Overview
- Fills knowledge gaps about water treatment technologies and their costs, risk assessment methods, adverse health effects of chemical contamination, and management protocols
- Suggests improvements for the management of risks and financial viability of the treatment infrastructure, for a better and more healthy drinking water supply for all
- Offers a comparative classification of water treatment technologies and what contaminants they can remove
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Water (SPWA)
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This book discusses different drinking water treatment technologies and what contaminants each treatment method can remove, and at what costs. The production of drinking water requires adequate management. This book attempts to fill the existing knowlegde gap about (a) water treatment technologies and their costs, (b) risk assessment methods, (c) adverse health effects of chemical contaminants, (d) management protocols, and varying regulatory practices in different jurisdictions, and what successes are possible even with small financial outlays. Addressing water consulting engineers, politicians, water managers, ecosystem and environmental activists, and water policy researchers, and being clearly structured through a division in four parts, this book considers theoretical aspects, technologies, chemical contaminants and their possible elimination, and illustrates all aspects in selected international case studies.
Source-water protection, water treatment technology, and the water distribution network are critically reviewed and discussed. The book suggests improvements for the management of risks and financial viability of the treatment infrastructure, as well as ways toward an optimal management of the distribution network through the risk-based management of all infrastructure assets.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Waterborne Diseases and Watershed Protection
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Drinking Water Treatment Technology and Pricing
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Incorporating Risk in Decision-Making
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A European Case Study
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mohammed Dore, who did his doctorate at the University of Oxford, UK, came to Brock University in 1981. He has received a number of research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Network Centre of Excellence in Canada, and the US National Science Foundation. With external funding he established his Climate Change Laboratory in 1996. The twin emphasis of his Lab has been training students to carry out high level policy oriented research that not only led to a number of theses but also to reports for various stakeholders who could implement the policy prescriptions. His research on climate change led him to drinking water policy issues. He has also worked as a consultant to both industry and government agencies; for example he has been hired as a contract consultant by Bell Canada; Environment Canada; Natural Resources Canada; The Municipality of Niagara; and the Capital Region District of Greater Victoria.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Drinking Water Management and Conservation
Book Subtitle: Optimal Decision-Making
Authors: Mohammed H. Dore
Series Title: Springer Water
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11032-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-11031-8Published: 10 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35708-9Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-11032-5Published: 22 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2364-6934
Series E-ISSN: 2364-8198
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 73 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental Economics, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Water and Health