Practice is co-edited by two experienced water sector professionals and reviews resilience in water supply service delivery in the form of a series of case studies from different economic contexts – ...
Detection of Pathogens in Water Using Micro and Nano-Technology
(2012)
Detection of Pathogens in Water Using Micro and Nano-Technology aims to promote the uptake of innovative micro and nano-technological approaches towards the development of an integrated, cost-effective nano-biological ...
Public Involvement in Knowledge Generation
(2019)
Public Involvement in Knowledge Generation is an Open Access co-publication with KWR.
Wetland Technology
(2019)
Water quality standards across the world are being re-written to promote healthier ecosystems, ensure safe potable water sources, increased biodiversity, and enhanced ecological functions. Treatment wetlands are used for ...
Chemistry of Ozone in Water and Wastewater Treatment
(2012)
Even though ozone has been applied for a long time for disinfection and oxidation in water treatment, there is lack of critical information related to transformation of organic compounds. This has become more important in ...
Sanitation and Hygiene in Africa: Where do we Stand?
(2013)
"The Third African Sanitation and Hygiene Conference was held in Kigali, Rwanda in July 2011. It was hosted by the Government of the Republic of Rwanda, and the African Minister s Council on Water. The meeting attracted ...
Manual Sobre los Derechos Humanos al Agua Potable y Saneamiento para Profesionales
(2019)
"Also available in Portuguese (Manual Sobre os Direitos Humanos à Água Potável e Saneamento para Profissionais), French (Manuel des Droits de l'Homme à l'Eau Potable et à l'Assainissement à l’intention des Praticiens) and ...
Pathways to Water Sector Decarbonization, Carbon Capture and Utilization
(2022)
The water sector is in the middle of a paradigm shift from focusing on treatment and meeting discharge permit limits to integrated operation that also enables a circular water economy via water reuse, resource recovery, ...
Computational Hydraulics
(2014)
Computational Hydraulics introduces the concept of modeling and the contribution of numerical methods and numerical analysis to modeling. It provides a concise and comprehensive description of the basic hydraulic principles, ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage Systems
(2012-09-14)
Impacts of Climate Change on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage Systems provides a state-of-the-art overview of existing methodologies and relevant results related to the assessment of the climate change impacts on urban ...
Nanobiohybrids for Advanced Wastewater Treatment and Energy Recovery
(2023)
In the quest for sustainable solutions, a groundbreaking innovation emerges: Nanobiohybrids for Advanced Wastewater Treatment and Energy Recovery. This compelling title delves into the forefront of integrated environmental ...
Groundwater Assessment and Management for sustainable water-supply and coordinated subsurface drainage:
(2022)
Groundwater beneath cities is important. Water utilities and private abstractors use is it as a secure source of water-supply and municipal authorities have to cope with it when planning sanitation and using underground ...
Technological Solutions for Water Sustainability: Challenges and Prospects
(2023)
The book provides an overview of technical sustainable water management in the Global South, mainly in India. The book is structured in five sections: (1) current state and challenges, (2) new age materials in (waste) water ...
Rainwater Tank Systems for Urban Water Supply
(2015-05-15)
Rainwater tank systems have been widely adopted across the world to provide a safe local source of water in underdeveloped rural areas, and as a substitution for mains water for non potable end uses in water stressed urban ...
Reducing the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Water and Sanitation Services
(2022)
The scientific evidence contained in the three volumes of the 6th IPCC report (AR6), published between August 2021 and April 2022, are another reminder of the urgent need to respect the 2015 Paris Agreement. 195 countries ...
Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia
(2014-02-14)
Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia presents the major achievements in the scientific fields of water supply technologies and management throughout the millennia. It provides valuable insights into ancient water ...
Photocatalytic Water and Wastewater Treatment
(2022)
This book aims to provide an overview of how photocatalysis can be employed in water and wastewater treatment. Each chapter will attend to a different area of interest, starting with an introduction on the fundamentals of ...
Water Stewardship
(2020)
Achieving true wholesome sustainability requires a change of heart. Hence this book starts in the heart. It asks the timely question of ‘how do we become true water stewards?’ The transformation to a new sustainable practice ...
