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Keeping up with current EPA regulations for drinking water may be a requirement for engineers, water supply and treatment personnel, and public health officials, but few have the time or the wherewithal to wade through the more than 10,000 pages of technical and legal jargon these regulations include. In this Second Edition of this popular guide, John De Zuane provides clear, concise explanations of the latest regulations and current issues in water quality, from the original source to delivery to the consumer. Well-organized and lucidly written, Handbook of Drinking Water Quality 2/e provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the many challenges water management professionals face today, including:

• Current EPA regulations, with comparisons to World Health Organization and European Economic Community standards.
• Updated and expanded information on contaminants including lead, copper, radon, coliform, crytosporidium, and trihalomethanes.
• Guidelines for writing new standards or evaluating existing standards for drinking water quality.

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An Excellent Technical Source
If you are a public water supply manager for a municipality; the owner or operator of a water testing facility; a college professor of science; field researcher with undergrad or advanced degrees in biology, chemistry, environmental science, ecology, hydrology or other related field - and wish to dive to deeper depths in your professional water research - then I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

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This econometric study covers the world outlook for commercial mechanical refrigerated drinking water coolers across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-à-vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. This study does not report actual sales data (which are simply unavailable, in a comparable or consistent manner in virtually all of the 230 countries of the world). This study gives, however, my estimates for the worldwide latent demand, or the P.I.E., for commercial mechanical refrigerated drinking water coolers. It also shows how the P.I.E. is divided across the world's regional and national markets. For each country, I also show my estimates of how the P.I.E. grows over time (positive or negative growth). In order to make these estimates, a multi-stage methodology was employed that is often taught in courses on international strategic planning at graduate schools of business. ... Read more

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Inadequate drinking water and sanitation are amongst the world's major causes of preventable morbidity and mortality. This book provides a state-of-the-art review on approaches and methods used in assessing the microbial safety of drinking water. It supports the rapidly emerging trend towards preventive management and a broader, system-wide outlook. It supports a framework for water safety which extends from resource to consumer and is based on rigorous risk assessment and risk management. The book offers guidance on the selection and use of available indicators alongside operational monitoring to meet specific information needs. It looks at potential applications of "new" technologies and emerging methods.

The bookincludes chapters by eminent authorities/recognised experts dealing with aspects of: parameters for assessing water quality; assessment of risk; catchment characterisation and source water quality; treatment efficiency; monitoring water quality in storage and distribution; surveillance and investigation of contamination events and waterborne outbreaks; and analytical methods. ... Read more

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Regulating Drinking Water Quality examines the issue of safe drinking water from both scientific and public health policy points of view. Twenty-seven chapters provide a forum in which EPA and non-EPA scientists discuss the challenges of implementing the 1986 Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) amendments.General areas covered include an update on regulating lead in drinking water, radon in drinking water, regulating for microbes and disinfection by-products, exposure assessment and drinking water contamination, risk assessment and drinking water contamination, and consumer protection from drinking water point of use systems. Drinking water professionals, environmental and engineering professionals, regulatory personnel, and legislators should consider this important new book a "must have" acquisition for their libraries.FEATURES: ... Read more

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Originally published in 1914.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a "borderless world", cities become a more important criteria in prioritizing markets, as opposed to regions, continents, or countries. This report covers the top 2000 cities in over 200 countries. It does so by reporting the estimated market size (in terms of latent demand) for each major city of the world. It then ranks these cities and reports them in terms of their size as a percent of the country where they are located, their geographic region (e.g. Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Latin America), and the total world market.

In performing various economic analyses for its clients, I have been occasionally asked to investigate the market potential for various products and services across cities. The purpose of the studies is to understand the density of demand within a country and the extent to which a city might be used as a point of distribution within its region. From an economic perspective, however, a city does not represent a population within rigid geographical boundaries. To an economist or strategic planner, a city represents an area of dominant influence over markets in adjacent areas. This influence varies from one industry to another, but also from one period of time to another.

In what follows, I summarize the economic potential for the world's major cities for "commercial mechanical refrigerated drinking water coolers" for the year 2009. The goal of this report is to report my findings on the real economic potential, or what an economist calls the latent demand, represented by a city when defined as an area of dominant influence. The reader needs to realize that latent demand may or may not represent real sales. ... Read more

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Agricultural pollution (with nitrates and pesticides) is one ofthe biggest threats to drinking water resources. At many placesregional and local water authorities, together with the water supplyindustry, are involved in preventive action aimed at farmingpractices. Three national case studies (Germany, The Netherlands, andthe United Kingdom) analyse these efforts within the context ofproblematical national agricultural policy and the need to implementEU directives on water quality. Additional case studies cover the roleof the European Union, while the same problem in a different settingis analysed for the United States. The central question of hownational and European governments can reinforce the control capacityof the actors at the regional and local level, is treated from thetheoretical perspective of the policy network approach. ... Read more

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Arsenic is a widely distributed, naturally occurring element in the Earth's crust and is present in trace amounts in all living organisms. Higher levels of arsenic tend to be found more frequently in ground water than in surface water. Because small water systems typically rely on wells for drinking water, while the largest systems typically rely on surface-water sources, arsenic tends to occur in higher levels more often in water used by small communities. In the United States, the average level measured in ground-water samples is less than or equal to 1 part per billion; however, higher levels are not uncommon. Compared to the rest of the United States, Western states have more water systems with levels exceeding 10 ppb, and levels exceed 50 ppb in some locations. Parts of the Midwest and New England also have some water systems with arsenic levels exceeding 10 ppb, but most systems have lower levels. EPA projects that 5.5 per cent of water systems, serving 11 million people, are likely to exceed the 10 ppb level. Sources of arsenic in water include natural sources, and releases from its use as a wood preservative, in semi-conductors and paints, and from agriculture and mining.A question of ongoing scientific debate concerned whether significant adverse health effects occur from ingesting arsenic at very low levels. This book reviews EPA efforts to develop a new arsenic rule and summarises key provisions and subsequent events. Included are different ways of actually removing the arsenic and maintaining the healthy level that is required by the EPA. ... Read more

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This compilation covers all aspects of biodegradable organic matter in drinking water by addressing the improvements madeto water treatment and quality during the last 20 years.They have synthesized this vast wealth of international research, with coverage of: the fractionation and characterization of natural organic matter, the development of new methods for measuring BOM in water, the understanding of various factors affecting the behavior of organic matter in water treatment processes and the bacterial dynamics in biological filters and distribution systems. This book is a must for researchers and a valuable reference and guidance tool for all water producers. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Little research expenditure has gone towards the investigation of processes responsible for the corrosion of concrete drinking water infrastructure. One important mode of attack on concrete involves access of corrosive water to underlying reinforcing steel through cracks. Under some circumstances it is known that cracks in the concrete surface can repair themselves through reactions with constituents in the water. This phenomenon has been termed "autogenous healing."The objective of this project was to examine the effects of bulk water chemistry on concrete corrosion and autogenous repair of concrete.This project identified that autogenous healing can be controlled by water chemistry, and it can be an effective method of sealing small cracks that initiate in concrete before they develop into larger cracks that can cause failure. When high levels of magnesium and silicon are present this seal can develop high strength. Carbonation of internal surfaces was not detected when cracks were sealed via autogenous healing. In some cases, water permeability and chloride diffusion are impeded by autogenous healing regardless of strength attained. ... Read more