Water Engineering Books

New and Published Books

1. The Drinking Water Handbook, Second Edition

   By Frank R. Spellman, Joanne E. Drinan

   When you open the tap to fill your glass with drinking water, you expect the water to be of good quality. But is the water from your tap really safe? The second edition of an industry-wide bestseller, The Drinking Water Handbook explains the many processes employed to make water safe to drink....

   Published May 21st 2012 by CRC Press
2. Rainwater Harvesting for Agriculture in the Dry Areas

   By Theib Y. Oweis, Dieter Prinz, Ahmed Y. Hachum

   Dry areas suffer not only from limited rainfall but also ‘natural leakage’ - 90% of rainwater is lost directly or indirectly, and is unavailable for agriculture or domestic use. Water harvesting is a low-cost, easy-to-use, environmentally-friendly way to recover a large part of this lost water. How...

   Published May 20th 2012 by CRC Press
3. Great Lakes

   Lessons in Participatory Governance

   Edited by Velma I. Grover, Gail Krantzberg

   This edited volume while focusing on participatory governance in the Great Lakes basin of North America also gives a comparative perspective of the African Great Lakes. The book describes the actions taken at degraded locations along the Great Lakes in North America through Remedial Action Plans (...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Science Publishers
4. Water and Sanitation Services

   Public Policy and Management

   Edited by Jose Esteban Castro, Leo Heller

   Substantially reducing the number of human beings who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation is one of the key Millennium Development Goals. This book argues and demonstrates that this can only be achieved by a better integration of the technical and social science approaches in the search...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
5. Multi-Objective Optimization for Urban Drainage Rehabilitation

   UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

   By Wilmer Jose Barreto Cordero

   Flooding in urbanized areas has become a very important issue around the world. The level of service (or performance) of urban drainage systems (UDS) degrades in time for a number of reasons. In order to maintain an acceptable performance of UDS, early rehabilitation plans must be developed and...

   Published April 30th 2012 by CRC Press
6. Changes in Flood Risk in Europe

   Edited by Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz

   Floods are the most prevalent natural hazard in Europe. Has flood risk increased in the continent? How, where, and why? Are climate change impacts apparent? How do socio-economic trends and associated land-use and land-cover change impact flood risk? National and regional perspectives on flood risk...

   Published April 29th 2012 by CRC Press
7. Groundwater Optimization Handbook

   Flow, Contaminant Transport, and Conjunctive Management

   By Richard C. Peralta

   Existing and impending water shortages argue for improving water quantity and quality management. Groundwater Optimization Handbook: Flow, Contaminant Transport, and Conjunctive Management helps you formulate and solve groundwater optimization problems to ensure sustainable supplies of adequate...

   Published April 25th 2012 by CRC Press
8. Water Policy Processes in India

   Discourses of Power and Resistance

   By Vandana Asthana

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Multiscale Hydrologic Remote Sensing

   Perspectives and Applications

   Edited by Ni-Bin Chang, Yang Hong

   Multiscale Hydrologic Remote Sensing: Perspectives and Applications integrates advances in hydrologic science and innovative remote sensing technologies. Raising the visibility of interdisciplinary research on water resources, it offers a suite of tools and platforms for investigating spatially and...

   Published March 22nd 2012 by CRC Press
10. Application of Hydrodynamic Cavitation in Environmental Engineering

    By Janusz Ozonek

    Containing the state-of-the-art in hydrodynamic cavitation, the book consists of two parts. The first part presents the physical basis of cavitation and a systematic classification of various kinds of cavitation and their formation sources. Special attention is paid to a group of factors that...

    Published March 5th 2012 by CRC Press