Drinking Water Security for Engineers, Planners, and Managers By Ravi Jain

"Concise and readable, Drinking Water Security for Engineers, Planners and Managers provides an overview of issues including infrastructure planning, planning to evaluate vulnerabilities and potential threats, capital improvement planning, and maintenance and risk management. This book also covers topics regarding potential contaminants, available water security technologies, analytical methods, and sensor technologies and networks. Other topics include transport and containment of contaminated water, treatment technologies and the treatability of contaminants ; Threat and vulnerability risk assessments and capital improvement ; Identification and characterization of potential contaminants and clean up ; Application of information assurance techniques to computerized systems"--Provided by publisher.

Concise and readable, Drinking Water Security for Engineers, Planners and Managers provides an overview of issues including infrastructure planning, planning to evaluate vulnerabilities and potential threats, capital improvement planning, and maintenance and risk management. This book also covers topics regarding potential contaminants, available water security technologies, analytical methods, and sensor technologies and networks. Other topics include transport and containment of contaminated water, treatment technologies and the treatability of contaminants. Threat and vulnerability risk assessments and capital improvement Identification and characterization of potential contaminants and clean up Application of information assurance techniques to computerized systems

FUNDAMENTALS OF WATER SECURITY Understand How to Manage Water Resources to Equitably Meet Both Human and Ecological Needs Burgeoning populations and the ever-higher standards of living for those in emerging countries increase the demand on our water resources. What is not increasing, however, is the supply of water and the total amount of water in earth’s biosphere—water that is integral to all standards of living. Fundamentals of Water Security provides a foundation for understanding and managing the quantity-quality-equity nexus of water security in a changing climate. In a broad sense, this volume explores solutions to water security challenges around the world. It is richly illustrated and pedagogically packed with up-to-date information. The text contains chapter learning objectives, foundation sections reviewing quantitative skills, case studies, and vignettes of people who have made important contributions to water security. To further aid comprehension, end-of-chapter problems are included—both qualitative and quantitative, with solutions available to instructors. Finally, extensive references feature books, journal articles, and government and NGO reports. Sample topics discussed include: How the study of water resources has evolved from a focus on physical availability to include social factors and governance How water security affects multiple disciplines across environmental science and engineering, hydrology, geography, water resources, atmospheric science, chemistry, biology, health science, and social and political science fields How to achieve a sufficient quantity and quality of water to equitably meet both immediate and long-term human and ecological needs Analysis of water security in an integrated manner by underscoring the complex interactions between water quantity, water quality, and society Students taking courses on hydrology, water security, and/or water resource management, along with scientists working in fields where water security is a factor will be able to use Fundamentals of Water Security as a comprehensive textbook to understand and achieve water security.

The crisis of water all over has brought renewed focus on the urgent need for sustainable management of the water resource. This issue is interwined and integrated to cultural, historical, political economic and social development, which have bearing on the regional stability and international cooperation. Fast increasing population is leading to indiscriminate expansion of urban footprints on the landscape of India. This is putting unbearable pressure on the ever-dwindling water resource. Its sustainable development would chart the course for the future growth of the country. Therefore, it is imperative not only to initiate new projects and upgrade our present infrastructure, but also to promote water conservation. This book provides a holistic and a comprehensive perspective to understand, analyze and deal with the short term and long range issue which are involved in the planning, conservation and management of the water resource. It provides a window to much needed basic information for the engineers, planners, architects, managers and all those involved with water management. Contents Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Accelerated Urban Water Supply Programme; Chapter 3: Agenda 21 and Sustainable Water Development; Chapter 4: Agriculture and Water Management; Chapter 5: Aquifers; Chapter 6: Bio-Drainage; Chapter 7: Coagulation and Flocculation; Chapter 8: Coastal Regulation Zone and Marine Pollution; Chapter 9: Drainage and Storm Water Management; Chapter 10: Drinking Water; Chapter 11: Drip Irrigation and Rainfed Agriculture; Chapter 12: Driving Rain Index; Chapter 13: Filtration Technology and Water Treatment; Chapter 14: Fire Hydrants; Chapter 15: Fresh Water Management; Chapter 16: Ground Water Resource and Management; Chapter 17: Hydraulic Civilisation; Chapter 18: Infiltration Wells; Chapter 19: Inter-basin Water Transfer; Chapter 20: Landscape and Water; Chapter 21: National Water Policy; Chapter 22: The Rain; Chapter 23: Rain Water Harvesting; Chapter 24: River Basin Development; Chapter 25: River Floodplain Management; Chapter 26: Rural Water Supply; Chapter 27: Tenth Five Year Plan (2002-07); Chapter 28: Waste Water Treatment; Chapter 29: Water Demand Management; Chapter 30: Water Harvesting Structures; Chapter 31: Water proofing in Buildings; Chapter 32: Water Pollution and Health; Chapter 33: Water Saving Techniques; Chapter 34: Watershed Development; Chapter 35: Water Security; Chapter 36: Water Tariffs and Financial Infrastructure; Chapter 37: Setting Up of Regulatory Authority; Chapter 38: Water Supply: Model Agreement for Partnership; Chapter 39: Water Supply in Building; Chapter 40: Wetlands; Chapter 41: Zero Run-off Drainage.

Natural disasters, tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods are occurring with increasing frequency. In emergencies, pure drinking water is quickly the most important item. Low Cost Emergency Water Purification Technologies provides the tips and techniques for supplying potable drinking water at low cost in the direst circumstances. Succinct and readable, this manual describes the various options for correcting unsanitary or unsatisfactory drinking water. Several treatment methods for contaminated water are reviewed and the pros and cons of each are discussed. Covers long-term technologies including sand filtration, packaged filtration units, pressurized filtration systems and natural filtration Addresses short-term strategies such as reverse osmosis-based filtration, cartridge filtration systems, and solar pasteurizations systems Describes disinfection systems, energy-saving applications, cost considerations and HA/DR applications

Tackling the issue of water and wastewater treatment nowadays requires novel approaches to ensure that sustainable development can be achieved. Water and wastewater treatment should not be seen only as an end-of-pipe solution but instead the approach should be more holistic and lead to a more sustainable process. This requires the integration of various methods/processes to obtain the most optimized design. Integrated and Hybrid Process Technology for Water and Wastewater Treatment discusses the state-of-the-art development in integrated and hybrid treatment processes and their applications to the treatment of a vast variety of water and wastewater sources. The approaches taken in this book are categorized as (i) resources recovery and consumption, (ii) optimal performance, (iii) physical and environmental footprints, (iv) zero liquid discharge concept and are (v) regulation-driven. Through these categories, readers will see how such an approach could benefit the water and wastewater industry. Each chapter discusses challenges and prospects of an integrated treatment process in achieving sustainable development. This book serves as a platform to provide ideas and to bridge the gap between laboratory-scale research and practical industry application. Includes comprehensive coverage on integrated and hybrid technology for water and wastewater treatment Takes a new approach in looking at how water and wastewater treatment contributes to sustainable development Provides future direction of research in sustainable water and wastewater treatment