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Symposium LL, 'Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management
XXXVI', was held November 25-30 at the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting in
Boston, Massachusetts. This Symposium continues to set the research
agenda in the field of radioactive waste management, charting the
development of waste processing, conditioning, packaging and
disposal. Symposium XXXVI featured 77 presentations, delivered over
four days during the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting, from participants in
Australia, Austria, Finland, France, Japan, Russia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
Sessions reported on advances in glass and ceramic wasteforms,
conditioning of technetium, management of spent nuclear fuel, and
geological disposal, plus a special joint session with Symposium
HH, on radiation effects in nuclear materials. Each paper provides
a snapshot of the exciting recent developments in each of these
areas and the international progress toward achieving the safe,
timely and cost-effective management and disposal of radioactive
wastes.
The formation, control, and health effects of DBPs in drinking
water are issues of international concern because of the health
effects (e.g., bladder cancer and potential adverse
reproductive-development impacts) associated with exposure to
certain DBPs. As a result, many countries, as well as the World
Health Organization, have regulations and/or guidelines on
acceptable concentrations of DBPs in water. In recent years, DBP
research worldwide has focused on determining the possible adverse
health effects of emerging, yet unregulated, DBPs, specifically
halogenated (e.g., iodinated) and non-halogenated nitrogenous
(e.g., nitrosamines) DBPs. The breadth of DBP research is very
broad from source waters (e.g., wastewater, wildfire, seawater
intrusion influences) to treatment strategies and technologies,
followed by distribution system and point of entry issues (e.g.,
biofilms, heating, swimming pools), as well as health effects and
analytical method developments. Recent research is helping to
understand factors controlling formation and to develop a
cost-effective control of a wide range of regulated and emerging
DBPs. Furthermore, the pace of research on emerging DBP toxicity
has increased and generated diverse findings, with comparative
toxicity and the molecular mechanisms leading to improved
understanding of their toxicity pathways and potential adverse
biological effects. This book represents the latest research
efforts to understanding these important DBP-related issues. The
authors of the chapters in this book are a multidisciplinary group
of scientists and engineers, who are conducting studies in many
parts of the world. The chapters in this book address both
regulated and emerging DBPs and are organized under the sections on
DBP toxicology and health effects, modeling of DBP formation,
precursors and reactions involving nitrosamines, and formation of
halogenated DBPs. This book will be of interest to researchers,
drinking water utility scientists and engineers, toxicologists,
epidemiologists, and regulators interested in the formation and
control of and exposure to DBPs.
We are becoming increasingly aware of the overwhelming pollution of
our limited water resources on this planet. And while many
contaminants originate from Mother Earth, most water pollution
comes as a direct result of anthropogenic activities. This problem
has become so immense that it threatens the future of all humanity.
If effective measures to reduce and/or remediate water pollution
and its sources are not found, it is estimated by UN that 2.7
billion people will face water shortage by 2025 as opposed to 1.2
billion people who do not have access to clean drinking water now.
Therefore, development of novel green technologies to address this
major problem represents a priority of the highest importance. This
book discusses green chemistry and other novel solutions to the
water pollution problems which includes some interesting
applications of nanoparticles. Novel Solutions to Water Pollution
is a useful and informative text for those engaged in issues of
water quality and water pollution remediation at operational,
administrative, academic, or regulatory levels.
This book addresses paradigm shifts in water policy and governance,
and examines the role of civil society organizations in influencing
public policy, while focusing on social equity and democratic
participation. It illustrates a range of interesting developments
in policy formulation, donor-state nexus, and interventions by
civil society and voluntary organizations. The collection of
articles provides a comprehensive and current narrative of the
state-society relations in South Asia under neoliberal governance
reforms, their implications and key responses with regard to water
policies. Using case studies, it closely investigates the impact,
effectiveness, drawbacks and challenges faced by voluntary
organizations and social movements working at various levels in the
water sector. The work will interest researchers and students of
development studies, environmental studies, natural resource
management, water governance, and public administration, as also
water sector professionals, policymakers, civil society activists
and governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Globalization has significantly redefined the nature of governance
in the water sector. Non-state actors-multilateral and
transnational donor agencies and corporations, non-government
organizations, markets, and civil society at large-are assuming a
bigger role in public policy-making for water resource management.
