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This book deals with the water policy and management in Canada. It
discusses various problems and risks in the fresh and drinking
water supply in the second largest country in the world. Mohammed
Dore argues that water is underpriced and used wastefully in
Canada. In selected case studies, he illustrates the major threats
from human activity to Canadian freshwaters and drinking water
resources, including manufacturing, mining, oil sands production,
animal farming and agricultural use. Selected case studies include
reviews of even dramatic incidences, e.g. the Walkerton tragedy of
2000, when 7 people were killed and 200 went onto permanent
dialysis treatment because of water contamination with harmful
pathogens. The book warns that wastewater treatment standards are
often not sufficient, so that many drinking water resources are in
peril of wastewater contamination. As most of the water resources
are provincial responsibility, the book discusses the water
management policies in the different provinces separately. Through
a detailed discussion and statistical analyses, it can define water
policy and management lessons that emerge from the investigated
case studies. It ends by contrasting water policy and practice in
Canada with the practice in some European countries.
This book discusses different drinking water treatment technologies
and what contaminants each treatment method can remove, and at what
costs. The production of drinking water requires adequate
management. This book attempts to fill the existing knowlegde gap
about (a) water treatment technologies and their costs, (b) risk
assessment methods, (c) adverse health effects of chemical
contaminants, (d) management protocols, and varying regulatory
practices in different jurisdictions, and what successes are
possible even with small financial outlays. Addressing water
consulting engineers, politicians, water managers, ecosystem and
environmental activists, and water policy researchers, and being
clearly structured through a division in four parts, this book
considers theoretical aspects, technologies, chemical contaminants
and their possible elimination, and illustrates all aspects in
selected international case studies.Source-water protection, water
treatment technology, and the water distribution network are
critically reviewed and discussed. The book suggests improvements
for the management of risks and financial viability of the
treatment infrastructure, as well as ways toward an optimal
management of the distribution network through the risk-based
management of all infrastructure assets.
In dynamic investment planning the time of investment is a
significant issue. By simplifying the mathematical notation, the
author of this book seeks to make control theory a practical tool
that can be applied to the problem of timing. The book, first
published in 1977, begins with an introduction to one important
approach to control theory - dynamic programming. Then some of the
relevant literature that deals with investment decision-making is
reviewed. This is followed by a mathematically formulated planning
model. The computational aspects of the model are discussed and a
complete computer flow chart is given. The second part of the book
gives a thorough application of the theory by means of a detailed
case study - the planning of a steel industry. The case study
illustrates how a fairly abstract dynamic analysis can be
effectively integrated with practical decision-making concerns.
This book is ideal for students of economics and business.
In dynamic investment planning the time of investment is a
significant issue. By simplifying the mathematical notation, the
author of this book seeks to make control theory a practical tool
that can be applied to the problem of timing. The book, first
published in 1977, begins with an introduction to one important
approach to control theory - dynamic programming. Then some of the
relevant literature that deals with investment decision-making is
reviewed. This is followed by a mathematically formulated planning
model. The computational aspects of the model are discussed and a
complete computer flow chart is given. The second part of the book
gives a thorough application of the theory by means of a detailed
case study - the planning of a steel industry. The case study
illustrates how a fairly abstract dynamic analysis can be
effectively integrated with practical decision-making concerns.
This book is ideal for students of economics and business.
This book deals with the water policy and management in Canada. It
discusses various problems and risks in the fresh and drinking
water supply in the second largest country in the world. Mohammed
Dore argues that water is underpriced and used wastefully in
Canada. In selected case studies, he illustrates the major threats
from human activity to Canadian freshwaters and drinking water
resources, including manufacturing, mining, oil sands production,
animal farming and agricultural use. Selected case studies include
reviews of even dramatic incidences, e.g. the Walkerton tragedy of
2000, when 7 people were killed and 200 went onto permanent
dialysis treatment because of water contamination with harmful
pathogens. The book warns that wastewater treatment standards are
often not sufficient, so that many drinking water resources are in
peril of wastewater contamination. As most of the water resources
are provincial responsibility, the book discusses the water
management policies in the different provinces separately. Through
a detailed discussion and statistical analyses, it can define water
policy and management lessons that emerge from the investigated
case studies. It ends by contrasting water policy and practice in
Canada with the practice in some European countries.
This book discusses different drinking water treatment technologies
and what contaminants each treatment method can remove, and at what
costs. The production of drinking water requires adequate
management. This book attempts to fill the existing knowlegde gap
about (a) water treatment technologies and their costs, (b) risk
assessment methods, (c) adverse health effects of chemical
contaminants, (d) management protocols, and varying regulatory
practices in different jurisdictions, and what successes are
possible even with small financial outlays. Addressing water
consulting engineers, politicians, water managers, ecosystem and
environmental activists, and water policy researchers, and being
clearly structured through a division in four parts, this book
considers theoretical aspects, technologies, chemical contaminants
and their possible elimination, and illustrates all aspects in
selected international case studies.Source-water protection, water
treatment technology, and the water distribution network are
critically reviewed and discussed. The book suggests improvements
for the management of risks and financial viability of the
treatment infrastructure, as well as ways toward anĀ optimal
management of the distribution network through the risk-based
management of all infrastructure assets.
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