Description
Book Synopsis
This book focuses on threats, especially contaminants, to drinking water and the supply system, especially in municipalities but also in industrial and even residential settings. The safety, security, and suitability landscape can be described as dynamic and complex stemming from necessity and hence culpability due to the emerging threats and risks, vis-a-vis globalization resulting in new forms of contaminants being used due to new technologies. The book provides knowledge and guidance for engineers, scientists, designers, researchers, and students who are involved in water, sustainability, and study of security issues. This book starts out with basics of water usage, current statistics, and an overview ofwater resources. The book then introduces different scenarios of safety and security and areas that researchers need to focus. Following that, the book presents different types of contaminants – inadvertent, intentional, or incidental. The next section presents different methodologies of contamination sensing/detection and remediation strategies as per guidance and standards set globally. The book then concludes with selected chapters on water management, including critical infrastructure that is critical to maintaining safe water supplies to cities and municipalities. Each chapter includes descriptive information for professionals in their respective fields. The breadth of chapters offers insights into how science (physical, natural, and social) and technology can support new developments to manage the complexity resident within the evolving threat and risk landscape.
Table of Contents1. Water – Safety, Security and Sustainability.- 2. Globalization and Water.- 3. New thoughts on Security Studies – Traditional and non-traditional Security concepts.- 4. Overview of Threats and Risks – Critical infrastructure.- 5. Water Management – Futuristic Scenarios.- 6. Nanomaterials And Their Role In Removing Contaminants From Wastewater - A Critical Review.- 7. Polymeric Nanocomposite Membranes For Water Filtration.- 8. Electrospun Nanomaterials: Applications In Water Remediation.- 9. Water Treatment By Green Coagulants - Nature At Rescue.- 10. Application Of System Approach And System Standards In Water Safety Plans Development And Implementation.
