Small Water Supplies : A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780415282826 / Angielski / Twarda / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are approximately 50,000 small water supplies in the UK alone, and thousands more Worldwide. Dealing with idiosyncratic characteristics of small water supplies requires specialist knowledge. Small Water Supplies: A Practical Guide provides invaluable guidance for their appropriate management. This book covers how small, independent supplies differ from public water supplies, and the health dangers they pose, along with water sampling and risk assessment. An explanation of different types of supplies including their construction and treatment systems, as well as common problems...
There are approximately 50,000 small water supplies in the UK alone, and thousands more Worldwide. Dealing with idiosyncratic characteristics of small...
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690,82 zł |
Urban Flood Management : Introduction - 1st International Expert Meeting on Urban Flood Management
ISBN: 9780415359986 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With growing concern about the increasing amount of urban flooding and ever-more devastating effects, this book details not only established flood prevention strategies but also new approaches to prediction and resilience.
With growing concern about the increasing amount of urban flooding and ever-more devastating effects, this book details not only established flood pre...
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537,31 zł |
Water Pricing and Public-Private Partnership
ISBN: 9780415371216 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is no question that water pricing and public-private partnership can improve water management practices in the future. However, it is not the panacea as the proponents argue, nor the disaster as its opponents forecast. "Water Pricing and Public Private" "Partnership" provides a comprehensive and objective assessment as to what works, where, why and under what conditions, as well as what does not work and why. It also assesses the social, economic, equity and institutional implications.
The book provides an in-depth analysis and assessment of the main issues and constraints on... There is no question that water pricing and public-private partnership can improve water management practices in the future. However, it is not the pa...
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665,24 zł |
Effect of Operational Variables on Nitrogen Transformations in Duckweed Stabilization Ponds
ISBN: 9780415375542 / Angielski / Miękka / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In response to the urgent need to develop and improve low cost technologies for wastewater treatment, this thesis explores how to treat wastewater with duckweed in a pond system, a solution that contributes both environmental protection and food production. The book reports on the effect of different operational variables, like anaerobic pre-treatment, the combination of algae and duckweed ponds and pond depth. It discusses improved nitrogen removal through the combination of duckweed ponds with algae ponds. It also demonstrates how duckweed pond systems could be designed with shallow depth...
In response to the urgent need to develop and improve low cost technologies for wastewater treatment, this thesis explores how to treat wastewater wit...
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434,91 zł |
Urban Groundwater, Meeting the Challenge : IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 8
ISBN: 9780415407458 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Broadly divided into five sections, this book covers recharge mechanisms and the urban water balance, urban recharge management, sewer exfiltraion, assessment of contaminant impacts, and urban aquifer management. It explores the scientific and technical progress made in areas such as the urban water balance, contaminant source characterization and transport, aquifer vulnerability mapping, artificial recharge and the control of groundwater in deep excavations, roads, and tunnels. The book goes on to discuss how to integrate these advances into effective, holistic, plans for pro-active,... Broadly divided into five sections, this book covers recharge mechanisms and the urban water balance, urban recharge management, sewer exfiltraion,... |
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588,47 zł |
Groundwater for Sustainable Development : Problems, Perspectives and Challenges
ISBN: 9780415407762 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Groundwater is the most important source of domestic, industrial, and agricultural water and also a finite resource. Population growth has created an unprecedented demand for water, with the situation most critical in the developing world, where several million people depend on contaminated groundwater for drinking purposes. Geogenic contaminants, such as arsenic and fluoride at toxic levels, pose major environmental risks and endanger public health. This book is a collection of papers providing a multi-disciplinary overview for scientists and professionals involved in the sustainable... Groundwater is the most important source of domestic, industrial, and agricultural water and also a finite resource. Population growth has created ... |
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1074,61 zł |
Wetlands: Monitoring, Modelling and Management
ISBN: 9780415408202 / Angielski / Twarda / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wetlands are complex and dynamic ecological systems incorporating two important, inter-linked components: hydrology and vegetation. This volume highlights current research on the construction of a vigorous and spatially-explicit model, which will describe the dynamics of wetland vegetation in relation to environmental variables, including hydrological regimes, sediment type, and nutrient availability. It features new information on ecological functions, environmental services, and societal values associated with wetlands, highlighting how to turn this knowledge into practical benefits for...
Wetlands are complex and dynamic ecological systems incorporating two important, inter-linked components: hydrology and vegetation. This volume highli...
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895,50 zł |
Groundwater Pollution in Africa
ISBN: 9780415411677 / Angielski / Twarda / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of thirty peer-reviewed articles, this book provides a first glimpse into groundwater pollution in Africa. It begins with a broad overview of the situation in Africa highlighting topics of special significance to the continent and including broad country perspectives. The book includes specific case studies that substantiate the general perspectives. It presents a range of diverse hydrogeological settings, with associated pollution sources, their causes and consequences across the continent and methodologies to understand impacts and improve the situation. The book is a valuable...
A collection of thirty peer-reviewed articles, this book provides a first glimpse into groundwater pollution in Africa. It begins with a broad overvie...
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895,50 zł |
Water Treatment Unit Processes : Physical and Chemical
ISBN: 9780824706951 / Angielski / Twarda / 1266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unit processes comprise the components of a treatment train used to remove contaminants from water. An understanding of these processes provides the foundation for continued learning and for designing treatment systems. The principles of unit processes also apply to ambient environmental contexts, such as transport of groundwater contaminants and stream pollution. Unit process theory is one of the core areas of an environmental engineering curriculum, and is important for the design of water treatment systems. This text provides grounding in the underlying principles of unit processes in a...
Unit processes comprise the components of a treatment train used to remove contaminants from water. An understanding of these processes provides the f...
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741,99 zł |
Stormwater Effects Handbook : A Toolbox for Watershed Managers, Scientists, and Engineers
ISBN: 9780873719247 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A stand-alone working document, Stormwater Effects Handbook: A Toolbox for Watershed Managers, Scientists, and Engineers assists scientists and regulators in determining when stormwater runoff causes adverse effects in receiving waters. This complicated task requires an integrated assessment approach that focuses on sampling before, during, and after storms. The Handbook supplies assessment strategies, sample testing and collection methods, and includes illustrative figures and tables.The authors introduce an innovative design that can be tailored to address a wide range of environmental...
A stand-alone working document, Stormwater Effects Handbook: A Toolbox for Watershed Managers, Scientists, and Engineers assists scientists and regula...
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1279,30 zł |
Water Governance for Sustainable Development : Approaches and Lessons from Developing and Transitional Countries
ISBN: 9781844073191 / Angielski / Twarda / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Good management of water resources has proven, in practice, as difficult to achieve as it is eagerly sought. This book examines the changes in governance, institutions, economics and policies of water. It demonstrates that the new policies and legal frameworks have been difficult to implement and often fall short of initial expectations.
Good management of water resources has proven, in practice, as difficult to achieve as it is eagerly sought. This book examines the changes in governa...
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665,24 zł |