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The Dynamics of Water Innovation is an invaluable resource for individuals and organizations driving the adoption of new technologies in the water sector, including entrepreneurs, investors, technology and innovation leaders, researchers, and academics. The global water crisis means there is an urgent need for the development, introduction, and scaling of water technologies all around the world. Historically the water sector has been perceived as slow to adopt innovation, but little research has been carried out to verify or explain this phenomenon. This book proposes a new water technology adoption (WaTA) model created for the unique circumstances of water sector innovation and drawn from existing cross-sector models. The WaTA model includes a practical set of criteria that can be applied in the real world to generate better-informed planning and decision-making for innovators and investors. It gives water innovators a practical and robust method to plan and track developments, which could have a significant impact on perceptions of the pace of change, market confidence, and future outcomes. Authors: Dr. Paul O'Callaghan, Dr. Lakshmi M. Adapa, Dr. Cees Buisman

Water and Wastewater Engineering Technology presents the basic concepts and applications of water and wastewater engineering technology. It is primarily designed for students pursuing programs in civil, water resources, and environmental engineering, and presents the fundamentals of water and wastewater technology, hydraulics, chemistry, and biology. The book examines the urban water cycle in two main categories, water treatment and distribution, and wastewater collection and treatment. The material lays the foundation for typical one-semester courses in water engineering and also serves as a valuable resource to professionals operating and managing water and wastewater treatment plants. The chapters in this book are standalone, offering the flexibility to choose combinations of topics to suit the requirements of a given course or professional application.Features:• Contains example problems and diagrams throughout to illustrate and clarify important topics.• Problems both in SI and USC system of units.• The procedure of unit cancellation followed in all solutions to the problems. • Design applications and operation of water and wastewater system emphasized.• Includes numerous practice problems with answers, and discussion questions in each chapter cover a range of engineering interventions to help conserve water resources and preserve water quality.

This book aims at presenting a unified framework for the description of working principles, recent advances and applications of cutting-edge measurement technologies for the water sector. Instrumentation and measurement technologies are currently playing a key role in the monitoring, assessment and protection of environmental resources. Measurement techniques and sensing methods for the observation of water systems are rapidly evolving and are requiring an increased multi-disciplinary participation.The whole water sector is characterised by multiple technological contexts concerning the monitoring of the resource, given the broad coverage that includes water from its natural domains to the men-made infrastructures. In particular, instrumentation and measurement technologies have a pervasive presence in all the necessary aspects for the assessment, monitoring and control of the water resource and of its relationship with the various environmental stressors, including the anthropic pressures.Therefore, the book aims at presenting how the diagnostics/monitoring methodologies and the related technologies can give an answer to the issues raised by the complex scenario characterising the water cycle management (WCM). The book is structured in five topical sections, grouped by similarity of their technological and/or applicative contexts.

Learn how others modernize workflows, create actionable data, reduce costs, and prepare for new challenges. Location is at the core of many utilities'daily and long-term planning, but it's about more than making a map. It's improving the reliability of your water and energy infrastructure by reducing service interruptions. It's using data analysis to make informed operational decisions, both in the office and in the field. It's strengthening your network safety and security while increasing customer satisfaction. With advancements in smart technologies, location intelligence for utilities management is not just for GIS specialists. In Delivering Water and Power: GIS for Utilities, see how public and private utilities around the world have implemented geographic information systems (GIS) to visualize and analyze data for situational awareness, operational efficiency, and asset management. In this collection of case studies and “how to” guidance, gain an overview of how GIS was used to: Protect customers in Denver through an innovative lead reduction program Streamline asset inspections in the UK Improve emergency response efforts in Puerto Rico Increase solar energy potential and adoption in Dubai Through web apps, online maps, dashboards, and other GIS solutions, utility professionals develop a deeper understanding of network maintenance and performance within a real-world context, increasing operational flexibility, creating a safer environment for workers, and raising customer satisfaction. Discover how GIS and location intelligence modernize utility infrastructure and operations for improved service delivery and management with Delivering Water and Power: Applying GIS for Utilities.

