Drinking Water Treatment - Focusing on Appropriate Technology and Sustainability (Hardcover, Edition.)

Sustainable technologies for water supply are urgently needed if water has to be supplied to billions of less fortunate people with inadequate access to water. These technologies must be simple, less expensive, less energy intensive, and easy to maintain for their adaptation among the poor masses. Four appropriate technologies are discussed here: solar pasteurization, membrane desalination, natural filtration (riverbank filtration), and solar distillation. Solar pasteurization can be a useful means of producing water at remote, but sunny locations where fuel may not be easily available for boiling water. Membrane desalination will remain as a viable means of drinking water production for individual households to large communities. Various membrane filtration techniques as well as the means to "democratize" membrane filtration have been presented. Riverbank filtration is a "natural" filtration technique where drinking water is produced by placing wells on the banks of rivers. The riverbed/bank material and the underlying aquifer act as natural filters to remove pollutants from river water. Solar distillation can be a viable method of drinking water production for individual households to small communities without the input of external energy. Sustainability framework and technology transfer are discussed through transdisciplinary analysis.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Strategies for Sustainability
Release date:	June 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	Chittaranjan Ray • Ravi Jain
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
Edition:	Edition.
ISBN-13:	978-9400711037
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > General Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Sanitary & municipal engineering > Water supply & treatment > General
LSN:	9400711034
Barcode:	9789400711037

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