Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water (Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Series) - Hardcover

American Water Works Association; Edzwald, James K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071630112 ISBN 13: 9780071630115

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2011

Synopsis

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The definitive water quality and treatment resource--fully revised and updated

Comprehensive, current, and written by leading experts, Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water, Sixth Edition covers state-of-the-art technologies and methods for water treatment and quality control. Significant revisions and new material in this edition reflect the latest advances and critical topics in water supply and treatment. Presented by the American Water Works Association, this is the leading source of authoritative information on drinking water quality and treatment.

NEW CHAPTERS ON:

• Chemical principles, source water composition, and watershed protection
• Natural treatment systems
• Water reuse for drinking water augmentation
• Ultraviolet light processes
• Formation and control of disinfection by-products

DETAILED COVERAGE OF:

• Drinking water standards, regulations, goals, and health effects
• Hydraulic characteristics of water treatment reactors
• Gas-liquid processes and chemical oxidation
• Coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, and flotation
• Granular media and membrane filtration
• Ion exchange and adsorption of inorganic contaminants
• Precipitation, coprecipitation, and precipitative softening
• Adsorption of organic compounds by activated carbon
• Chemical disinfection
• Internal corrosion and deposition control
• Microbiological quality control in distribution systems
• Water treatment plant residuals management

About this title

About the Author:

The leading organization of water management professionals in the United States, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) empaneled a committee of 23 experts to compile authoritative definitions and develop this dictionary. This special Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has worked since 1994 creating this unequaled reference. James M. Symons, Cullen Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Houston, served as Project Supervisor and Editor. AWWA has its headquarters in Denver, Colorado.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0071630112
• ISBN 13: 9780071630115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 1696