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Harrison, Harry Heinlein, Robert A. McCaffrey, Anne McKillip, Patricia A. Niven, Larry Norton, Andre Nye, Jody Lynn Sheffield, Charles Zelazny, Roger Teens	Books Water Supply & Land Use Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol. 2): Water-Harvesting Earthworks Lowest new price: $25.36 Lowest used price: $21.99 List price: $39.95 Author: Brad Lancaster Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Earthworks are one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective ways of passively harvesting and conserving multiple sources of water in the soil. Associated vegetation then pumps the harvested water back out in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, and passive heating and cooling strategies, while controlling erosion, increasing soil fertility, reducing downstream flooding, and improving water and air quality. Building on the information presented in Volume 1, this book shows you how to select, place, size, construct, and plant your chosen water-harvesting earthworks. It presents detailed how-to information and variations of a diverse array of earthworks, including chapters on mulch, vegetation, and greywater recycling so you can customize the techniques to the unique requirements of your site. Real life stories and examples permeate the book, including: How curb cuts redirect street runoff to passively irrigate flourishing shade trees planted along the street How check dams have helped create springs and perennial flows in once-dry creeks How infiltration basins are creating thriving rain-fed gardens How backyard greywater laundromats are turning "wastewater" into a resource growing food, beauty, and shade that builds community, and more How to create simple tools to read slope and water flow More than 225 illustrations and photographs Similar Products: Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks The New Create an Oasis with Greywater: Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systems - Includes Branched Drains Builder's Greywater Guide: Installation of Greywater Systems in New Construction & Remodeling; A Supplement to the Book "Create an Oasis With Greywater" Water Distribution Operator Training Handbook 3e Lowest new price: $79.60 Lowest used price: $65.72 List price: $88.00 Updated from the 1999 edition, this will continue to be the best-selling operator training book for reference and certification study. Chapters cover water resources and production, storage, distribution, chlorine handling, utility safety, system hydraulics, pipe types, installation, maintenance, meters, pumps, motors, public relations, and overall system operations. Replaces ISBN 1-58321-014-8 Similar Products: Water Operator Certification Study Guide: A Guide to Preparing for Water Treatment and Distribution Operator Certification Exams Water Treatment Operator Handbook, 2nd Edition Water Distribution System Operation and Maintenance (A Field Study Training Program) Small Water System Operations and Maintenance Basic Science Concepts and Applications: Principles and Practices of Water Supply Operations Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations, Second Edition Lowest new price: $95.94 Lowest used price: $58.95 List price: $152.95 Author: Frank R. Spellman Hailed on its initial publication as a real-world, practical handbook, the second edition of Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations continues to make the same basic point: water and wastewater operators must have a basic skill set that is both wide and deep. They must be generalists, well-rounded in the sciences, cyber operations, math operations, mechanics, technical concepts, and common sense. With coverage that spans the breadth and depth of the field, the handbook explores the latest principles and technologies and provides information necessary to prepare for licensure exams. Expanded from beginning to end, this second edition provides a no-holds-barred look at current management issues and includes the latest security information for protecting public assets. It presents in-depth coverage of management aspects and security needs and a new chapter covering the basics of blueprint reading. The chapter on water and wastewater mathematics has tripled in size and now contains an additional 200 problems and 350 math system operational problems with solutions. The manual examines numerous real-world operating scenarios, such as the intake of raw sewage and the treatment of water via residual management, and each scenario includes a comprehensive problem-solving practice set. The text follows a non-traditional paradigm based on real-world experience and proven parameters. Clearly written and user friendly, this revision of a bestseller builds on the remarkable success of the first edition. This book is a thorough compilation of water science, treatment information, process control procedures, problem-solving techniques, safety and health information, and administrative and technological trends. Similar Products: Operation of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants (3-Volume Set) Applied Math for Wastewater Plant Operators Water Treatment: Principles and Design Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse Water and Wastewater Treatment: A Guide for the Nonengineering Professionals Water Treatment Operator Handbook, 2nd Edition Lowest new price: $55.00 Lowest used price: $67.98 List price: $85.00 Author: Nick