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This book presents the basic principles for evaluating water quality and treatment plant performance in a clear, innovative and didactic way, using a combined approach that involves the interpretation of monitoring data associated with (i) the basic processes that take place in water bodies and in water and wastewater treatment plants and (ii) data management and statistical calculations to allow a deep interpretation of the data. This book is problem-oriented and works from practice to theory, covering most of the information you will need, such as (a) obtaining flow data and working with the concept of loading, (b) organizing sampling programmes and measurements, (c) connecting laboratory analysis to data management, (e) using numerical and graphical methods for describing monitoring data (descriptive statistics), (f) understanding and reporting removal efficiencies, (g) recognizing symmetry and asymmetry in monitoring data (normal and log-normal distributions), (h) evaluating compliance with targets and regulatory standards for effluents and water bodies, (i) making comparisons with the monitoring data (tests of hypothesis), (j) understanding the relationship between monitoring variables (correlation and regression analysis), (k) making water and mass balances, (l) understanding the different loading rates applied to treatment units, (m) learning the principles of reaction kinetics and reactor hydraulics and (n) performing calibration and verification of models. The major concepts are illustrated by 92 fully worked-out examples, which are supported by 75 freely-downloadable Excel spreadsheets. Each chapter concludes with a checklist for your report. If you are a student, researcher or practitioner planning to use or already using treatment plant and water quality monitoring data, then this book is for you!

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This book is a breath of fresh air in our field; the authors set the tone from the very first paragraph, their approach is surprisingly direct and transparent, their knowledge is genuinely shared, the book is open access, and the attached tools are accessible and changeable, giving the reader the feeling of 'what you see is what you get'. The usefulness of this book to all stakeholders in the field is undoubted; it will be used by its intended audience and will soon become a compulsory, 'must have', item in the collection of water scientists and professionals. I am delighted that the authors have made such a tremendous effort to create this book; I am looking forward to using it myself and to introducing it to a curriculum of programs I lead, and my students will use it too. Prof. Dr. Damir Brdjanovic Professor of Sanitary Engineering IHE Delft Institute for Water Education and Delft University of Technology The Netherlands

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