Population growth, increasing living standards, and rapidly changing climate have resulted in an increasing demand for freshwater, accelerating the...

Syngas is the name given to a gas mixture that contains varying amounts of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Examples of production methods include ste...

The production and purification technology of syngas has received huge attention from researchers and industries for the last few years because its...

South African temporarily open/closed estuaries (TOCEs) and similar systems along the coastlines of other regions of the world, especially Australi...

The United States uses 42 billion gallons of water a dayâ€treated to meet Federal drinking water standardsâ€to support a variety of needs. The Safe...

The Pacific coast is the most iconic region of California and one of the most fascinating and rapidly changing places in the world. Densely populat...

Cities face critical challenges connected to population growth, urbanisation, and climate change. Fundamental transformations in urban planning, co...

Thirty-five years of experience implementing and enforcing the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) have demonstrated the strengths and weaknesses o...

Many types of urban soils, including tree pit soil, contain elevated concentrations of trace metals as compared to agricultural and natural soils. ...

Growth is the biological phenomenon of increase in size with time. The sudden increase in tree diameter often observed after rain is not due to gro...

Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste genera...

Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. Many uses of water include agricultural, industrial, househol...

Asian carp were first introduced into the southern United States in the early 1970s to remove algae from farmed catfish ponds. Flooding in the earl...

Greenhouse gas emissions have increased markedly since the pre-industrial era and are increasing at such a rate that their concentration in the atm...

Water is a foundational element of development and by its nature, a basic and essential resource. A great challenge confronts certain regions, nati...

On 25 March 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) jointly proposed a rule defining the scope...

Urbanization is changing both the ecological and socio-cultural characteristics of landscape. Population growth and structural shifts in demography...

What constitutes safe drinking water? For more than a century, the US government has attempted to answer this question by setting national standard...

In this book, the role of biological assessments in a variety of water quality management program applications is discussed, including reporting on...

Natural hazards have become the foremost geo-environmental issue in many regions worldwide, since rarely a year goes by without any catastrophic ev...

A revolution is unfolding in vermiculture studies (rearing of useful earthworms species) for multiple uses in environmental protection and sustaina...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) refers to organic chemical compounds which have significant vapour pressures. This book presents current research...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are hazardous highly toxic pollutants that cause a number of environmental and human health problems. They are re...

Rapid urbanisation coupled with increasing populations has brought in new socio-economic and environmental problems in the world, particularly for ...

This book focuses on waste management which is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials. The term usually re...

Wastewater Treatment: Processes, Uses and Importance begins by providing information about wastewater treatment and its various application, especi...

Over the past few years, the occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in the environment has attracted great interest regarding the possible harmful e...

This book introduces advanced water vapour condensation processes, modelling and control technologies in order to find a sustainable solution in an...

Adverse impacts of climate change are evident in many regions of the world and are likely to get worse in the future. Ever increasing urbanisation ...

Water disinfection is the deactivation, removal or killing of pathogens in order to avoid their growth and reproduction. If disinfection is not ach...

Water shortages are a reality all over the world, and supplying water to urban centers is one of the challenges of modern society. This book examin...

The Bureau of Reclamation is responsible for the construction of most of the large irrigation and water resources infrastructure in the West. Recla...

Policymakers are giving increased attention to issues associated with financing and investing in the nation's drinking water and wastewater treatme...

The responsibility for development, management, and allocation of the nation's water resources is spread among federal, state, local, tribal and pr...

Forty years after the Clean Water Act set a national goal of eliminating the discharge of pollutants into navigable U.S. waters, the Environmental ...

Pollution from non-point sources such as runoff from farms or construction sites, remains the leading cause of impairment of the nation's waters. U...

Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemical and biological contaminants from raw water. The goal is to produce water fit for...

This book focuses on water purification by micelle-clay nano-particles. The micelle-clay complex is composed of an organic cation (surfactant) with...

Water quality is the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water. It is most frequently used by reference to a set of standards agai...

Much progress has been made in achieving the ambitious goals that Congress established more than 35 years ago in the Clean Water Act (CWA) to resto...

Water quality is fundamental for our health and affects the environment we share with other animals including marine, freshwater and terrestrial sp...

Water recycling is former wastewater (sewage) that has been treated to remove solids and certain impurities, and then used in sustainable landscapi...

One of the main challenges faced by humans today is finding a balance between economic development of respective countries and sustainable utilisat...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is the world’s largest public engineering, design, and construction management agency, with water resource...

The 114th Congress faces many water resource development, management, and protection issues. Congressional actions shape reinvestment in aging fede...

Water resources play an essential role in all aspects of human life and activities. All living organisms need water for survival. Due to increased ...

The Water Resources Reform & Development Act of 2014 became law on 10 June 2014. Its conference report resolved differences between the Water R...

This book presents current research in the study of water supply systems and their distribution and environmental effects. Topics discussed in this...