The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry - 30: Potable Water - Emerging Global Problems and Solutions

This volume presents a unique and comprehensive glimpse of current and emerging issues of concern related to potable water. The themes discussed include: (1) historical perspective of the evolution of drinking water science and technology and drinking water standards and regulations; (2) emerging contaminants, water distribution problems and energy demand for water treatment and transportation; and (3) using alternative water sources and methods of water treatment and distribution that could resolve current and emerging global potable problems. This volume will serve as a valuable resource for researchers and environmental engineering students interested in global potable water sustainability and a guide to experts affiliated with international agencies working toward providing safe water to global communities.

List of contents

Potable Water Quality Standards and Regulations: A Historical and World Overview.- Global Potable Water: Current Status, Critical Problems and Future Perspectives.- Coping with Emerging Contaminants in Potable Water Sources.- Drinking Water Distribution: Emerging Issue in Minor Water Systems.- The Effects of Water Energy Nexus on Potable Water Supplies.- Municipal Wastewater - A Rediscovered Resource for Sustainable Water Reuse.- Advances in Desalinisation Technologies: Solar Desalinisation.- Bottled Water: Global Impacts and Potential.

Summary

This volume presents a unique and comprehensive glimpse of current and emerging issues of concern related to potable water. The themes discussed include: (1) historical perspective of the evolution of drinking water science and technology and drinking water standards and regulations; (2) emerging contaminants, water distribution problems and energy demand for water treatment and transportation; and (3) using alternative water sources and methods of water treatment and distribution that could resolve current and emerging global potable problems. This volume will serve as a valuable resource for researchers and environmental engineering students interested in global potable water sustainability and a guide to experts affiliated with international agencies working toward providing safe water to global communities.

Product details

• Assisted by: A Grady (Editor), A Grady (Editor), Caitlin A Grady (Editor), Caitlin A. Grady (Editor), Tami Younos (Editor), Tamim Younos (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319343303
• ISBN: 978-3-31-934330-3
• No. of pages: 233
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 13 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 388 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 233 p. 45 illus., 33 illus. in color.
• Sets: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry; The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
• Series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry; The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Analytische Chemie, Geochemie, C, Hydrologie und die Hydrosphäre, Water, Earth and Environmental Science, Water pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, Water supply & treatment, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Water quality, Analytical Chemistry, water quality and water pollution