Pizzi Updated from the 2002 edition, this book covers everything water treatment operators need to know to perform their jobs and keep in compliance with changing regulations. Coverage includes: pretreatment, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection, adsorption, iron and manganese removal, fluoridation, corrosion, nano-,ultra-, and microfiltration, testing and laboratory procedures, instrumentation and control equipment, and safety practices. A totally new chapter on Regulated Contaminant and Treatment Challenges has been added. Replaces ISBN: 1-58321-184-5 Similar Products: Water Distribution Operator Training Handbook 3e Operator Certification Study Guide, Fifth Edition Water Operator Certification Study Guide: A Guide to Preparing for Water Treatment and Distribution Operator Certification Exams Lumpy Water Math: Math for Wastewater Operators Water Distribution Operator Training Handbook, 2nd Edition Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water Lowest new price: $9.58 Lowest used price: $0.32 List price: $18.95 Author: Maude Barlow In this “chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis” (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource may one day be limited: our consumption doubles every twenty years—twice the rate of population increase. At the same time, increasingly transnational corporations are plotting to control the world’s dwindling water supply. In England and France, where water has already been privatized, rates have soared, and water shortages have been severe. The major bottled-water producers—Perrier, Evian, Naya, and now Coca-Cola and PepsiCo—are part of one of the fastest-growing and least-regulated industries, buying up freshwater rights and drying up crucial supplies. A truly shocking exposé that is a call to arms to people around the world, Blue Gold shows in frightening detail why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, “The wars of the next century will be about water.” Similar Products: Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century Blue Gold: World Water Wars A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy Biogeochemistry of Wetlands: Science and Applications Lowest new price: $113.65 Lowest used price: $151.02 List price: $167.95 Author: K. Ramesh Reddy Wetland ecosystems maintain a fragile balance of soil, water, plant, and atmospheric components in order to regulate water flow, flooding, and water quality. Marginally covered in traditional texts on biogeochemistry or on wetland soils, Biogeochemistry of Wetlands is the first to focus entirely on the biological, geological, physical, and chemical processes that affect these critical habitats. This book offers an in-depth look at the chemical and biological cycling of nutrients, trace elements, and toxic organic compounds in wetland soil and water column as related to water quality, carbon sequestration, and greenhouse gases. It details the electrochemistry, biochemical processes, and transformation mechanisms for the elemental cycling of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. Additional chapters examine the fate and chemistry of heavy metals and toxic organic compounds in wetland environments. The authors emphasize the role of redox-pH conditions, organic matter, microbial-mediated processes that drive transformation in wetlands, plant responses and adaptation to wetland soil conditions. They also analyze how excess water, sediment water, and atmospheric change relate to elemental biogeochemical cycling. Delivering an in-depth scientific examination of the natural processes that occur in wetland ecosystems, Biogeochemistry of Wetlands comprises a key perspective on the environmental impact of pollutants and the role freshwater and coastal wetlands play in global climate change. Similar Products: Treatment Wetlands, Second Edition Wetlands Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation The Nature and Properties of Soils, 14th Edition Wastewater Treatment Plants: Planning, Design, and Operation, Second Edition Lowest new price: $132.21 Lowest used price: $90.00 List price: $189.95 Author: Syed R. Qasim Step-by-step procedures for planning, design, construction and operation: * Health and environment * Process improvements * Stormwater and combined sewer control and treatment * Effluent disposal and reuse * Biosolids disposal and reuse * On-site treatment and disposal of small flows * Wastewater treatment plants should be designed so that the effluent standards and reuse objectives, and biosolids regulations can be met with reasonable ease and cost. The design should incorporate flexibility for dealing with seasonal changes, as well as long-term changes in wastewater quality and future regulations. Good planning and design, therefore, must be based on five major steps: characterization of the raw wastewater quality and effluent, pre-design studies to develop alternative processes and selection of final process train, detailed design of the selected alternative, contraction, and operation and maintenance of the completed facility. Engineers, scientists, and financial analysts must utilize principles from a wide range of disciplines: engineering, chemistry, microbiology, geology, architecture, and economics to carry out the responsibilities of designing a wastewater treatment plant. The objective of this book is to present the technical and nontechnical issues that are most commonly addressed in the planning and design reports for wastewater treatment facilities prepared by practicing engineers. Topics discussed include facility planning, process description, process selection logic, mass balance calculations, design calculations, and concepts for equipment sizing. Theory, design, operation and maintenance, trouble shooting, equipment selection and specifications are integrated for each treatment process. Thus delineation of such information for use by students and practicing engineers is the main purpose of this book. Similar Products: Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse Water and Wastewater Calculations Manual, 2nd Ed. Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse Water Works Engineering: Planning, Design And Operation Design of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants MOP 8, Fifth Edition (Wef Manual of Practice 8: Asce Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice, No. 76) Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America's Fresh Waters Lowest new price: $14.51 Lowest used price: $2.01 List price: $18.95 Author: Dr. Robert Jerome Glennon J.D. Ph.D "...a book as rich in detail as it is devastating in its argument." -SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN "Water Follies deserves a place alongside the late Marc Reisner's classic Cadillac Desert." -ENVIRONMENT "a lively account of hydrology" -NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS "if you want to scare yourself silly, read Water Follies, by Robert Glennon. In it you'll learn how America is irrigating itself to death-just like the Sumerians-while sucking its groundwater aquifers dry."-TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL Similar Products: Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century Keepers of the Spring: Reclaiming Our Water In An Age Of Globalization Applied Math for Wastewater Plant Operators - Workbook Lowest new price: $27.75 Lowest used price: $24.37 List price: $43.95 Author: Joanne K. Price This workbook is a companion to Applied Math for Wastewater Plant Operators (ISBN: 9780877628095) and part of the Applied Math for Wastewater Plant Operators Set (ISBN: 9781566769891). It contains self-teaching guides for all wastewater treatment calculations, skill checks, hundreds of worked examples, and practice problems. Similar Products: Applied Math for Wastewater Plant Operators Lumpy Water Math: Math for Wastewater Operators Applied Math for Water Plant Operators - Workbook Wastewater Operator Certification Study Guide Applied Math for Water Plant Operators Set (Textbook and Workbook) Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource Lowest new price: $4.91 Lowest used price: $0.01 List price: $16.00 Author: Marq de Villiers In his award-winning book WATER, Marq de Villiers provides an eye-opening account of how we are using, misusing, and abusing our planet's most vital resource. Encompassing ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, de Villiers reports from hot spots as diverse as China, Las Vegas, and the Middle East, where swelling populations and unchecked development have stressed fresh water supplies nearly beyond remedy. Political struggles for control of water rage around the globe, and rampant pollution daily poses dire ecological theats. With one eye on these looming crises and the other on the history of our dependence on our planet's most precious commodity, de Villiers has crafted a powerful narrative about the lifeblood of civilizations that will be "a wake-up call for concerned citizens, environmentalists, policymakers, and water drinkers everywhere" (Publishers Weekly). Water is a curious thing, observed the economist Adam Smith: although it is vital to life, it costs almost nothing, whereas diamonds, which are useless for survival, cost a fortune. In Water, Canadian journalist de Villiers says the resource is still undervalued, but it is becoming more precious. It's not that the world is running out of water, he adds, but that "it's running out in places where it's needed most." De Villiers examines the checkered history of humankind's management of water--which, he hastens to remind us, is not a renewable resource in many parts of the world. One of them is the Nile River region, burdened by overpopulation. Another is the Sahara, where Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi is pressing an ambitious, and potentially environmentally disastrous, campaign to mine deep underground aquifers to make the desert green. Another is northern China, where the damaging effects of irrigation have destroyed once-mighty rivers, and the Aral Sea of Central Asia, which was killed within a human lifetime. And still another is the American Southwest, where crops more fitting to a jungle than a dry land are nursed. De Villiers travels to all these places, reporting on what he sees and delivering news that is rarely good. De Villiers has a keen eye for detail and a solid command of the scientific literature on which his argument is based. He's also a fine storyteller, and his wide-ranging book makes a useful companion to Marc Reisner's classic Cadillac Desert and other works that call our attention to a globally abused--and vital--resource. --Gregory McNamee Similar Products: Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century The Atlas of Water, Second Edition: Mapping the World's Most Critical Resource A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)

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