Publications
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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 ...
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 ...
Methods for Faecal Sludge Analysis
(2021)
Faecal sludge management is recognized globally as an essential component of city-wide inclusive sanitation. However, a major gap in developing appropriate and adequate management and monitoring for faecal sludge is the ...
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 ...
Integrated Wastewater Management for Health and Valorization
(2022)
"Adequate wastewater treatment in low to medium income cities worldwide has largely been a failure despite decades of funding. The still dominant end-of-pipe paradigm of treatment for surface water discharge, focusing ...
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 ...
Chemical Oxidation Applications for Industrial Wastewaters
(2010-10-12)
This book covers the most recent scientific and technological developments in the field of chemical oxidation processes applicable for the efficient treatment of biologically-difficult-to-degrade, toxic and/or recalcitrant ...
Membrane Based Point-of-Use Drinking Water Treatment Systems
(2023)
Membrane based PoU water treatment systems are preferred due to shortcomings of other water treatment technologies. This system works without the addition of chemicals, with relatively low energy consumption, and easy and ...
Experimental Methods for Membrane Applications in Desalination and Water Treatment
(2024)
Water quality is a critical issue for the water industry today, and membrane filtration a highly effective treatment used to provide clean water for the global population. Experimental processes are being developed for ...
Rational Design of Next-generation Nanomaterials and Nanodevices for Water Applications
(2016)
Despite the fact that nanotechnology has been present for a few decades, there is a big gap between how nanotechnology is perceived and what nanotechnology can truly offer in all sectors of water. The question to be answered ...
Clean Technologies Toward a Sustainable Future
(2023)
Increasing global population growth and the continued exploitation of land, water and other natural resources is causing the release of harmful gases and toxic compounds into the environment. To combat this pollution and ...
Hydrological Design of Multipurpose Micro-catchment Rainwater Management
(2018)
Rainwater as a resource has been underrated due to scientific misunderstandings about its quality, the lack of hydrologic design tools for small catchments, such as roofs, the preference for large infrastructures, and the ...
Clean Water Using Solar and Wind
(2018-11-15)
The aim of Clean Water Using Solar and Wind is to make water professionals aware of the possibilities that solar photo-voltaic (PV) and wind offer to bring, not only clean energy but also clean water to remote and rural ...
Managing Climate Risk in Water Supply Systems
(2013-02-15)
Water resources systems provide multiple services and, if managed properly, can contribute significantly to social well-being and economic growth. However, extreme or unexpected hydroclimatic conditions, such as droughts ...
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 ...
Large Risks with Low Probabilities
(2017)
This volume contains studies of one particular category of risky situations, namely, those involving highly negative consequences with low probabilities. Situations of this type involve both natural and man-made disasters ...
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 ...
Asset Management of Urban Drainage Systems
(2024)
Asset management issues are and will always be key concerns for many stakeholders in the water sector. Despite this, there is still a lack of awareness and clear guidance on the topic. There has been some focus on the ...
Bioanalytical Tools in Water Quality Assessment
(2021)
The first edition of Bioanalytical Tools in Water Quality Assessment was released in 2012. The field has exploded since and the second edition updates and reviews the application of bioanalytical tools for water quality ...
Tuning Biological Nutrient Removal Plants
(2013)
Tuning Biological Nutrient Removal Plants increases interest in tuning to enhance both performance and capacity, to provide insight into typical plant operating characteristics, and to stimulate operators' interest in ...
Smart Water Utilities
(2016)
Today there is increasing pressure on the water infrastructure and although unsustainable water extraction and wastewater handling can continue for a while, at some point water needs to be managed in a way that is sustainable ...
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 ...
Water Services Management and Governance
(2012-10-14)
This book focuses on water services, including water supply and wastewater services and deals with the connections between these. It covers water supply mainly in urban communities, sanitation and pollution control and ...
A-B processes
(2019)
The principle of the conventional activated sludge (CAS) for municipal wastewater treatment is primarily based on biological oxidation by which organic matters are converted to biomass and carbon dioxide. After more than ...
Quantification and Modelling of Fugitive Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Urban Water Systems
(2022)
With increased commitment from the international community to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from all sectors in accordance with the Paris Agreement, the water sector has never felt the pressure it is now under to ...
Sludge Reduction Technologies in Wastewater Treatment Plants
(2010-10-31)
Sludge Reduction Technologies in Wastewater Treatment Plants is a review of the sludge reduction techniques integrated in wastewater treatment plants with detailed chapters on the most promising and most widespread techniques. ...
Anaerobic Treatment of Domestic Wastewater
(2024)
The main challenge in wastewater treatment is changing the perception of wastewater as a waste product to be treated or disposed of, and instead seeing it as a source of energy and other valuable byproducts. This approach ...
International Rainwater Catchment Systems Experiences
(2020)
Harvesting rain and using it for drinking and domestic use will help to give scattered rural households and under-served city dwellers access to water. The world cannot ignore using rain - as the source of all water. This ...
Applications of Activated Sludge Models
(2015)
In 1982 the International Association on Water Pollution Research and Control (IAWPRC), as it was then called, established a Task Group on Mathematical Modelling for Design and Operation of Activated Sludge Processes. The ...
Resource Recovery from Industrial Wastewater through Microbial Electrochemical Technologies
(2024)
There is currently a critical gap in knowledge regarding the application of microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) in industrial wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Resource Recovery from Industrial Wastewater ...
Réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre des services d'eau et d'assainissement
(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 ...
Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Desalination
(2023)
High-energy consumption is a critical issue associated with seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination, although the SWRO has been regarded as one of the most energy-efficient processes for seawater desalination. This ...
Wealth Creation without Pollution
(2017)
The development of eco-industrial parks and associated ‘ecological industry’ concepts offer progressive integrated approaches to resolve pollution problems from effluents and wastes of all kinds. Most industry however is ...
Embracing Analytics in the Drinking Water Industry
(2022)
Analytics can support numerous aspects of water industry planning, management, and operations. Given this wide range of touchpoints and applications, it is becoming increasingly imperative that the championship and capability ...
Milestones in Water Reuse
(2013)
Milestones in Water Reuse: The Best Success Stories illustrates the benefits of water reuse in integrated water resources management and its role for water cycle management, climate change adaptation and water in the cities ...
Costing Improved Water Supply Systems for Low-income Communities
(2015)
This manual and the free downloadable costing tool is the outcome of a project identified by the Water, Sanitation and Health Programme (WSH) of the World Health Organization (WHO) faced with the challenge of costing options ...
Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain
(2022)
The value chain (VC) system is a key way to address important sanitation technological and institutional gaps in production and service delivery and could constitute a natural platform for development actions and also serve ...
Treatment and Valorisation of Saline Wastewater
(2021)
This book covers the principles and practices of processes and technologies applied for the treatment of saline wastewater with discharge and reuse purpose, and those applied for its valorisation. Saline wastewater was ...