Sustainable Water Management and Technologies by Chen, Daniel H.

Sustainable Water Management and Technologies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781482215182)

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Format: Hardcover
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Sustainable Water Management and Technologies by Chen, Daniel H.

Sustainable Water Management and Technologies

$220.00
Sustainable Water Management and Technologies by Chen, Daniel H.

Sustainable Water Management and Technologies

$220.00
Format: Hardcover
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While the world's population continues to grow, the availability of water remains constant. Facing the looming water crisis, society needs to tackle strategic management issues as an integrated part of the solution toward water sustainability. The first volume in the two-volume set Sustainable Water Management and Technologies offers readers a practical and comprehensive look at such key water management topics as water resource planning and governance, water infrastructure planning and adaption, proper regulations, and water scarcity and inequality. It discusses best management practices for water resource allocation, ground water protection, and water quality assurance, especially for rural, arid, and underdeveloped regions of the world. Timely topics such as drought, ecosystem sustainability, climate change, and water management for shale oil and gas development are presented.

  • Discusses best practices for water resource allocation, ground water protection, and water quality assurance.

  • Offers chapters on urban, rural, arid, and underdeveloped regions of the world.

  • Describes timely topics such as drought, ecosystem sustainability, climate change, and water management for shale oil and gas development.

  • Covers water resource planning and governance, water infrastructure planning and adaptation, proper regulations, and water scarcity and inequality

  • Discusses water resource monitoring, efficiency, and quality management.


Author: Daniel H. Chen
ISBN-10: 1482215187
ISBN-13: 9781482215182
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2016
Pages: 446
Format: Hardcover
By Daniel H. Chen
By Daniel H. Chen
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Daniel H. Chen is professor at the Dan F. Smith Department of Chemical Engineering and holds the title of University Professor and University Scholar at Lamar University. He is the director of the Photocatalysis Lab and deputy director of the Process Engineering Center. Dr. Chen's areas of expertise are air/water pollution, nanostructured catalytic materials, and process modeling. He has published 4 book chapters and 37 articles and has given numerous presentations throughout the United States and worldwide. Since 2006, he has worked on a series of field sampling and water treatment projects aimed at improving the water quality of the Rio Grande Basin in south Texas. Dr. Chen holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Chen has previously served as a shift supervisor in Hualon-Teijin Polyester Plant, Taiwan, as a project engineer at Chemical Engineering Consultants, Inc., Stillwater, Oklahoma, as a US Department of Energy research fellow at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown, West Virginia, and as a US Army/Battelle faculty associate at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. He also has served as session chair/co-chair of Sustainable Water Use and Management, Reaction Engineering for Combustion and Pyrolysis, and Liquid Phase Reaction Engineering at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Dr. Chen is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.

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