Author: The World Economic Forum Water Initiative
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: water, nexus, climate, food, security, energy
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2011-01-19
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1597267368
ISBN-13: 9781597267366
The world is on the brink of the greatest crisis it has ever faced: a spiraling lack of fresh water. Groundwater is drying up, even as water demands for food production, for energy, and for manufacturing are surging. Water is already emerging as a headline geopolitical issue?and worsening water security will soon have dire consequences in many parts of the global economic system.Directed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the 2008 Davos Annual Meeting, the World Economic Forum assembled the worlds foremost group of public, private, non-governmental-organization and academic experts to ex
Author: Committee on USGS Water Resources Research Nation
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: water, national, information, program, paradigm, new, united, states, estimating
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2002-08-22
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0309084830
ISBN-13: 9780309084833
Author: Jo-Shing Yang
Publisher: Earth EcoSciences Publishing Company
Keywords: water, treatment, wastewater, small, site, sustainability, sufficiency, systems, paradigms, crises, amp, design, planning, engineering, solving, ecological, global, new
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2007-10-20
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0976168952
ISBN-13: 9780976168959
Author: World Water Assessment Programme
Publisher: Berghahn Book
Keywords: water, development, report, world, united, shared, responsibility, nations
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2006-05-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9231040065
ISBN-13: 9789231040061
Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: water, drinking, supply, community, surveillance, guidelines, control
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1997
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 9241545038
ISBN-13: 9789241545037
A comprehensive guide to all practical procedures and technical measures required to ensure the safety of drinking-water supplies in small communities and periurban areas of developing countries. Now in its second edition, the book has been vastly expanded in line with broadened appreciation for the many factors that influence water quality and determine its impact on health. Revisions and additions also reflect considerable new knowledge about the specific technical and social interventions that have the greatest chance of success in situations where resources are scarce and logistic problems
Author: American Water Works Associatio
Publisher: Amer Water Works A
Keywords: water, supply, operations, practices, principles, treatment, introduction
Number of Pages: 381
Published: 1984-02-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0898671809
ISBN-13: 9780898671803
Author: American Water Works Associatio
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: handbook, treatment, quality, water
Number of Pages: 1248
Published: 1999-10-30
List price: $142.00
ISBN-10: 0070016593
ISBN-13: 9780070016590
State-of-the-art handbook of community water supplies.The leading source of information on water quality, water treatment, and quality control for 60 years is now available in an up-to-the-minute new edition. The American Water Works Association’s Water Quality & Treatment, Fifth Edition fully covers the field, bringing you the expertise of 20 distinguished specialists who provide the latest information on everything from aeration and coagulation processes, to chemical oxidation and water plant waste management. At least 90% of the material in this new edition has been revised and update
