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This expanded seventh edition provides the latest tools and techniques to meet the engineering challenges of dwindling natural resources, with expanded coverage of waste and sludge disposal, energy and sustainability, and new chapters on intakes, chemical storage, handling, and sampling

Table of Contents

1. The Demand for Public Water2. Water Supply Regulation, Protection, Organization and Financing3. Hydrology and Surface Supplies4. Groundwater Supplies5. Dams and Reservoirs6. Intakes7. Chemistry, microbiology and biology of water8. Storage, clarification and chemical treatment9. Water filtration 10. Specialized and advanced water treatment processes11. Disinfection of Water12. Chemical storage, dosing and control13. Energy use, sustainability and waste treatment14. Hydraulics15. System design and analysis 16. Distribution practice17. Pipeline design and construction18. Valves and meters19. Pumping; electrical plant; control and instrumentation 20. Treated water storage

About the Author

Civil engineer specialising in water supply planning and distribution system management; responsibilities include research in the UK and overseas as well as project execution in Europe, Asia, Middle East and North and South America. Civil engineer for design of large and small works such as dams, spillways, intakes, pipelines, tunnels, pumping stations, conventional water treatment, reverse osmosis and water storage in UK, South and Central America, Middle East and Far East. Chemical engineer specialising in potable water treatment, including both conventional and advanced treatment processes, with experience in UK, North and Southern Africa and Far East. Chemical engineer with extensive specialist knowledge of water treatment techniques; responsible for all aspects of water treatment process design for projects in UK, Europe, Africa, Asian sub-continent, Middle East, Far East, and Australia.