New discourses on neoliberalism, integrated water resource
management (IWRM), public-private partnerships, privatization, and
gender equity have come to influence water governance. Drawing upon
detailed case studies from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and
Bhutan, this volume shows the implications of these new global
paradigms for water allocation and management practices,
institutions and governance structures in South Asia. It suggests
that, despite claims to the contrary, they have done little to
further human well-being, reduce gender disparity, or improve
accountability and transparency in the system. Steering away from
blueprint approaches, it argues for a more nuanced and contextual
understanding of water management challenges, based on local
knowledge and initiatives. This book will be useful to those
interested in political economy and water governance, natural
resource management, environmental studies, development studies,
and public administration, as well as to water professionals,
policy-makers and civil society activists.
For a senior- or graduate-level first course in water-resources
engineering offered in civil and environmental engineering degree
programs. A prerequisite course in fluid mechanics and calculus up
to differential equations is assumed. Water-Resources Engineering
provides comprehensive coverage of hydraulics, hydrology, and
water-resources planning and management. Presented from first
principles, the material is rigorous, relevant to the practice of
water resources engineering, and reinforced by detailed
presentations of design applications.
The book "Green Technologies for the Environment" brings together
experts in the field of biotechnology, chemistry, chemical
engineering, environmental engineering and toxicology from both
academia and industry, to discuss green processes for the
environment. The topics included finding replacements for crude oil
to meet both our energy needs as well as the supply of chemicals
for the production of essential products, advances in chemical
processing, waste valorization, alternative solvents, and
developments in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis as well as
enzyme-based processes for chemical transformations. Advances in
green chemistry concepts will further enhance the field through the
design of new chemicals and solvents. In addition, obtaining a
better understanding of the mechanistic pathways involved in
various reactions is essential toward advances in the field. The
goal of the work described in each of the chapters is to address
the need for best practices for chemical processes and for the
production of chemicals, while promoting sustainability.
Evolutionary algorithms and allied fields are getting more
visibility as well as familiarity due to their numerous
flexibilities such as handling high-dimensional non-linear problems
and more. This book will help budding researchers to formulate
their research problems, and comprises 10 chapters: three on
optimization, five on machine learning algorithms, one on Internet
of Things, and one on remote sensing. In Focus - a book series that
showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book
focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the
field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and
inspire further conversations in the sector.
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SARS-CoV-2 in Water
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Eiji Haramoto, Gertjan J. Medema, John Scott Meschke, Susan Petterson
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This book brings together cutting-edge studies and reviews on the
water-related health aspects of SARS-CoV-2, contributed by our
research community. The contributions are related to the potential
risk of waterborne COVID-19 transmission, household water uses, and
hygiene during the pandemic, and surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in
wastewater. In Focus - a book series that showcases the latest
accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a
specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims
to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further
conversations in the sector.
The influence of landscapes - topography, soil, vegetation, geology
- on water quality is an inherent part of the global water cycle.
Land use has adverse impacts for example when soils are exposed,
significant quantities of pollutants are released (including
anthropogenic materials added to those naturally present), or
pollutants are added directly to the water environment. Those
impacts range from industrial development to farming and
urbanisation. Whilst inefficient polluting industrial effluents are
still tolerated in some countries, and poorly treated sewage
globally remains a huge challenge for sanitation and public health,
as well as the water environment, diffuse pollution is relatively
poorly recognised or understood. The operator of a sewage or trade
effluent treatment plant is consciously discharging effluent to the
local river. But a farmer is simply growing crops or farming
livestock, a city commuter driving to work is unlikely to be
thinking how brake pad wear has released copper to the water (and
air) environment and hydrocarbons and particulates too; no one is
intending to cause pollution of the water environment. The same
applies to industrial chemists creating fire-proofing chemicals,
solvents, fertilisers, pesticides, cosmetics and many more
substances which contaminate the environment. Understanding and
ultimately minimising diffuse pollution is in that sense the
science of unintended consequences. And the consequences can be
severe, for water resources and ecosystems. It's a global problem.
This book comprises 18 papers from experts around the globe,
presenting evidence from tropical as well as temperate regions, and
rural as well as urban land use challenges. The book explores the
nature of diffuse pollution and exemplifies the issues at various
scales, from high-level national overviews to particular catchment
and pollutant issues. By contrast, natural or semi-natural forest
cover has long been recognised as safeguarding water quality in
reservoirs (examples from Australia to Thailand and UK). The final
chapter looks at how landscapes generally, can be designed to
minimise pollution risks from particular land-uses, arguing for a
more widespread catchment approach to water-aware landscape design,
allied with flood risk resilience, place-making for people, and
biodiversity opportunities too.
