Applied Sciences category: 551 books
Hydrology
Principles and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The book comprises nine chapters, with seven core chapters dealing in detail with the basic principles and processes of the main hydrological components of the water cycle: precipitation, interception, evaporation, soil water, groundwater, streamflow and water quality. It takes a broadly non-mathematical...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Arsenic in drinking water derived from groundwater is arguably the biggest environmental chemical human health risk known at the present time, with well over 100,000,000 people around the world being exposed. Monitoring the hazard, assessing exposure and health risks and implementing effective remediation...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
From the beginning of 21st century, there has been an awareness of risk in the environment along with a growing concern for the continuing potential damage caused by hazards. In order to ensure environmental sustainability, a better understanding of natural disasters and their impacts is essential....
Integrated Water Resources Management in Water-scarce Regions
Water Harvesting, Groundwater Desalination and Water Reuse in Namibia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
The book consolidates the transdisciplinary research of the project “CuveWaters: Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Northern Namibia (Cuvelai Basin) in the SADC-Region” funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and undertaken from 2004 to 2015 in Namibia....
Phosphorus: Polluter and Resource of the Future
Removal and Recovery from Wastewater
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Phosphorus has always been both a curse and a blessing. On the one hand, it is essential for all life forms and cannot be replaced by anything. On the other hand, wastewater treatment aims to minimize phosphorus concentrations in wastewater in order to minimize its discharge into rivers and lakes,...
by Mooyoung Han, DucCanh Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 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 small number of successful cases reported. This book summarizes 17 years of...
by Bambos Charalambous, Chrysi Laspidou
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The book provides a scientific approach into appraising Intermittent Water Supply (IWS) on a global scale through the analysis of available information and data based on a structured methodology for estimating the population affected by IWS worldwide both by country and by geographical regions. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Forward osmosis (FO) is an emerging membrane technology with a range of possible water treatment applications (desalination and wastewater treatment and recovery). Recent Developments in Forward Osmosis Processes provides an overview of applications, advantages, challenges, costs and current knowledge...
by Mohmmad Khaja Shareef
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
AUTHOR’S FOREWORD:This Generation of 21st Century is Boon for Human Life. In Each and Every Steps of Life, their needs are fulfilled by Science and Technology. In our Daily Life, Science has played Every Role. Every Second of Life Science is with us.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:NAME: MOHAMMAD KHAJA SHAREEFEDUCATIONAL...
Greenhouse Gas Emission and Mitigation in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
Fundamentals and a Guide to Experimental Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Advanced wastewater treatment processes and novel technologies are adopted to improve nutrient removal from wastewater so as to meet stringent discharge standards. Municipal wastewater treatment plants are one of the major contributors to the increase in the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and...
Socio-ecological Change in Rural Ethiopia
Understanding Local Dynamics in Environmental Planning and Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Socio-ecological change is characterized by interactions among a wide range of actors with different interests, needs and capabilities. Environmental planning has to contribute to the coalescence of local realities, multi-stakeholder land-use planning and policy making. Contributing to this discourse,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 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 (e.g. floods, technological hazards, economic crises, epidemics, etc.). Such...
Activated Sludge Separation Problems
Theory, Control Measures, Practical Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Activated Sludge Separation Problems: Theory, Control Measures, Practical Experiences, Second Edition, describes the most common activated sludge separation problems and explains the main reasons for the growth of the different filamentous microorganisms in activated sludge. The book summarizes the...
Customer Experience Management for Water Utilities
Marketing urban water supply
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Customer Experience Management for Water Utilities presents a practical framework for water utilities to become more focussed on their customers. This framework is founded on Service-Dominant Logic, a contemporary theory of marketing that explains value creation as a process of co-creation between...