Water Treatment in Developed and Developing Nations An International Perspective

Introduction

Comparative Study of Three Two-Stage Hybrid Ecological Wastewater Treatment Systems for Producing High Nutrient, Reclaimed Water for Irrigation Reuse in Developing Countries; Florentina Zurita and John R. White

Sustainability of Wastewater Treatment and Excess Sludge Handling Practices in the Federated States of Micronesia; Joseph D. Rouse

Occurrence and Removal Characteristics of Phthalate Esters from Typical Water Sources in Northeast China; Yu Liu, Zhonglin Chen, and Jimin Shen

Assessment of Domestic Wastewater Disposal in Some Selected Wards of Maiduguri Metropolis, Borno State, Nigeria; Abba Kagu, Hauwa Lawan Badawi, and Jimme M. Abba

Detection of Free-Living Amoebae Using Amoebal Enrichment in a Wastewater Treatment Plant of Gauteng Province, South Africa; P. Muchesa, O. Mwamba, T. G. Barnard, and C. Bartie

Water and Wastewater Management and Biomass to Energy Conversion in a Meat Processing Plant in Brazil: A Case Study; Humberto J. José, Regina F. P. M. Moreira, Danielle B. Luiz, Elaine Virmond, Aziza K. Genena, Silvia L. F. Andersen, Rennio F. de Sena, and Horst Fr. Schröder

Intra- and Inter-Pandemic Variations of Antiviral, Antibiotics and Decongestants in Wastewater Treatment Plants and Receiving Rivers; Andrew C. Singer, Josef D. Järhult, Roman Grabic, Ghazanfar A. Khan, Richard H. Lindberg, Ganna Fedorova, Jerker Fick, Michael J. Bowes, Björn Olsen, and Hanna Söderström

Wastewater Recycling in Greece: The Case of Thessaloniki; Andreas Ilias, Athanasios Panoras, and Andreas Angelakis

Do Contaminants Originating from State-of-the-Art Treated Wastewater Impact the Ecological Quality of Surface Waters?; Daniel Stalter, Axel Magdeburg, Kristin Quednow, Alexandra Botzat, and Jörg Oehlmann

Performance of a Constructed Wetland in Grand Marais, Manitoba, Canada: Removal of Nutrients, Pharmaceuticals, and Antibiotic Resistance Genes from Municipal Wastewater; Julie C. Anderson, Jules C. Carlson, Jennifer E. Low, Jonathan K. Challis, Charles S. Wong, Charles W. Knapp, and Mark L. Hanson

Irrigation with Treated Wastewater: Quantification of Changes in Soil Physical and Chemical Properties; Pradip Adhikari, Manoj K. Shukla, John G. Mexal, and David Daniel

Spatial Distribution of Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Groundwater beneath Two Large On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems; Charles Humphrey, Michael O’Driscoll, and Jonathan Harris

Detection of Retinoic Acid Receptor Agonistic Activity and Identification of Causative Compounds in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants in Japan; Kazuko Sawada, Daisuke Inoue, Yuichiro Wada, Kazunari Sei, Tsuyoshi Nakanishi, and Michihiko Ike

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Biography

Professor Victor Monsalvo is an environmental scientist with a PhD in chemical engineering from the University Autonoma de Madrid, where he later became a professor in the chemical engineering department. As a researcher, he has worked with the following universities: Leeds, Cranfield, Sydney, and Aachen. He is part of an active research team working in areas of environmental technologies, water recycling, and advanced biological systems, including membrane bioreactors. He has led eight research projects with private companies and an R&D national project, coauthored two patents (national and international), and written around fifty journal and referred conference papers. He has given two key notes in international conferences and has been a member of the organizing committee of five national and international conferences, workshops, and summer schools, and is currently involved in fifteen research projects sponsored by various entities. He is currently working as senior researcher in the Chemical Processes Department at Abengoa Research.