Water industries books

1505 books were found.

The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism

The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial...

Author: Robert W. Righter (Research Professor of History, Research Professor of History, Southern Methodist University)
ISBN: 9780195313093
Format: Paperback
$64.95

In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies...  Read More >>

Water Management in Megacities

Water Management in Megacities

Author: Cecilia Tortajada (National University of Singapore) ,  Olli Varis
ISBN: 9780415413633
Format: Hardback
$77.99

Contains a Preface by Asit K Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada. This book includes contributions from Olli Varis: Megacities...  Read More >>

Strategies for Sustainable Water Resource Management

Strategies for Sustainable Water Resource Management...

Author: K. W. Thornton
ISBN: 9781843397564
Format: Paperback
$289.80

Integrated water resource management has been discussed since at least the Civil War; yet, there is still no integrated...  Read More >>

India's Water Economy

India's Water Economy

Author: John Briscoe ,  Malik
ISBN: 9780195683332
Format: Paperback
$24.95

Argues that India faces a turbulent future in water resources. This report examines the evolution of the management...  Read More >>

People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management

People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication...

Author: Guy Bessette
ISBN: 9781844073436
Format: Hardback
$162.00

Presents conceptual and methodological issues related to the use of Participatory Development Communication (PDC)....  Read More >>

Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California

Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth,...

Author: Steven P. Erie
ISBN: 9780804751407
Format: Paperback
$41.95

This is a study of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and its unsung roles in this semi-desert...  Read More >>

Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California

Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth,...

Author: Steven P. Erie
ISBN: 9780804751391
Format: Hardback
$95.99

This is a study of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and its unsung roles in this semi-desert...  Read More >>

The Future of Large Dams: Dealing with Social, Environmental, Institutional and Political Costs

The Future of Large Dams: Dealing with Social, Environmental,...

Author: Thayer Ted Scudder
ISBN: 9781844073382
Format: Paperback
$131.00

Viewed by some as symbols of progress and by others as inherently flawed, large dams remain one of the most contentious...  Read More >>

APPROACHES TO PRIVATE PARTICIPATION IN WATER SERVICES-A TOOLKIT

APPROACHES TO PRIVATE PARTICIPATION IN WATER SERVICES-A...

Author: PPIAF ,  World Bank
ISBN: 9780821361115
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Approaches to Private Participation in Water Services is an informative toolkit that provides options for the design...  Read More >>

Introduction to Urban Water Distribution: Unesco-IHE Lecture Note Series

Introduction to Urban Water Distribution: Unesco-IHE...

Author: Nemanja Trifunovic (IHE Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415395182
Format: Paperback
$300.83

Focuses on understanding the steady-state hydraulics that form the basis of hydraulic design and computer modelling...  Read More >>

Introduction to Urban Water Distribution: Unesco-IHE Lecture Note Series

Introduction to Urban Water Distribution: Unesco-IHE...

Author: Nemanja Trifunovic (IHE Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415395175
Format: Hardback
$625.55

Focuses on understanding the steady-state hydraulics that form the basis of hydraulic design and computer modelling...  Read More >>

Water Treatment Unit Processes: Physical and Chemical

Water Treatment Unit Processes: Physical and Chemical...

Author: David W. Hendricks (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA)
ISBN: 9780824706951
Format: Hardback
$190.00

The unit process approach, common in the field of chemical engineering, was introduced about 1962 to the field of...  Read More >>

Advanced Onsite Wastewater Systems Technologies

Advanced Onsite Wastewater Systems Technologies

Author: Anish R. Jantrania ,  Mark A. Gross
ISBN: 9780849330292
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Explores technologies that can be used to solve problems associated with conventional septic tank and drain field...  Read More >>

Learning from Data for Aquatic and Geotechnical Environments

Learning from Data for Aquatic and Geotechnical Environments...

Author: Biswa Bhattacharya
ISBN: 9780415391702
Format: Paperback
$252.00

The book presents machine learning as an approach to build models that learn from data, and that can be used to...  Read More >>

Hydroinformatics: Data Integrative Approaches in Computation, Analysis, and Modeling

Hydroinformatics: Data Integrative Approaches in Computation,...

Author: Praveen Kumar ,  Mike Folk
ISBN: 9780849328947
Format: Hardback
$235.00

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book lays a pedagogical foundation in the concepts underlying developments...  Read More >>

Waste Treatment in the Process Industries

Waste Treatment in the Process Industries

Author: Lawrence K. Wang (Lenox Institute of Water Technology, USA) ,  Yung-Tse Hung (Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA)
ISBN: 9780849372339
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Outlines the fundamentals and of waste treatment in various process industries, such as pharmaceuticals, textiles,...  Read More >>

Globalization, Water and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity

Globalization, Water and Health: Resource Management...

Author: Linda M. Whiteford ,  Scott Whiteford
ISBN: 9780852559796
Format: Hardback
$93.95

About crime and passion, life and death, lofty goals and squalid realities, this book is about water. It illuminates...  Read More >>

Waste Treatment in the Food Processing Industry

Waste Treatment in the Food Processing Industry

Author: Lawrence K. Wang ,  Yung-Tse Hung
ISBN: 9780849372360
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Delineating methods, technologies, and the regional and global effects of important pollution control practices,...  Read More >>

Watershed Models

Watershed Models

Author: Vijay P. Singh (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA) ,  Donald K. Frevert (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado, USA)
ISBN: 9780849336096
Format: Hardback
$452.00

Spanning a variety of modeling areas, this book outlines 24 models that represent a variety of characteristics,...  Read More >>

Blue Revolution: Integrated Land and Water Resources Management

Blue Revolution: Integrated Land and Water Resources...

Author: Ian Calder
ISBN: 9781844072392
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Presents the key issues involved in finding the balance between the competing demands for land and water: for food...  Read More >>

Blue Revolution: Integrated Land and Water Resources Management

Blue Revolution: Integrated Land and Water Resources...

Author: Ian Calder
ISBN: 9781844072408
Format: Hardback
$204.00

Presents the key issues involved in finding the balance between the competing demands for land and water: for food...  Read More >>

Semiconductor Industry: Wafer Fab Exhaust Management

Semiconductor Industry: Wafer Fab Exhaust Management...

Author: J. Michael Sherer (Sherer Consulting Services, Gilbert, Arizona, USA)
ISBN: 9781574447200
Format: Hardback
$205.00

Given the myriad exhaust compounds and the corresponding problems they can pose in an exhaust management system,...  Read More >>

Optimization of Water Management in Polder Areas: Some Examples for the Temperate Humid and the Humid Tropical Zone

Optimization of Water Management in Polder Areas: Some...

Author: Preecha Wandee (UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415375559
Format: Paperback
$141.00

Model simulations can be use to gain insight into the system behaviour of different land use and soil composition...  Read More >>

WSUD Engineering Procedures: Stormwater

WSUD Engineering Procedures: Stormwater

Author: Melbourne Water
ISBN: 9780643090927
Format: Paperback
$237.60

Designed to give practical engineering solutions to all those who need to implement WSUD guidelines. Provides design...  Read More >>

Liquid Assets: An Economic Approach for Water Management and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and Beyond

Liquid Assets: An Economic Approach for Water Management...

Author: Franklin Fisher ,  Annette Huber-Lee
ISBN: 9781933115092
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Shows that the common view of water as an inevitable cause of future wars is neither rational nor necessary. This...  Read More >>

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