The water sector is in the middle of a paradigm shift from focusing
on treatment and meeting discharge permit limits to integrated
operation that also enables a circular water economy via water
reuse, resource recovery, and system level planning and operation.
While the sector has gone through different stages of such
revolution, from improving energy efficiency to recovering
renewable energy and resources, when it comes to the next step of
achieving carbon neutrality or negative emission, it falls behind
other infrastructure sectors such as energy and transportation. The
water sector carries tremendous potential to decarbonize, from
technological advancements, to operational optimization, to policy
and behavioural changes. This book aims to fill an important gap
for different stakeholders to gain knowledge and skills in this
area and equip the water community to further decarbonize the
industry and build a carbon-free society and economy. The book goes
beyond technology overviews, rather it aims to provide a system
level blueprint for decarbonization. It can be a reference book and
textbook for graduate students, researchers, practitioners,
consultants and policy makers, and it will provide practical
guidance for stakeholders to analyse and implement decarbonization
measures in their professions.
The book will cover a wide range of subjects related to rare earth
elements, including the sources, detection and applications of rare
earths, environmental and ecological issues related to rare earths,
recovery of rare earths using physical, chemical and biological
methods, recovery of rare earths from waste resources, conversion
of rare earths to nano-particles and their applications. It is
intended or all levels of teaching and research from senior
undergraduate to higher levels and to those who are working on
metal/metalloids more particularly focused on rare earth elements
from a science, engineering, health and environmental perspective.
The book's primary intention is to serve as a roadmap for
professionals working in developing countries interested in the
Nexus Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) approach. The book shows
a multi-disciplinary approach, showcasing the importance of the
proper use of Nexus WEFE when implementing certain development
programs in regions around the globe. It can be presented as a
manual for an individual that either wishes to implement
intervention projects following the NEXUS approach or students
interested in cooperation and development. The book begins with a
general explanation of the theoretical concepts and implementation
processes of Nexus WEFE and continues getting into case studies,
explaining the importance of proper implementation and potential
drawbacks and solutions to them. This book has a particular focus
on the European Union cooperation policies when implementing such
an approach in developing countries.
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Making Water Smart
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Matthew J Wade, Edward C. Keedwell, Jean-Philippe Steyer, M. Victoria Ruano Garcia
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This chapters in this book highlight the breadth of smart water
technologies and applications. From the use of classical machine
learning and data transformation methods for process improvement,
to data management and assimilation in models for better monitoring
control, a selection of these chapters describes the acquisition
and preparation of data as an initial step in its use as part of a
digital framework for smart water applications. Importantly,
several chapters examine the use of smart tools and contemporary AI
technologies, such as neural networks and Internet of Things, that
demonstrate value in non-conventional or remote environments. This
collection demonstrates the innovation possible through the entire
'pipeline' of the process of applying smart water techniques, from
data measurement and collection, through initial analysis to the
application of machine learning and AI techniques and finally
through to system deployment. Each of these steps plays an
important role in the application of data science and AI techniques
to water problems. Collectively, the book showcases the innovation
required to leverage modern data science and AI approaches in the
water sector and collectively point the way towards a future of new
measurement techniques, innovative methodologies, and intuitive
human interaction to truly 'Make Water Smart'. In Focus - a book
series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research.
Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts
in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding
and inspire further conversations in the sector.
Water Resilience in Practice is co-edited by two experienced water
sector professionals and reviews resilience in water supply service
delivery. This will be in the form of a series of case studies from
different economic contexts - ranging from low-income and fragile
states to upper income countries. It will document real experiences
and reflect on the initiatives different service providers apply to
strengthen resilience in practice. It will describe how service
providers respond, adapt, innovate and learn on an ongoing basis,
and how they endeavour to meet challenges and provide water supply
to users equitably and sustainably. In recent years climate
resilience in water supply has been a new emerging paradigm. In
response it is helpful to document and record some up-to-date
experiences, which can be consolidated in one place. However, it is
also necessary to recognise the multiple pressures that water
resources face, such as: population growth, increased water
demands, existing climatic variability as well as climate change.
These pressures are having a profound impact on water supply
service delivery. In this context service providers and development
professionals must take active measures to respond to these risks.
This book is primarily addressed to organisations and practitioners
involved in planning, designing, managing and financing water
supply programmes in urban and rural settings.