Manual on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation for Practitioners
(2016)
"The Manual highlights the human rights principles and criteria in relation to drinking water and sanitation. It explains the international legal obligations in terms of operational policies and practice that will support ...
Metrology in Urban Drainage and Stormwater Management
(2021)
This book presents the advancements made in applied metrology in the field of Urban Drainage and Storm water Management over the past two decades in scientific research as well as in practical applications. Given the ...
Reservoir Eutrophication
(2014)
The overall objective of Reservoir Eutrophication: Preventive Management is to present the environmental and anthropogenic factors associated with the process of eutrophication and algal blooms in the Rio Verde reservoir ...
Water, Energy, and Environment
(2019-03-15)
The book presents a clear explanation of the inextricable linkages among water, energy, and environment issues – the water/energy/environment nexus. Early chapters discuss the current water, energy, and environment contexts ...
Preparing Urban Water Use Efficiency Plans
(2013)
Many communities are facing water scarcity in developing and developed countries alike. There are numerous publications and on-going research studies documenting the changes in our climate and potential for worsening ...
Treatment Wetlands
(2017)
Overview of Treatment Wetlands; Fundamentals of Treatment Wetlands; Horizontal Flow Wetlands; Vertical Flow Wetlands; French Vertical Flow Wetlands; Intensified and Modified Wetlands; Free Water Surface Wetlands; Other ...
Natural Water Treatment Systems for Safe and Sustainable Water Supply in the Indian Context
(2016)
"Natural Water Treatment Systems for Safe and Sustainable Water Supply in the Indian Context is based on the work from the Saph Pani project (Hindi word meaning potable water). The book aims to study and improve natural ...
Faecal Sludge Management Systems
(2014)
It is estimated that literally billions of residents in urban and peri-urban areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America are served by onsite sanitation systems (e.g. various types of latrines and septic tanks). Until recently, ...
Coastal Lagoons in Europe
(2016)
"Lagoons represent nearly 13% of the shoreline globally and around 5% in Europe. Coastal lagoons are shallow water bodies separated from the ocean by a barrier (e.g., narrow spit), connected at least intermittently to the ...
Benchmarking of Control Strategies for Wastewater Treatment Plants
(2014)
Wastewater treatment plants are large non-linear systems subject to large perturbations in wastewater flow rate, load and composition. Nevertheless these plants have to be operated continuously, meeting stricter and stricter ...
Jar Tests for Water Treatment Optimization
(2022)
The book is intended as a handbook providing detailed instructions for the correct conducting of jar tests, which are needed for the optimisation of the coagulation/flocculation process. It contains the essential theoretical ...
Resource Recovery from Water
(2022)
Throughout history, the first and foremost role of urban water management has been the protection of human health and the local aquatic environment. To this end, the practice of (waste-)water treatment has maintained a ...
Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture
(2022)
The book brings together a range of leading scholars and practitioners to compile an international account of water allocation policies supporting a transition to sustainable water use in regions where agriculture is the ...
Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management
(2013-02-01)
Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management sets up a comprehensive view of the resources involved in urban water management. It explores the potential of source separation and decentralization to ...
Environmental Aspects of Zoonotic Diseases
(2012-01-31)
Environmental Aspects of Zoonotic Diseases provides a definitive description, commentary and research needs of environmental aspects related to zoonotic diseases. There are many interrelated connections between the environment ...
Gestion des Boues de Vidange
(2018)
"This book is the French Translation of Faecal Sludge Management: Systems Approach for Implementation and Operation.
It is estimated that literally billions of residents in urban and peri-urban areas of Africa, Asia, ...
FISH Handbook for Biological Wastewater Treatment
(2009-07-14)
The FISH Handbook for Biological Wastewater Treatment provides all the required information for the user to be able to identify and quantify important microorganisms in activated sludge and biofilms by using fluorescence ...
Treatment of Micropollutants in Water and Wastewater
(2010-08-14)
Treatment of Micropollutants in Water and Wastewater gives a comprehensive overview of modern analytical methods and will summarize novel single and hybrid methods to remove continuously emerging contaminants - micropollutants ...