Sustainable Water Engineering introduces the latest thinking from academic, stakeholder and practitioner perspectives who address challenges around flooding, water quality issues, water supply, environmental quality and the future for sustainable water engineering. In addition, the book addresses historical legacies, strategies at multiple scales, governance and policy. - Offers well-structured content that is strategic in its approach - Covers up-to-date issues and examples from both developed and developing nations - Include the latest research in the field that is ideal for undergraduates and post-graduate researchers - Presents real world applications, showing how engineers, environmental consultancies and international institutions can use the concepts and strategies

Water resource systems and technologies are important fields in engineering today. This book will discuss various areas on water resource management. Topics discussed include water harvesting techniques, waste water purification, and urban water systems as well as concrete, pavement, and mortar stabilizers, and earthquake resistance technologies and how they relate to water management systems.

Infrastructure that manages our water resources (such as, dams and reservoirs, irrigation systems, channels, navigation waterways, water and wastewater treatment facilities, storm drainage systems, urban water distribution and sanitation systems), are critical to all sectors of an economy. Realizing the importance of water infrastructures, efforts have already begun on understanding the sustainability and resilience of such systems under changing conditions expected in the future. The goal of this collected work is to raise awareness among civil engineers of the various implications of landscape change and non-climate drivers on the resilience of water management infrastructure. It identifies the knowledge gaps and then provides effective and complementary approaches to assimilate knowledge discovery on local (mesoscale)-to-regional landscape drivers to improve practices on design, operations and preservation of large water infrastructure systems.

Drinking Water: Quality Control, Distribution Systems and Treatment focuses on some of the technologies involved in water treatment processes, such as adsorption, co-precipitation, flocculation, and coagulation. The authors emphasize the newest easy processes, inadequacies, and prospects of drinking water treatment. In one study, a simple effective intervention for biochanin A in influent water using ZSM-5, a nano-porous crystalline zeolite, is described. In closing, a Sphingomonas paucimobilis strain isolated from an Indian drinking water system was evaluated for its ability to co-aggregate and form mixed biofilms with Salmonella typhimurium, Shigella flexneri, and Escherichia coli O57:H7.

Population growth, increasing living standards, and rapidly changing climate have resulted in an increasing demand for freshwater, accelerating the water degradation challenges. There is a compelling need to minimize water consumption and develop approaches to effectively manage existing water resources. On a positive note, water resource management strategies discussed in this book present innovative ways to conserve both quality and quantity. Chapter 1 discusses decentralized water management approaches for intervening the urban water cycle to minimize the environmental and socioeconomic impacts. This chapter concludes with a need to use a suite of tools based on decision support systems for managing urban water resources. Chapter 2 discusses the need for assessing suitability of various types of models for a specific scenario based on the required level of complexity. This chapter discusses in detail the underlying criteria behind model selection, validation, and uncertainty analysis. Urban watersheds can be more challenging compared to natural watersheds. The urban watersheds include parking lots, roads, and developed structures, all of which contribute to a myriad of anthropogenic pollutants through stormwater runoff. Computer-based models can be used to study water quality issues and to develop a plan to manage watershed level resources. Chapter 3 compares pros and cons of the state-of-the-art watershed models used for managing water resources. Numerical simulations can be performed to compare the current and future water quality scenarios of a given watershed and to estimate the impact of potential water resource management strategies. Chapter 4 presents a case study of an urban region in Hanoi, Vietnam. Water evaluation and planning simulation tool was used to predict the trends and drivers of wastewater generation. Considering rapidly changing climate and associated weather impacts, it is critical to secure water resources in addition to dealing with the water quality issues. Chapter 5 suggests that climate change models and watershed and precipitation models should be jointly used in order to capture uncertainties in ecological functions, energy and food production and water supply sources. Chapter 6 presents a water use estimation and management tool that examines the effect of climate change and drought conditions on water supplies to ensure adequate buffalo forage. Sustaining both buffalo forage and water supplies during drought conditions requires preparedness and adaptation in response to unfavorable conditions. Finally, water reuse can alleviate the stress on available water resources. For example, effluents from wastewater treatment plants and desalination plants can be treated and reused for managing water crisis. Chapter 7 emphasizes that it is critical to optimize both economical and sustainability parameters during treatment of wastewater effluents and desalination concentrate. In certain cases, valuable metals can be recovered from the concentrate.

