Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780071630115)

Vendor: American Water Works Association
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Format: Hardcover
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Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water

$189.00

Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water

$189.00
Format: Hardcover
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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


Author: American Water Works Association,James K. Edzwald
ISBN-10: 0071630112
ISBN-13: 9780071630115
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2010
Pages: 1696
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.60lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 2.50d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 294
By American Water Works Association
By American Water Works Association
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American Water Works Association (AWWA) is the leading organization of water management professionals in the United States.
James K. Edzwald, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts where he was Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1984-2006. He is a former President of the Association of Environmental Engineering Professors and served on the Board of Trustees as Vice President. Dr. Edzwald was twice honored with teaching awards at the University of Massachusetts and in 1990 he received the College of Engineering Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award. Dr. Edzwald is a member of AAEE, ASCE, AWWA, AEESP, IWA, and the NEWWA.

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