Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of WaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Quality of Our Nation's Water
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of WaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Quality of Our Nation's Water
Author: The Quality of Our Nation's Water
Author: Handbook of Water Purity and Quality
Author: Satinder AhujaPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 9780080921129
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This work provides those involved in water purification research and administration with a comprehensive resource of methods for analyzing water to assure its safety from contaminants, both natural and human caused. The book first provides an overview of major water-related issues in developing and developed countries, followed by a review of issues of sampling for water analysis, regulatory considerations and forensics in water quality and purity investigations. The subsequent chapters cover microbial as well chemical contaminations from inorganic compounds, radionuclides, volatile and semi-volatile compounds, disinfectants, herbicides, and pharmaceuticals, including endocrine disruptors, as well as potential terrorist-related contamination. The last chapter describes the Grainger prize-winning filter that can remove arsenic from water sources and sufficiently protect the health of a large number of people. - Covers the scope of water contamination problems on a worldwide scale - Provides a rich source of methods for analyzing water to assure its safety from natural and deliberate contaminants - Describes the filter that won the $1 million Grainger prize and thereby highlighting an important approach to remediation
The Quality of Our Nation's Waters
Author: John S. ZogorskiPublisher: Geological Survey (USGS)
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Quality of Drinking Water--1980
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
The Quality of Our Nation's Waters- - -water Quality in Principal Aquifers of the United States, 1991--2010
Author: Leslie A. DesimonePublisher: Geological Survey (USGS)
ISBN: 9781411337589
Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Quality of Our Nation's Water
Author: Water Quality for Ecosystem and Human Health
Author: Geneviève M. CarrPublisher: UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN: 9789295039513
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This document is intended to provide an overview of the major components of surface and ground water quality and how these relate to ecosystem and human health. Local, regional and global assessments of water quality monitoring data are used to illustrate key features of aquatic environments, and to demonstrate how human activities on the landscape can influence water quality in both positive and negative ways. Clear and concise background knowledge on water quality can serve to support other water assessments.
Clean Coastal Waters
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309069483
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Environmental problems in coastal ecosystems can sometimes be attributed to excess nutrients flowing from upstream watersheds into estuarine settings. This nutrient over-enrichment can result in toxic algal blooms, shellfish poisoning, coral reef destruction, and other harmful outcomes. All U.S. coasts show signs of nutrient over-enrichment, and scientists predict worsening problems in the years ahead. Clean Coastal Waters explains technical aspects of nutrient over-enrichment and proposes both immediate local action by coastal managers and a longer-term national strategy incorporating policy design, classification of affected sites, law and regulation, coordination, and communication. Highlighting the Gulf of Mexico's "Dead Zone," the Pfiesteria outbreak in a tributary of Chesapeake Bay, and other cases, the book explains how nutrients work in the environment, why nitrogen is important, how enrichment turns into over-enrichment, and why some environments are especially susceptible. Economic as well as ecological impacts are examined. In addressing abatement strategies, the committee discusses the importance of monitoring sites, developing useful models of over-enrichment, and setting water quality goals. The book also reviews voluntary programs, mandatory controls, tax incentives, and other policy options for reducing the flow of nutrients from agricultural operations and other sources.