Description
Book SynopsisSustainable 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
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
