This is an academic textbook for engineers, environmentalists, builders and anyone looking for the latest scientific research and results on Water Reuse.
The authors have been around for a while, dealing specifically in the engineering, design and development of water reclamation systems for years, and they know what works, what scares people and what could be done to potentially better what is already done, developing an integrated approach to managing our planets precious water resources.
This book is on the cutting edge of applications, current issues, developments in environmental protection criteria, public health, risk management, advanced treatment technologies, practices, new developments, multiple barrier approach concepts with special emphasis on process reliability and considerations on public participation, planning, satellite and decentralized water reuse facilities that make the most of our potential resources.
This scientific text takes the reader through a general introduction to health and environmental concerns in water reuse, to technologies and different systems involved in reclamation, applications of reuse and the actual implementation of water reuse strategies.
This 1570-page hardcover, has over 500 detailed illustrations and photographs, covers the latest issues and trends of water reuse, technology and applications; written by a crew of experts in the field.
Contributing authors include Takashi Asano, Fanklin L. Burton, Harold, L. Leverenz, Ryujiro Tsuchihashi, George Tchobanoglous and Metcalf & Eddy Inc., published by McGraw-Hill Professional in January of 2007, measuring 9.2 x 7.9 x 2.3and shipping at 5.5 pounds.
Teams, Students, engineers, scientists, the technology they use, the issues that confront every major aspect of water reuse from public health protection, water quality, advanced technology, regulations and implementation challenges; this is a hallmark text that sets the road for the next thirty years in how our Cartesian society will use greywater and blackwater.
Natural Systems for Waste Management and Treatment is a hands-on manual for those directly involved in the operating, upgrading, building, designing and planning of our traditional blackwater system into an ecologically correct, natural alternative that meets new standards for a new generation looking for natural systems that solve waste management and treatment issues locally, ethically.
The biological filter solutions that have always been frowned upon by engineers and the scientifically oriented are now proven and practical, with tables and charts that prove exactly what will work and what wont work, this is an academic book for professionals that have been working in this area long enough to know better than to believe in a bunch of tree-hugging hippies.
However strangely it may seem, after decades of protests and greenpeace action, those same tree-huggers have finally managed to get their argument into this area?!?!
Here is, a book that was written by a group of professionals who have been acting in scientific circles for a good part of some thirty years, looking at waste water effluent from a differentpoint of view and studying it as a more self-reliant and cost-effective approach to purely mechanical and chemical filtration through trial, error and case studies that finally do make the difference financially.
Performance data, projects that work and reliable solutions to waste management and effluent treatment that use a natural systems approach looking at the ecology of the whole system using microbiology, plants and animals to do and even better job than that done by our machines, while repairing the ecosystem instead of sacrificing it.
Sludge treatment and management; planning, site selection, wetlands, land treatment systems, feasibility assessment, aquatic treatment systems, wastewater stabilization ponds and many more reliable alternatives to our blackwater issues.
This 433-page paperback, written by Sherwood C. Reed, Ronald W. Cirtes and E. Joe Middlebrooks, first published by McGraw-Hill Professional in August of 1998, measures 8.9 x 6 x 1 and ships at 1.4 pounds.
The market is beginning to demand ecologically correct alternatives through Natural Systems for Waste Management and Treatment that a seasoned engineer will not only understand clearly, but finally agree with for a more economically accessible future through self-reliance and sustainability that keeps bioremediation in first priority and at a less expensive cost that is academically speaking the very best technology currently available.
Small and decentralized wastewater management systems is an academic textbook developed for the ongoing trend in the field, as more and more professionals as well as average people, look toward a future that is far more sustainable and self-reliant.
As the traditional focus for wastewater management systems has been on bigger networks, it has been difficult, if not near impossible to find professional engineers that actually know about natural effluent management systems on the smaller decentralized scale.
The more younger students come looking for answers to these tree-hugger questions, the more books and courses like this one are going to appear.
Undergraduates are in for the long haul, they are the future and will determine what kinds of projects our county willor will not be building in the next decade, thus it is essential that they have access to what is proven to work and will also satisfy the current market demands.
Businesses, home owners, and government officials across the country would be smart to put the word sustainable into our mainstream, and its a fact we need to face while we still have time to figure it out, so that when the time comes to really put our knowledge into practice, we have the tools to do the job required!
Does a bigger wastewater and effluent management system really fit the future need? This book shows us that energy efficiency could mean more local solutions to what has more commonly been accepted as a question of urbanization.
On site treatment of wastewater is only part of the picture,more than that is taking into account the cross-disciplines that sustainable practices lead into, such as hydrogeology or biodiversity and make sure that what we build will be ecologically friendly, giving back equally what we take away through colonization and occupation that is ecologically correct.
This 1104-page hardcover, written by Ronald W. Crites and George Tchobanoglous, was published by McGraw-Hill in April of 1998, measuring 9.4 x 6.6 x 1.8 and ships at 3.5 pounds.