Improving and managing universal services of water and sanitation
in a holistic manner is critical to achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals, and addressing the needs of millions of people
around the world. Ensuring access to water services is a key factor
in working towards the SDGs, and water service delivery planning
can support utilities in improving provision of these services. A
service delivery plan identifies the actions required and
associated costs for achieving a defined level of water services
delivery over a defined period of time. This publications is a
guideline or how-to manual on preparing water service delivery
plans with a focus on small to medium sized organised water
utilities having with approximately 5,000 to over 100,000
connections mainly in areas with limited capacity and resources.
The manual is simplified enough to ensure that these utilities are
able to move from a situation where they are struggling to deliver
water services to where basic service levels in terms of water
quality, quantity, accessibility, reliability, affordability, and
acceptability are met. Meeting these basic service levels provides
a strong foundation for the utility to progressively move up the
ladder of delivering improved services.
The pressure on available freshwater resources due to urbanization
and climate change impacts is increasing worldwide; so follows the
need to explore unconventional resources. Water reuse and
desalination are viable options for alternative water supplies,
also for regions that had no need to consider these approaches in
the past. However, these solutions need to be tailored to local
conditions, be balanced against conventional supply options while
minimizing any adverse health and environmental impacts. There is
increasing interest in developing new planning tools, technological
solutions and approaches in this field to foster safe and
economically viable water reuse and desalination applications. The
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) realized
these needs at an early stage and launched the major funding
initiative 'WavE' (www.bmbf-wave.de/en) in 2016 entitled
'Future-oriented Technologies and Concepts to Increase Water
Availability by Water Reuse and Desalination' within the framework
program 'Research for Sustainable Development (FONA)' and the
research agenda on Green Economy. WavE is aimed at developing
innovative technologies and management concepts to foster a
sustainable increase in water availability. The aim is to provide
sustainable solutions for national and international applications.
This book reports research highlights from comprehensive research
projects addressing contemporary approaches to evaluate new
technologies and concepts in non-potable water reuse applications,
multi-barrier concepts for potable and non-potable reuse
applications, concepts for industrial reuse and resource recovery
approaches for brine streams, as well as onsite desalination
technologies for developing communities. In Focus - a book series
that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each
book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in
the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and
inspire further conversations in the sector.
As our infrastructure transitions from wastewater treatment to
resource recovery, so must our models evolve to address the needs
this transition brings. Nutrient recovery, energy production or
neutrality, biomass specialization for new conversion pathways,
green-house gas mitigation and more stringent effluent limits for
water reclamation are driving new model development efforts and
increasingly sophisticated applications of modelling. These new
needs enlarge the range of biological, physical and chemical
mechanisms that we need to consider in our models. Exchanging and
capitalizing on this knowledge are key challenges for modellers
that will bring benefits to design, operation, teaching and
research. These nine chapters were selected for this book as they
contribute to various aspects of the field of modelling water
resource recovery facilities (WRRFs). This includes a review on the
outlook and challenges of WRRF modelling; plant-wide aspects of
modelling; modelling biofilms for MBBRs; biological nutrient
removal systems; process controls; compartmental modelling and
thermal hydrolysis processes. In Focus - a book series that
showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book
focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the
field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and
inspire further conversations in the sector.
Today, multi-disciplinarity is the key to tackle challenges for the
sustainable management of water resources, especially considering
the increasing complexity in the water world. It is thus
fundamental to link the mathematical laws describing water bodies
and the new technologies given by the ICT and information science
scientific communities. The 16 chapters in this book cover five
main topics: numerical models to predict the water hydrodynamic in
terms of flow fields and contaminant dispersion; problems related
to floods in urban and coastal areas and to wastewater treatments;
problems concerning water distribution networks; hydrological and
climate change problems; and groundwater and erosion. The
complexity of the problems and the different approaches used within
the chapters of this book clearly show the multi-disciplinary
nature of the researche focused on water bodies. Thanks to the
vivacity of the hydroinformatics community, day by day fundamental
advances are made in understanding complex phenomena related to
water physics as well as in novel methodologies and tools to drive
sustainable and efficient management of natural and artificial
water systems. In Focus - a book series that showcases the latest
accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a
specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims
to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further
conversations in the sector.
Providing an extensive comparative and international study of water
innovations and the issues that arise in their implementation,
David Lewis Feldman analyses the technical, economic, health and
environmental impacts of water innovations and their policy
implications. Discussing desalination, rainwater harvesting,
wastewater reuse, and demand-side innovations as well as emerging
cyber-infrastructure issues, The Governance of Water Innovations
analyses the historical and contemporary challenges involved in
water innovations. With a global reach, exploring water innovations
across The Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe, chapters consider
potential areas of contention involving land use, aesthetics,
recreational impacts, user costs, and environmental quality.
