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  • Water Resources Planning, Development and Management
    Water Resources Planning, Development and Management NEW
    Editor Ralph Wurbs
    ISBN 978-953-51-1092-7
    182 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 228
    This book is a collection of innovative up-to-date perspectives on key aspects of water resources planning, development, and management of importance to both professional practitioners and researchers. Authors with outstanding expertise address a bro ...
  • Perspectives in Water Pollution
    Perspectives in Water Pollution
    Editor Imran Ahmad and Mithas Ahmad Dar
    ISBN 978-953-51-1076-7
    105 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 297
    Water is an important natural resource which forms the core of the ecological system. Human use of water depends on ambient water quality and human alterations of the landuse have an extensive influence on water quality. Water is typically referred t ...
  • International Perspectives on Water Quality Management and Pollutant Control
    International Perspectives on Water Quality Management and Pollutant Control
    Editor Nigel W.T. Quinn
    ISBN 978-953-51-0999-0
    121 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 388
    The level of surface water quality protection is variable around the world in large part due to the relative effectiveness of environmental regulation and the degree to which science influences the regulatory process. In the United States, at the fed ...
  • Search Algorithms for Engineering Optimization
    Search Algorithms for Engineering Optimization
    Editor Taufik Abrão
    ISBN 978-953-51-0983-9
    284 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 1977
    Heuristic Search is an important sub-discipline of optimization theory and finds applications in a vast variety of fields, including life science and engineering. Search methods have been useful in solving tough engineering-oriented problems that eit ...
  • Water Treatment
    Water Treatment
    Editor Walid Elshorbagy and Rezaul Kabir Chowdhury
    ISBN 978-953-51-0928-0
    380 pages, January, 2013
    Downloads: 1009
    Economic development, population growth, and environmental pollution evolving in many parts of the world are placing great demands on existing resources of fresh water and reflecting a "water crisis". Resource management, efficient utilization of the ...
  • Waste Water - Treatment Technologies and Recent Analytical Developments
    Waste Water - Treatment Technologies and Recent Analytical Developments
    Editor Fernando Sebastian García Einschlag and Luciano Carlos
    ISBN 978-953-51-0882-5
    196 pages, January, 2013
    Downloads: 838
    The generation of wastes as a result of human activities has been continuously speeding up since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Hence, both optimized waste water treatment technologies and modern tools to assess the effects of pollution ...
  • Water Supply System Analysis - Selected Topics
    Water Supply System Analysis - Selected Topics
    Editor Avi Ostfeld
    ISBN 978-953-51-0889-4
    149 pages, December, 2012
    Downloads: 633
    A water supply system is an interconnected collection of sources, pipes, and hydraulic control elements delivering consumers prescribed water quantities at desired pressures and water qualities. This book incorporates selected topics on theory, revis ...
  • Clean Energy for Better Environment
    Clean Energy for Better Environment
    Editor Cumhur Aydinalp
    ISBN 978-953-51-0822-1
    85 pages, October, 2012
    Downloads: 1118
    The prospect of producing clean, sustainable power from renewable energy sources is becoming a very important subject, stimulated by recent technological developments that have improved the cost-effectiveness of many renewables and by the increasing ...