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Water Quality

Subsurface migration, fertilizer runoff from farms, storm water from streets, and other forms of diffuse pollution are now recognized as having serious environmental consequences. In more than 50 percent of estimated cases in which water quality goals are not achieved, diffuse pollution is cited as the main cause. This guide surveys the myriad problems and challenges presented by this form of pollution, and offers a wide range of feasible, cost-effective solutions for dealing with them.

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Surface Water Quality Modeling

Since the 1920's, scientists and engineers around the globe have been using mathematical models to simulate the transport and fate of pollutants in natural waters. Today, and in the foreseeable future, more of these applications are being generated in an effort to develop economical solutions to our water problems.

Water Quality: Diffuse Pollution

Provides all new material on urban, industrial, and highway pollution, as well as on management and restoration of streams, lakes, and watershed management techniques. * Includes revised chapters on agricultural diffuse pollution; control of urban, highway, and industrial diffuse pollution; and wetlands considerations. * All regulatory data is up to date, with new material provided on judicial law based on significant decisions made in recent years.

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Lake and Pond Management Guidebook

Water treatment, fish topics, algae, and more in this book for smaller pond ecosystems.

The Dynamic Great Lakes

U. S. Water News Co -Published by The Freshwater Society 5-6 2002

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The Sierra Club Guide to Safe Drinking Water

Books on healthy, organic eating proliferate, but the topic of water isn't as popular. You can always buy bottled, but Lewis takes on the issue in all its complexity. He describes the myriad contaminants and lists city violations.

Don't Drink the Water: The Essential Guide to Our Contaminated Drinking Water and What You Can Do About It

The essential guide to our contaminated drinking water and what you can do about it.

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Water Quality & Treatment Handbook

From Book News, Inc. Revised and updated (2nd ed. was 1971) to reflect recent developments in the field, this reference addresses water quality issues for both municipal and industrial water supply, reports on the source of contaminants and other problems, and describes the treatment methods of choice.

The Home Water Supply

The Home Water Supply: How to Find, Filter, Store and Conserve It
by Stu Campbell

Knowledgeable discussion of home water systems, potential water problems, and practical, money-saving solutions.

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Create an Oasis With Greywater

Create an Oasis With Greywater: Your Complete Guide to Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systems by Art Ludwig

Cottage Water Systems

Cottage Water Systems: An Out-Of-The City Guide to Pumps, Plumbing, Water Purification, and Privies by Max Burns

From the Publisher The subtitle for this attractive paperback is "An Out-of- the-City Guide to Pumps, Plumbing, Water Purification, and Privies," and it deftly fulfils its promise. Mr. Burns uses humor interspersed with excellent illustrations to convey technical information in layman's terms.

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For those engineers who want more, check these out:
Colonization of Biologically Active Filter Media With Pathogens by Mark Burr (Editor)
Chemical Water and Wastewater Treatment.

Water and Wastewater Treatment: A Guide for the Nonengineering Professionals
by Joanne E. Drinan

This volume is the only resource that describes and explains in simple, non-mathematical terms the unit processes used to treat both drinking water and wastewater. Designed to meet the information needs of professionals without an engineering background.

Pharmaceutical Water : System Design, Operation, and Validation
by William V. Collentro

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