La complejidad que de ordinario acompaña a los estudios sobre elagua y su cultura, es debida, en parte, a la rica variedad de usos y significadosque se dan cita en un elemento tan esencial e imprescindible para elser humano, como recurso natural y medio primordial de subsistencia,presente en el desarrollo de la vida y sociedades. Además de representarun elemento de diferenciación paisajística, contribuyendo sus componentesal enriquecimiento y configuración histórica del territorio a lo largo delos siglos, materializado en múltiples formas, que van desde su captación,a los complejos sistemas para su circulación, modos de suministro y utilización,desarrollando toda una tipología de construcciones singulares,de morfologías y destinos muy variados, de innegable valor patrimonial.El contenido de este libro surge del intento de analizar algunos de losmúltiples aspectos del agua y de los recursos hídricos en la Edad Moderna,ya sean destinados al abastecimiento humano, como al riego o la actividadagrícola, organizando este material en torno al motivo principal desu narración: la Arquitectura del Agua y el Territorio. Sobre estos datosde partida, tal proceso se traduce en toda una serie de aportaciones yenfoques multidisciplinares a cargo de especialistas en distintas disciplinas,en los que se va analizando la incidencia e importancia del agua en losdistintos territorios peninsulares durante el Antiguo Régimen, tanto enlas ciudades y villas de la fachada cantábrica (País Vasco, Asturias, Galicia),sureste (Murcia, Valencia) y meridional (Andalucía), como en los de lavecina Portugal.Esta visión ampliada y transversal de los lugares y paisajes del agua ensu devenir histórico, supone una alianza entre técnica y patrimonio cultural,de contrastado valor, ayudando a la configuración de la cultura territorial,que explican la vida de las comunidades anteriores y presentes,algunos de cuyos vestigios y señales han desaparecido irremediablemente,mientras otros permanecen como legado del pasado y memoria de la sociedadque los ha generado y mantenido.La importancia del agua en las ciudades, entre los siglos xv y xvi, esanalizada en la primera de las aportaciones, bajo el título Abastecimientode agua y eliminación de residuos en las villas vascas durante eltránsito del Medievo a la Modernidad. El manejo de fuentes documentales,cartográficas y arqueológicas permite a su autor el análisis de lascomplejas fórmulas de abastecimiento de los recursos hídricos en losprincipales centros urbanos bajomedievales del País Vasco, a través de lasfuentes públicas, atendiendo a sus características constructivas, topográficasy funcionales, así como al desarrollo de los sistemas de evacuación deresiduos fuera de las poblaciones.En La influencia del agua en la morfología urbana y arquitectónicade Caravaca de la Cruz (Región de Murcia, sureste de España) seofrece una nueva visión, reflexionando sobre la influencia ejercida por elagua a lo largo de la historia urbana y arquitectónica en el área de estudio,dando a conocer las características de los manantiales o fuentes existentes,y catalogando las infraestructuras hidráulicas asociadas al aprovechamientodel agua, poniendo en valor el patrimonio hidráulico existente y estableciendouna serie de propuestas para su recuperación en la normativaurbanística y de ordenación del territorio.Dos de los artículos atienden, de modo especial, al problema del abastecimientoy traídas de agua a ciudades españolas en el siglo xvi.En el primero de ellos, Entre Galicia y Asturias: las relaciones profesionalesde Gonzalo de la Bárcena, Fontanero del Rey, su autora vuelvea profundizar en el estudio de la actividad de este maestro trasmerano,uno de los mejores profesionales en materia de fontanería de la segundamitad del siglo xvi, con amplia participación en el diseño de las fuentesde las principales ciudades del ámbito aragonés, castellano, gallego y asturiano. En esta ocasión, centra su estudio en el territorio gallego, puntode arranque de