For a comprehensive approach to design, covering traditional disposal and treatment of waste effluent as well as the more trendy innovations in the eco-friendly, Small and Decentralized Wastewater Management Systems is a must read for undergraduate student engineers and the eco-interested for more self-reliant ways of taking care of our waste effluent that is environmentally beneficial as well as globally sustainable.
Water From The Sky focuses on how to become self-reliant with this most precious of life-giving resources, how it should be caught, saved, treated, used, reused, in the most economical and healthy ways, written by a man whose concern for self-reliance has become not only a passion, but a way of life.
When we think of going off the grid, one of the most important issues is rainwater harvesting, and earthships have this concept ingrained into them, as most of them find themselves in an area where rainfall is an almost sacred thing.
What about once the water has actually fallen to earth? Then what? How can we make sure that the water will stay clean, what about when we use the water, doesnt it have to go out into the sewage system and contaminate our natural rivers?
What about reusing that water through separating not so dirty rinse-water from the deadly sewage of our human waste? Couldnt that rinse water be used in flushing?
What should we do with flushed water? What do we do with excess rinse water? What is a greywater system, how can one be setup, and how does this retake the desert regions around the homes in New Mexico?
If we take questions like these seriously, we find that it is more than possible to turn water from the sky, into a useful tool for our continued survival in desert regions, and that waste-watercan be used to not only irrigate the surrounding property, but retake the desert, with our own tropical oasis, that builds a better quality of life for the future.
This 204-page paperback, written by the well known character/architect behind earthship construction, Michael Reynolds, was published by Solar Survival Press in June of 2005, measuring 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.6 and shipping at 1.2 pounds.
New Mexico is one of the places where water shortages can create serious challenges for the residents, and in the United States, there are already a lot of issues about the sacred water from the sky; this book covers treating water, reusing, using, storing, catching water, from a self-reliant standpoint in one of the driest regions of the world, helping others find solutions to their own situations, today.
Developing and Managing Community Water Supplies is a how-to book, based on field experience, from using short case studies to discussing all the issues related to the different stages of water supply development to the founding of a community program that will work, no matter where you are.
Involving all the members of a community in the different decisions that need to be taken around water provision, hygiene and education from the very start, Oxfam water fieldworkers who have been there and done this in the most rural communities on earth and have experience; they pass their knowledge on to you, for a more sustainable world community that cares about how we use water, right now.
What puts this book apart from a lot of other project books out there is that it was written by people who actually lived and went through it, holding dear to the UN principles of water conservation,in a world that has all but given up on the impoverished communities of our world.
Do you believe that every last man, woman and child has the right to development? Are you committed to fighting for a future where all people can meet their basic needs for food, shelter, health, skills, live without the fear of violence, be heard and live free of discrimination?
Oxfam is dedicated to this, all over the world, and this book is a direct result of fighting that battle, for a better tomorrow, one that we cannotjust hope for, but count on, because people like your are taking matters into their own hands, through knowledge, wisdom and most importantly, action!
An action that can be as simple as how our community is dealing with its water supplies or as deep as world concern!
This 184-page paperback, written by Jan Davis, Gerry Garvey and Michael Wood, was first published by Oxfam in December of 1993, measuring 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 and ships at 7.2 ounces.
If you are interested in Developing and Managing the Community Water Supplies where you live or somewhere dear to you, this book will show you how it has been done in the past, the potential problems you can face and more importantly, excellent strategies for overcoming those obstacles, reaching for success, starting now.
Water Storage is a do-it-yourself guide to rainwater harvesting in a sustainable fashion that makes use of all the possibilities within your grasp, at a low cost to the owner, with ecologically correct designs and building techniques that not only work, but look good once they are done.
Off-Grid water systems, disaster preparedness and fire protection using the principles of ecological design, make sustainable groundwater management, building a cistern, pond or water tank a little more than just tools to fulfill an immediate need, it brings us a perspective on life unlike any other.
A perspective, where, doing-it-ourselves, for ourselves, independently, we end up doing something so important for the collective community and the many creatures that live on this planet, that not only makes a difference; it builds a better tomorrow!
This is not just another engineers guide to plans and building materials, this is a book that was written for you, the real person, the one that makes the difference in the modern world of sustainability.
It doesnt matter if you are looking after your own utopic community or are just a single homesteader in the middle of the big city, what you want (what the whole world wants right now), is to just do something good for the world, while providing for the needs of our right now.
Water Storage is a book with all the answers about why our society and people in the green trends look to storing water, where those peak demands throughout the day are, how supply can vary throughout the year and what measures we can take to secure all the water we need in the most efficient and sustainable solution for your situation, looking to all possible resources available on-site where we live.
This is a 125-page paperback with 128 photos and 43 figures, written by Art Ludwig and published by Oasis Design in May of 2005, measuring 11 x 8.5, ships at 9.6 ounces.
From ferrocement jars to rain barrels, wellsprings or aquifer recharging, Water Storage addresses the best designs for your situation in the most ecologically correct way, to make sure that what you build in your water system will not only last for generations, it will make a difference in the present!
