Iwa Publishing imprint: 28 books

Phosphorus: Polluter and Resource of the Future

Removal and Recovery from Wastewater

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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,...

Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment

Fundamentals and Applications

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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) rely on the efficient generation of reactive radical species and are increasingly attractive options for water remediation from a wide variety of organic micropollutants of human health and/or environmental concern. Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment...

Hydrology

Principles and Processes

by M. Robinson, R. C. Ward
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: November 15, 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 now located in business parks and industrial estates, with relatively few...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

Wastewater and Biosolids Management covers a wide range of current, new and emerging topics in wastewater and biosolids. The book addresses the theoretical and practical aspect of the reuse and looks to advance our knowledge on wastewater reuse and its application in agricultural production. The book...

Hazardous Pollutants in Biological Treatment Systems

Fundamentals and a Guide to Experimental Research

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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

Hazardous pollutants are a growing concern in treatment engineering. In the past, biological treatment was mainly used for the removal of bulk organic matter and the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus. However, relatively recently the issue of hazardous pollutants, which are present at very low concentrations...
by Philippe Marin, Tom Williams, Jan Janssens
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

Scientific and Technical Report No. 24 Performance-Based Contracts (PBC) for Improving Utilities Efficiency: Experiences and Perspectives is a compendium of articles written by members of the PBC taskforce. It focuses on new approaches without delegated management to private operator i.e. service...

Hydrology

Principles and Processes

by M. Robinson, R. C. Ward
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

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

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....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

This book introduces the 3R concept applied to wastewater treatment and resource recovery under a double perspective. Firstly, it deals with innovative technologies leading to: Reducing energy requirements, space and impacts; Reusing water and sludge of sufficient quality; and Recovering resources...
by Chongrak Polprasert, Thammarat Koottatep
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

This fourth edition of Organic Waste Recycling is fully updated with new material to create a comprehensive and accessible textbook: - New chapter on constructed wetlands for wastewater and faecal sludge stabilization. - New sections on: waste recycling vs. climate change and water; faecal sludge...

Integrated Water Resources Management in Water-scarce Regions

Water Harvesting, Groundwater Desalination and Water Reuse in Namibia

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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....
by Mooyoung Han, DucCanh Nguyen
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...
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