Ageing infrastructure and declining water resources are major concerns with a growing global population. Controlling water loss has therefore become a priority for water utilities around the world. In order to improve their efficiencies, water utilities need to apply good practice in leak detection. To deal with losses in an effective manner, particularly from networks in water-scarce areas, water utility managers are increasingly turning to technology to reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve reliability. Companies that continuously invest in technology and innovation should see a positive return on investment in terms of improving daily operations and collection and analysis of network data for decision making and forward planning. Methodologies for achieving the best results to reduce water losses are continuously evolving. Water utilities and equipment manufacturers are increasingly working together to stretch the boundaries of current knowledge. This is leading to some innovative technologies and new product development to complement current methodologies. This book reflects the situation at the time of publication. This 2nd edition of the book updates practices and technologies that have been introduced or further developed in recent years in leakage detection outlining recent advancements in technology used, such as satellite aided methods in leak location, pipeline inspection with thermal diagnostics, inspection of pipelines by air using infra-red or thermal imaging cameras, Drones for leak detection activities and even sniffing dogs. In addition, it is enriched with new case studies which provide useful examples of practical applications of several leak detection practices and technologies.

The Mihouse project is the result of an interinstitutional and interdisciplinary work developed by professors and students from the faculties of engineering, economic sciences and social communication of the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (UAO) and architecture at the Universidad de San Buenaventura (USB) both located in Cali, Colombia.

Water and wastewater treatment normally take place in a series of continuous flow units, each designed to perform a step of the intended purification process - typically involving coagulation or flocculation, sedimentation or filtration, and disinfection. The flow pattern governs the residence/contact time, turbulence levels, collisions and shear to which different fluid portions are subjected in their passage through the unit. The efficiency of a given unit depends as much on the relevant physical, chemical or biological reaction as on the flow pattern taking place inside. This combined effect of flow features on process efficiency is often overlooked in teaching the design of water and wastewater treatment units, and so it is not uncommon to find treatment units in operating in a cost-ineffective way, causing health and environmental problems.This book introduces engineering students to concepts and practical measures associated with the rational design of treatment units, leading to more realistic and potentially optimal solutions for new units as well as for retrofitting existing units. Key basic concepts and suitable analytical tools are described, illustrated and worked through using practical examples.Engineering undergraduates and graduates should benefit from the book while undertaking standalone modules on the topic and/or supplementary classes of existing courses on unit treatment processes. The book may also be useful for technical and engineering staff involved in designing and/or retrofitting units for better cost-effectiveness and footprint reduction of the water and wastewater treatment sector.

The availability of Earth observation and numerical weather prediction data for hydrological modelling and water management has increased significantly, creating a situation that today, for the same variable, estimates may be available from two or more sources of information. Yet, in hydrological modelling, usually, a particular set of catchment characteristics and input data is selected, possibly ignoring other relevant data sources. In this thesis, therefore, a framework is being proposed to enable effective use of multiple data sources in hydrological modelling. In this framework, each available data source is used to derive catchment parameter values or input time series. Each unique combination of catchment and input data sources thus leads to a different hydrological simulation result: a new ensemble member. Together, the members form an ensemble of hydrological simulations. By following this approach, all available data sources are used effectively and their information is preserved. The framework also accommodates for applying multiple data-model integration methods, e.g. data assimilation. Each alternative integration method leads to yet another unique simulation result. Case study results for a distributed hydrological model of Rijnland, the Netherlands, show that the framework can be applied effectively, improve discharge simulation, and partially account for parameter and data uncertainty.

