wastewater management Books

This new AWWA standard describes the essential or critical requirements for the effective operation and management of a wastewater treatment plant. It defines the minimum requirements for the effectiveoperation and management, including water quality, system management programs, and operation and maintenance of facilities.This standard can be ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

This book reveals the power of engaging the public when communicating the value of water when it involves wastewater, stormwater and watersheds. Through stories of success and why communications can fail, this book is written for wastewater utilities, watershed stewards and stormwater managers, engineers, operators, stakeholders, elected ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Aggregate benchmarking data provides one framework for an individual utility to track its goals and improvement. Use of benchmarking data, or initiating the process of performance measurement, can be key to performance improvement. Efficient and effective improvements are necessary for utilities to meet customer expectations, manage rates, and ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

The following AWWA Standards will be effective May 2017:ANSI/AWWA B200-17 Sodium Chloride (January 24, 2017)ANSI/AWWA C224-17 Nylon-11-Based Polyamide Coatings and Linings for Steel Water Pipe and Fittings (January 3, 23017)ANSI/AWWA C602-17 Cement-Mortar Lining of Water Pipelines in Place (January 24, 2017)ANSI/AWWA G520-17 Wastewater Collection ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Aggregate benchmarking data provides one framework for an individual utility to track its goals and improvement. Use of benchmarking data, or initiating the process of performance measurement, can be key to performance improvement. Efficient and effective improvements are necessary for utilities to meet customer expectations, manage rates, and ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

  Most of the technological developments relevant to water supply and wastewater date back to more than to five thousand years ago. These developments were driven by the necessity to make efficient use of natural resources, to make civilizations more resistant to destructive natural elements, and to improve the standards of life, both at public ...

By IWA Publishing

This book evaluates the applicability of national water quality criteria, as well as the methods to modify those criteria, to effluent-dependent, effluent-dominated, and ephemeral waters in the arid and semi-arid regions of the Western United States. This work builds upon earlier findings of the Arid West Water Quality Research Project, ...

By Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)

The Guidelines on Municipal Wastewater Management are a practical guide for decision-makers and professionals on how to plan, design, and finance appropriate and environmentally sound municipal wastewater discharge and treatment systems. It contains chapters on (i) an enabling policy environment for sustainable wastewater management, (ii) ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Drawing on the authors´ combined experience of more than 30 years, Advanced Onsite Wastewater Systems Technologies explores use of these technologies on a wide-scale basis to solve the problems associated with conventional septic tank and drain field systems. The authors discuss a regulatory and management infrastructure for ensuring long-term, ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

    Is sewer-based wastewater treatment really the optimal technical solution in urban water management? This paradigm is increasingly being questioned. Growing water scarcity and the insight that water will be an important limiting factor for the quality of urban life are main drivers for new approaches in wastewater management. Source Separation ...

By IWA Publishing

This issue describes the multiple linkages between rural and urban areas, with papers drawn from 13 nations. A large and growing proportion of rural households have urban components to their livelihoods, while most rural households rely on urban areas for access to markets and services. Many urban households have rural components to their ...

By Earthprint Ltd

In many parts of the world sewage is discharged directly into open water without treatment, threatening productivity and biodiversity of the world’s oceans and causing serious human health problems. In response the UNEP/GPA has developed training for municipal wastewater managers, jointly with the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Aggregate benchmarking data provides one framework for an individual utility to track its goals and improvement. Use of benchmarking data, or initiating the process of performance measurement, can be key to performance improvement. Efficient and effective improvements are necessary for utilities to meet customer expectations, manage rates, and ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

The conference was held at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia in December 1997. This volume contains papers selected from the papers presented at the conference after a thorough review process. As such it is a valuable source document for all who are involved in working towards sustainable ...

By Earthprint Ltd

This is a practical handbook providing a step-by-step approach to the techniques used for characterizing wastewater sources and investigating sites where collection, treatment and reuse/disposal technologies will be installed. It is intended to help enable local implementation of on-site and decentralized wastewater management system (DWMS)for ...

By IWA Publishing

Managers and operators of water and wastewater systems face complex issues on many different fronts. In response to this, CWWA has undertaken the provision of assistance to managers and operators through a series of briefing notes on current management and other topics surrounding their activities that are national in nature or character (i.e., ...

By Canadian Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA)

The most common activated sludge operating problems causing poor plant performance are related to solids separation. Especially common are bulking and foaming. Without a proper scientific foundation to support the efforts of wastewater treatment plant management, many attempts to thwart bulking and foaming have ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

The Canadian Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA), with the support of Environment Canada, has released a Directory of Sources of Contaminants Entering Municipal Sewer Systems. The Directory is aimed at helping to identify the potential industrial, commercial and institutional sources of contaminants entering municipal sewage treatment plants ...

By Canadian Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA)

You can download the ebook free of charge. The central objective of the International Year of Sanitation was to put the global community on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals MDG sanitation target.However, one year later, it is still difficult to keep sanitation high on the agenda, while practical action is required to encourage ...

By IWA Publishing

Wastewater disposal by marine outfalls is proven and effective and is a reliable and cost effective solution with minimal environmental impacts. The design and siting of submarine outfalls is a complex task that relies on many disciplines including oceanography, civil and environmental engineering, marine biology, construction, economics, and ...

By IWA Publishing