Overview

Sustainable Water is a practical and accessible book for built environment professionals who play vital roles in creating and maintaining water services. It outlines a framework of fundamental principles, methodologies and approaches needed to deliver high quality, economical and sustainable infrastructure across the globe by approaching it from the time-limited, output-driven perspective of practical infrastructure engineers and practitioners. The applied examples from existent civil engineering projects identify the key sustainability issues and challenges for the water sector, their common principles and how these can be applied in practice. As an invaluable resource Sustainable Water: Identifies the sector priorities for change to sustainability Uses the latest best practice Describes opportunities and methodologies with leading edge examples Discusses the barriers and potential ways to innovate Identifies opportunities and constraints Advises on the right questions to ask at each stage of project delivery Sustainable Water identifies and applies the critical changes needed to provide more sustainable solutions, and to embed these into a tradition of excellent by delivering sufficient water through a good service, of the right quality and at an affordable cost, as straightforwardly as possible.

Full Product Details

Author:   Charles Ainger ,  Richard A. Fenner
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   ICE Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9780727757739

ISBN 10:   0727757733
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   02 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction - and how to use the book 2. The sustainability context and challenge for water and wastewater examples 3. Integrated water (catchment) management examples 4. Water Resources examples - Hybrid example of new build reservoir in SE England (based on Cow Green/Abingdon); 5. Water treatment examples 6. Water Distribution examples 7. Wastewater Collection (and urban drainage) examples 8. Wastewater and Sludge Treatment and discharge examples - Example of recycling into water supply (Hanningfield Reservoir) 9. Industrial and Energy water and wastewater examples 10. Agricultural water use and pollution examples 11. Flood risk management examples - Windsor Maidenhead Flood Alleviation Channel: sustainable design or failure 12. Procurement & contracts 13. Detailed design, and Construction 14. Disposal, replacement 15. Changing engineering practice - innovating to sustainability

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