Inhaltlich mit Wasserwirtschaft 4.0 und Building Information Modeling (BIM) erweitert und an die aktuellen Anforderungen an Planung, Betrieb, Instandhaltung und Management angepasst, liegt das Taschenbuch der Wasserversorgung nun in der 17. Auflage vor. Es erläutert den derzeitigen Stand der Technik, zeigt die wirtschaftlichen und rechtlichen Aspekte bei Planung, Ausführung und Instandhaltung von Wasserversorgungsanlagen und nennt das aktuelle technische Regelwerk (DGW Arbeitsblätter, DIN-Normen, Eurocodes) sowie die einschlägigen Gesetze, Verordnungen und Richtlinien. In dieser Breite ist es ein einzigartiges Nachschlagewerk für alle, die sich mit den Aufgaben der Wasserversorgung beschäftigen.Das Taschenbuch der Wasserversorgung ist ein seit mehr als 60 Jahren anerkanntes, handliches Fachbuch, das alle Bereiche der Wasserversorgung umfasst. Dieses Buch begleitet als umfassendes, übersichtliches und unerlässliches Standardwerk in der Wasserversorgung tätige Ingenieure von ihrem Studium in den Beruf und durch die Karrierestufen hindurch.

Dieses Fachbuch wurdeim Hinblick auf die Neufassungen zahlreicher Umweltgesetze aktualisiert. Zu nennen istinsbesondere die Änderung des Wasserhaushaltsgesetz (WHG). Des Weiterenist der Stand der Arbeiten im Rahmen der Umsetzung der EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie fortgeschrieben. Hierbeisind die Erfahrungen mit den Maßnahmenprogrammen dargestellt.Insgesamt wird ein geschlossenes Bild für Planung und Durchführung naturnaher Maßnahmen an unserenFließgewässern vorgestellt. Umfassende Hinweise zur aktuellen rechtlichen Situation, zum Planungsablauf und auf neue Aspektebei der Gewässerunterhaltung sind ebenso enthalten wie hydrologische, hydraulische und sedimentologische Grundlagen. Technik und Ökologie sind in diesem Werk über den naturnahen Wasserbau gleichwertige Partner. Es wendet sich in fachübergreifender Blickweise an die in Wasserwirtschafts- und Naturschutzverwaltungen sowie in Planungsbüros tätigen Ingenieure, Landespfleger und Biologen sowie an alle, die für Ausbau und Unterhaltung von Fließgewässern zuständig oder daran interessiert sind.

Karst terrains have been modified and adapted through a range of human activities as the need for flood control, irrigation, food production, hydropower production and other resources has increased. Successful reclamation projects require construction of dams and reservoirs. Karst terrains present the most complex working conditions for dam foundation and realization of safe reservoir space. Practical engineering solutions are extremely complex and the need for successful solution requires serious investigations and the cooperation of a wide spectrum of scientists and engineers. A wealth of data on dam projects in karst has been collected and presented in this book. Since reservoirs in karst may fail to fill despite extensive investigations and remediation treatment the book includes a description of failures as well.

The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations. This book investigates the implications of different developments in water technology and infrastructure for urban sustainability and the relationship between cities and nature. The book begins by outlining five frameworks for analysing water technologies and systems - sustainable development, ecological modernisation, socio-technical systems, political ecology and radical ecology. It then analyses in detail what the sustainability implications are of different technical developments in water systems, specifically: demand management, sanitation, urban drainage, water reuse and desalination. The main purpose of the book is to draw out the social, political and ethical implications of technical changes that are occurring in urban water systems around the world, with positive and negative impacts on sustainability. Distinguished from existing social science analysis due to its attention to the engineering details of the technology, this book will be of use to a wide audience, including students on water management courses, engineering students and researchers, urban geographers and planners interested in sustainability, infrastructure and critical ecology.