Illuminating the importance of these challenges and determining the
most effective and equitable ways of meeting them, Feldman advises
how innovations should be deployed, governed and implemented
democratically in ways that harbour public acceptance, trust, and
engagement for a water resilient future. A comprehensive study of
the governance of water innovations, this book will prove
invaluable to students and scholars of public policy, environmental
and water studies and geopolitics. With its pioneering analysis of
adaptive governance, it will also prove an essential reference
guide to practitioners, professionals and policymakers working in
water governance and management, including water agency officials
and water resource legislators.
The anaerobic process is considered to be a sustainable technology
for organic waste treatment mainly due to its lower energy
consumption and production of residual solids coupled with the
prospect of energy recovery from the biogas generated. However, the
anaerobic process cannot be seen as providing the 'complete'
solution as its treated effluents would typically not meet the
desired discharge limits in terms of residual carbon, nutrients and
pathogens. This has given impetus to subsequent post treatment in
order to meet the environmental legislations and protect the
receiving water bodies and environment. This book discusses
anaerobic treatment from the perspective of organic wastes and
wastewaters (municipal and industrial) followed by various
post-treatment options for anaerobic effluent polishing and
resource recovery. Coverage will also be from the perspective of
future trends and thoughts on anaerobic technologies being able to
support meeting the increasingly stringent disposal standards. The
resource recovery angle is particularly interesting as this can
arguably help achieve the circular economy. It is intended the
information can be used to identify appropriate solutions for
anaerobic effluent treatment and possible alternative approaches to
the commonly applied post-treatment techniques. The succeeding
discussion is intended to lead on to identification of
opportunities for further research and development. This book can
be used as a standard reference book and textbook in universities
for Master and Doctoral students. The academic community relevant
to the subject, namely faculty, researchers, scientists, and
practicing engineers, will find the book both informative and as a
useful source of successful case studies.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy
highlights various aspects of economic and policy considerations as
they are applied to water decision-making and evaluation in a
comprehensive and clear manner. Key Features: Presents
example-based simplified descriptions of water problems and
economic principles used to address them Provides examples from
different countries and analysis of main water-using sectors
Highlights emerging topics in water economics that address water
scarcity and discusses economic and policy aspects related to the
management of water at local, regional and international scales
Researchers and students will appreciate the comprehensive,
straightforward presentation of critical information in this
Advanced Introduction that does not get lost in technical jargon.
This book highlights the impacts of emerging pollutants (both
organic and inorganic) in water bodies and the role and
performances of different water and wastewater treatment approaches
that are presently being employed in the field of environmental
engineering. Some of these approaches are focused on 'end-of-pipe'
treatment, while most of these approaches are focused on the
application of novel physic-chemical and biological techniques for
wastewater treatment and reuse. The goal of this book is to present
the emerging technologies and trends in the field of water and
wastewater treatment. The papers in this book provide clear proof
that environmentally friendly (bio)technologies are becoming more
and more important and playing a critical role in removing a wide
variety of organic and inorganic pollutants from water. In Focus -
a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water
research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from
top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth
understanding and inspire further conversations in the sector. This
book highlights the impacts of emerging pollutants (both organic
and inorganic) in water bodies and the role and performances of
different water and wastewater treatment approaches that are
presently being employed in the field of environmental engineering.
Some of these approaches are focused on 'end-of-pipe' treatment,
while most of these approaches are focused on the application of
novel physic-chemical and biological techniques for wastewater
treatment and reuse. The goal of this book is to present the
emerging technologies and trends in the field of water and
wastewater treatment. The papers in this book provide clear proof
that environmentally friendly (bio)technologies are becoming more
and more important and playing a critical role in removing a wide
variety of organic and inorganic pollutants from water. In Focus -
a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water
research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from
top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth
understanding and inspire further conversations in the sector. This
book highlights the impacts of emerging pollutants (both organic
and inorganic) in water bodies and the role and performances of
different water and wastewater treatment approaches that are
presently being employed in the field of environmental engineering.
Some of these approaches are focused on 'end-of-pipe' treatment,
while most of these approaches are focused on the application of
novel physic-chemical and biological techniques for wastewater
treatment and reuse. The goal of this book is to present the
emerging technologies and trends in the field of water and
wastewater treatment. The papers in this book provide clear proof
that environmentally friendly (bio)technologies are becoming more
and more important and playing a critical role in removing a wide
variety of organic and inorganic pollutants from water. In Focus -
a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water
research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from
top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth
understanding and inspire further conversations in the sector.
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