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Basic Earth Guides eBook Series

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  • Water and Your Health

    Clean Water Is Vital to Your Health

    by Beatrice Trum Hunter ...
    Series series Basic Earth Guides
    What is in the water you drink every day? Do you know if you have been swallowing arsenic, hormone disrupters, radon, Giardia lamblia, and cryptosporidium bacteria? Learn how to get your water tested. There are many ways to improve the quality of water coming from your tap. There are water filters, water softeners, bottled water, and sometimes reclaimed water. All the questions and answers about ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Singapore Water Story

    Sustainable Development in an Urban City State

    by Cecilia Tortajada, Yugal Joshi, Asit K. Biswas ...
    Singapore´s journey during the past 45 years is an outstanding example that, in spite of multiple hardships, pragmatic policies, clear visions, long-term planning, forward-looking strategies and political will, as well as a relentless urge to improve, can result in strong foundations for sustainable development.This book describes the journey of Singapore´s development and the fundamental role ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

    by Peter Waller, Muluneh Yitayew ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This textbook focuses specifically on the combined topics of irrigation and drainage engineering. It emphasizes both basic concepts and practical applications of the latest technologies available. The design of irrigation, pumping, and drainage systems using Excel and Visual Basic for Applications programs are explained for both graduate and undergraduate students and practicing engineers. The ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Ecosystem Services and River Basin Ecohydrology

    Edited by Luis Chicharo, Felix Müller, Nicola Fohrer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an integrated analysis of the methodologies and main processes occurring at the entire river basin, from upstream until the coast, by merging the biological and hydrological processes with the social and economic components, thus providing an integrated framework for river basin management, integrating the ecohydrology approach with the ecosystem services concept. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Water Diplomacy

    A Negotiated Approach to Managing Complex Water Networks

    by Shafiqul Islam, Lawrence E. Susskind ...
    Series series RFF Press Water Policy Series
    Water is the resource that will determine the wealth, welfare, and stability of many countries in the twenty-first century. This book offers a new approach to managing water that will overcome the conflicts that emerge when the interactions among natural, societal, and political forces are overlooked. At the heart of these conflicts are complex water networks. In managing them, science alone is ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The MBR Book

    Principles and Applications of Membrane Bioreactors for Water and Wastewater Treatment

    by Simon Judd ...
    The MBR Book covers all essential aspects of membrane bioreactors in water and wastewater treatment, including the working principles of MBR technologies. The book aims to separate science from engineering, in an attempt to avoid confusion and to help readers understand the ideas of MBR. The text is divided into five chapters; the membrane and biological aspects are discussed in chapter 2 along ... Read more

    $186.29 USD

  • Control and Instrumentation for Wastewater Treatment Plants

    by Reza Katebi, Michael A Johnson, Jacqueline Wilkie ...
    Series series Advances in Industrial Control
    The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies…, new challenges. Much of this development work resides in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Water Policy in Texas

    Responding to the Rise of Scarcity

    Edited by Ronald C. Griffin ...
    Series series RFF Press Water Policy Series
    As a water-scarce state with deep cultural attachments to private property rights, Texas has taken a unique evolutionary path with regard to water management. This new resource surveys past and current challenges for managing both groundwater and surface water, telling a comprehensive story about water policy in Texas, and identifying opportunities for improving future governance.Texas is the U.S. ... Read more

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  • Influence of Traffic and Land Use on Urban Stormwater Quality

    Implications for Urban Stormwater Treatment Design

    by Janaka M.A. Gunawardena, An Liu, Prasanna Egodawatta, Godwin A. Ayoko, Ashantha Goonetilleke ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a detailed analysis in relation to pollutant processes and transport pathways encompassing atmospheric pollutants, atmospheric deposition and build-up on road surfaces of traffic generated key pollutants. The research study undertaken by the authors created extensive knowledge relating to the relevant processes and establishing their relationships as a chain of processes. The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Flotation Technology

    Volume 12

    Edited by Lawrence K. Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, Donald B. Aulenbach, William A. Selke ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The past 30 years have seen the emergence of a growing desire worldwide that positive actions be taken to restore and protect the environment from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution – air, water, soil, and noise. Since pollution is a direct or indirect consequence of waste, the seemingly idealistic demand for “zero discharge” can be construed as an unreal- tic demand for zero waste. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, Theory and Design Examples, Volume 1

    Principles and Basic Treatment

    by Syed R. Qasim, Guang Zhu ...
    This book will present the theory involved in wastewater treatment processes, define the important design parameters involved, and provide typical values of these parameters for ready reference; and also provide numerical applications and step-by-step calculation procedures in solved examples. These examples and solutions will help enhance the readers’ comprehension and deeper understanding of the ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Bio- and Nanosorbents from Natural Resources

    Edited by Shivani Bhardwaj Mishra, Ajay Kumar Mishra ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book reviews the work in the field of nanoadsorbents derived from natural polymers, with a special emphasis on materials finding application in water remediation. It includes natural materials both with an organic or an inorganic skeleton, from which the nanomaterials can be made. Those nanomaterials can therefore be used to reinforce other matrices and in their pristine form have an ... Read more

    $89.09 USD