Drinking Water Security for Engineers, Planners, and Managers - Integrated Water Security Series

Informationen zum Autor Ravi Jain is Dean and Professor of the School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from California State University, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Texas Tech. He studied public administration and public policy at Harvard, earning an M.P.A. degree and did additional graduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Klappentext Concise and readable! Drinking Water Security for Engineers! Planners and Managers provides an overview of issues including infrastructure planning! planning to evaluate vulnerabilities and potential threats! capital improvement planning! and maintenance and risk management. This book also covers topics regarding potential contaminants! available water security technologies! analytical methods! and sensor technologies and networks. Other topics include transport and containment of contaminated water! treatment technologies and the treatability of contaminants.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Threats
Chapter 3: Prevention
Chapter 4: Detection
Chapter 5: Response
Chapter 6: Rehabilitation
Chapter 7: Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Mary Kay Camarillo, Ravi Jain, William T. Stringfellow
• Assisted by: Ravi Jain (Editor), Jain Ravi (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2014
• EAN: 9780124114661
• ISBN: 978-0-12-411466-1
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply, Water supply & treatment, Water supply and treatment