Water Storage will take advantage of what you have on site or locally available, reducing material miles and ecological footprints to achieve something both sustainable and self-reliant in a productive language that even the most average of home owners will easily understand or even zen with their first read.
The Singapore Water Reclamation Study, also known as the NEWater study, was performed in order to observe scientific results concerning a special multi-barrier approach to microbial and chemical contaminant removal in water.
The end result was a water product that is safe to replenish aquifers, surface water reservoirs and in some cases even go directly into the drinking water systems such as the system used in Denver, Colorado USA.
A planned Indirect Potable Reuse or Planned IPRwas the objective of this study and NEWater (recycled water from sewage treatment facilities) has historically been showing positive results in the US for more than 20 years, since as early as 1976.
The NEWater results from the Bedok Water Reclamation Plant where the study was performed, were satisfactory and above, receiving around 95% of its water from domestic wastewater sources and yet, still able to comply, and in some cases overachieve rigorous standards.
No specific pH standard was set but met at pH 5.9, TOC Removal was set at 97% while an actual 99% was achieved, Ammonia Removal was set at 90% while a 94% was actually achieved.
TDS Removal was set and achieved at 97% as was MF Filtrate Turbidity set and achieved at 0.1 NTU, meeting those two standards precisely.
What characterizes NEWater from other treatment systems is the use of advanced dual-membrane (microfiltration and reverse osmosis) and ultraviolet technologies that spend less energy to remove pollutants and chemicals with a cleaner, more efficient water product that is almost drinkable.
Drinking water parameters from the most current WHO and USEPA were used to analyze a total of 190 physical, chemical and microbial samples; measuring and relating their water quality.
By studying the effects of NEWater on one of the most sensitive species of mice as well as one of the most sensitive species of fish, over the long-term, no apparent dangers were reported, with tissue and health conditions remaining normal in both testspecies when compared to those exposed instead to raw reservoir water over the same period.
The study concluded that NEWater is considered safe for potable use based on two years of analysis, in compliance to USEPA and WHO standards and the Singapore Government should consider NEWater for Indirect Potable Reuse.
The Singapore Water Reclamation Study suggests that not only is the process safe, but blending NEWater with the Singapore reservoir water supply would help recover trace minerals eliminated in the reverse osmosis process thereby providing a better taste as well as improve public acceptance.
Watersaver Rain Barrels are 54-gallon units, made from top of the line durable black plastic a quarter of an inch thick and weighing only twenty pounds.
Watersaver Rain Barrel looks a lot like a wine keg from medieval times with a cool look that gives your garden that almost buccaneer look to it.
The screen fits inside the barrel perfectly and the lid wont come off without you knowing how, making it ruggrat and critter safe.
There is an overflow on the back of this rain barrel that comes with a six foot hose (easily replaceable for more reach) for redirecting your overflow automatically to planters or extra barrels as you see fit.
Two spigot outlets allow you to control the pressure of your water somewhat and the Watersaver Rain Barrel comes with one threaded brass spigot that fits the common garden hose for easy use.
Save money on your water bill, do good for the environment by recycling the most precious source of life on our planet; water.
Watersaver Rain Barrel will not only cut down on your carbon footprint indirectly, it will also look good, fitting snuggly into the corner of your lawn, garden or against the wall, wherever the downspout is.
Watersaver Rain Barrel has a five-year guarantee, but if kept well, should be able to hold up throughout your lifetime, never giving in to the elements of nature, holding 54 gallons of water that will only leave the barrel when you decide.
Deluxe English Barrels hold 77 gallons of water and is made from an attractive green plastic with an old fashioned English whiskey barrel design showing professionalism in its manufacturing.
Deluxe English Barrel comes with a four-foot hose, a drain valve for multiple rain barrel link ups, a debris screen and a tight childproof lid.
This durable green plastic will hold up to the elements, decade after decade, and keep on maintaining your lawn sustainable while water bills skyrocket, year after year; yours will be sustainable and partially off-the-grid.
By using a larger capacity rain barrel, you can keep a larger supply of water for a longer period, while still keeping your lawn green and lovely all year round, even in a drought.
The Deluxe English Barrel is a 77 gallon rain barrel that comes with everything you will need to redirect your downspout into a more sustainable lifestyle in lawn keeping and gardening.
Rain Catcher Water Barrels are 54 gallon capacity fresh water receptacles, designed to fit snuggly and compactly against the wall of your deck, patio or house, in a fine green that blends in well with your lawn or garden.
This water barrel is child-safe and comes with a snug filter and lid, as well as overflow tube and linking kit for additional barrels in your rainwater catchment system.
Involving all the members of a community in the different decisions that need to be taken around water provision, hygiene and education from the very start, Oxfam water fieldworkers who have been there and done this in the most rural communities on earth and have experience; they pass their knowledge on to you, for a more sustainable world community that cares about how we use water, right now.
