wastewater management Books and Publications

Guidelines on Municipal Wastewater Management

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 ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management

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 ...

By IWA Publishing

Advanced Onsite Wastewater Systems Technologies

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 ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Proceedings of the International Regional Conference on Environmental Technologies for Wastewater Management: IETC Report 7

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

How to Design Wastewater Systems for Local Conditions in Developing Countries

management system (DWMS)for wide scale use in development settings. How to Design Wastewater Systems ...

By IWA Publishing

Improving Municipal Wastewater Management in Coastal Cities

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 ...

By Earthprint Ltd

AWWA Utility Benchmarking: Performance Management for Water and Wastewater

Utility managers can use the data and analyses in this report to determine how their utility’s performance compares to the water or wastewater industry in five areas of operations: Organizational Development, Customer Relations, Business Operations, Water Operations, and Wastewater ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Members' Briefing Book - Current National Issues and Topics Concerning Water and Wastewater Management in Canada

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 ...

By Canadian Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA)

Communicating Water's Value Part 2: Stormwater, Wastewater & Watersheds

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, ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

AWWA G510-13 Standard for Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations and Management

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 effective operation and management, including water quality, system management programs, and operation and ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Integrated Urban Water Resources Management

Growing populations and rising standards of living exert stress on water supply and the quality of drinking water. Some of these pressures can be reduced by demand management and water and wastewater reuse. In wastewater management, new challenges are caused by new chemicals of concern, including endocrine ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Integrated Urban Water Resources Management

Growing populations and rising standards of living exert stress on water supply and the quality of drinking water. Some of these pressures can be reduced by demand management and water and wastewater reuse. In wastewater management, new challenges are caused by new chemicals of concern, including endocrine ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Manual on the Causes and Control of Activated Sludge Bulking, Foaming, and Other Solids Seperation Problems, 3rd Edition

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 Regulation of Water and Waste Services:

The public water supply, urban wastewater and urban waste management services are essential to the well-being of citizens, public health and economic activities. These are generally provided under natural or legal monopoly, so there is no incentive for utilities to search for greater efficiency and ...

By IWA Publishing

Financing & Charges for Wastewater Systems - MOP 27

This manual illustrates methods of analyzing and allocating the operating and capital costs of collecting and treating wastewater, and shows how to formulate rates and charges that reasonably reflect the cost of service. Contents: Institutional Issues o Financial Management and Accounting for Wastewater Systems ...

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Global Atlas of Excreta, Wastewater Sludge, and Biosolids Management

Distasteful though the subject may be to some, the treatment of Human waste-or its lack of treatment-poses an important problem facing the world's population, particularly in developing countries and particularly in cities.In this atlas, 27 countries and regions of the world report on sanitation in their respective jurisdictions. They range from developing countries with substantial portions of ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Managing the Water & Wastewater Utility

Learn from the Masters of Public Utility Management! Roger J. Dolan P.E., DEE, T. Duncan Rose, Robert A. Baker, P.E., and Michael J. Barnes, P.E., encourage young water quality professionals to embark upon a career of challenges and responsibilities in utility management. These experts, speaking from ...

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology: An Illustrated Dictionary

Computational hydraulics and hydrologic modeling are rapidly developing fields with a wide range of applications in areas ranging from wastewater disposal and stormwater management to civil and environmental engineering. These fields are full of promise, but the abundance of literature that now exists contains ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy

Many countries in the world have made great efforts, to remedy the water shortage, by providing financial and technical backing, for water desalination, treatment of wastewater and improved management and conservation techniques. Water ministries, universities and research centres have supported ...

By Elsevier Inc.

Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems, Second Edition

Calling for ecologically and economically sound wastewater treatment systems, the authors of Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems explore the use of wetlands, sprinkler or deep irrigation, groundwater recharge, and other natural systems as sustainable methods for the treatment and management of wastewater. ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group