Academic : Earth Sciences : Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering : Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes

Affordable and effective domestic wastewater treatment is a critical issue in public health and disease prevention around the world particularly so in developing countries which often lack the financial and technical resources necessary for proper treatment facilities. This practical guide provides state-of-the-art coverage of methods for domestic wastewater treatment and provides a foundation to the practical design of wastewater treatment and re-use systems. The emphasis is on low-cost low-energy low-maintenance high-performance 'natural' systems that contribute to environmental sustainability by producing effluents that can be safely and profitably used in agriculture for crop irrigation and/or in aquaculture for fish and aquatic vegetable pond fertilization. Modern design methodologies with worked design examples are described for waste stabilization ponds wastewater storage and treatment reservoirs; constructed wetlands upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors biofilters aerated lagoons and oxidation ditches. This book is essential reading for engineers academics and upper-level and graduate students in engineering wastewater management and public health and others interested in sustainable and cost-effective technologies for reducing wastewater-related diseases and environmental damage. more...

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Written by experienced experts in the field, this extensive text discusses the current state of onsite technologies and their wide-scale use in combating the common problems associated with conventional septic tank and drain field systems. more...

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This book is the result of the international symposium, "Establishment and Evaluation of Advanced Water Treatment Technology Systems Using Functions of Complex Microbial Community", organized in 2000 at the University of Tokyo. The volume presents the most recent progress in application of microbial community analysis, health-related microorganisms management, nutrient removal, waste sludge minimization and materials recovery, and water management in tropical countries. Included in this work are the following major topics in wastewater treatment: application of various innovative techniques of molecular biology such as FISH, DGGE to microbial community analysis of various types of wastewater treatment; microbial aspect of biological removal of nitrogen and phosphorus; emission of nitrous oxide during nitrogen transformation; reduction of sludge production in the wastewater treatment process using membrane and material recovery of biopolymer and cell of photosynthetic bacteria. Health-related microbiology in water supply and water management using recent innovative molecular biological tools is presented and health risk management is discussed. The practical application of wastewater treatment in developing countries, especially tropical countries is also reviewed. Researchers in the field of environmental engineering and applied microbiology, and practical engineers who wish to learn the most recent progress in the microbiological aspect of water and wastewater management, will find this book a useful tool. more...

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Based on each of the author's nearly half-century of experience in a field that is over a century old, this text provides the basic theoretical principles underlying current practice and the latest applications in wastewater treatment. Coverage includes several types of aeration, clean water testing and quality assurance, and system operation and m more...

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This text is a collection of reviews of global problems of diffuse water pollution from agriculture, which affects the water quality of rivers, lakes, resevoirs and the oceans. It is aimed at researchers and advanced level students as a reference book. more...

Price: $175.00