Publications
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Bioanalytical Tools in Water Quality Assessment
(2021)
The first edition of Bioanalytical Tools in Water Quality Assessment was released in 2012. The field has exploded since and the second edition updates and reviews the application of bioanalytical tools for water quality ...
Water-Wise Cities and Sustainable Water Systems
(2021)
Building water-wise cities is a pressing need nowadays in both developed and developing countries. This is mainly due to the limitation of the available water resources and aging infrastructure to meet the needs of adapting ...
Treatment and Valorisation of Saline Wastewater
(2021)
This book covers the principles and practices of processes and technologies applied for the treatment of saline wastewater with discharge and reuse purpose, and those applied for its valorisation. Saline wastewater was ...
Metrology in Urban Drainage and Stormwater Management
(2021)
This book presents the advancements made in applied metrology in the field of Urban Drainage and Storm water Management over the past two decades in scientific research as well as in practical applications. Given the ...
Faecal Sludge Management Systems
(2014)
It is estimated that literally billions of residents in urban and peri-urban areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America are served by onsite sanitation systems (e.g. various types of latrines and septic tanks). Until recently, ...
Resource Recovery from Water
(2022)
Throughout history, the first and foremost role of urban water management has been the protection of human health and the local aquatic environment. To this end, the practice of (waste-)water treatment has maintained a ...
Pathways to Water Sector Decarbonization, Carbon Capture and Utilization
(2022)
The water sector is in the middle of a paradigm shift from focusing on treatment and meeting discharge permit limits to integrated operation that also enables a circular water economy via water reuse, resource recovery, ...
Photocatalytic Water and Wastewater Treatment
(2022)
This book aims to provide an overview of how photocatalysis can be employed in water and wastewater treatment. Each chapter will attend to a different area of interest, starting with an introduction on the fundamentals of ...
Pathways to Water Sector Decarbonization, Carbon Capture and Utilization
(2022)
The water sector is in the middle of a paradigm shift from focusing on treatment and meeting discharge permit limits to integrated operation that also enables a circular water economy via water reuse, resource recovery, ...
Photocatalytic Water and Wastewater Treatment
(2022)
This book aims to provide an overview of how photocatalysis can be employed in water and wastewater treatment. Each chapter will attend to a different area of interest, starting with an introduction on the fundamentals of ...
Resource Recovery from Water
(2022)
Throughout history, the first and foremost role of urban water management has been the protection of human health and the local aquatic environment. To this end, the practice of (waste-)water treatment has maintained a ...
Resilience of Water Supply in Practice
(2021)
Water Resilience in Practice is co-edited by two experienced water sector professionals and reviews resilience in water supply service delivery in the form of a series of case studies from different economic contexts – ...
Wealth Creation without Pollution
(2017)
The development of eco-industrial parks and associated ‘ecological industry’ concepts offer progressive integrated approaches to resolve pollution problems from effluents and wastes of all kinds. Most industry however is ...
Tuning Biological Nutrient Removal Plants
(2013)
Tuning Biological Nutrient Removal Plants increases interest in tuning to enhance both performance and capacity, to provide insight into typical plant operating characteristics, and to stimulate operators' interest in ...
Applications of Activated Sludge Models
(2015)
In 1982 the International Association on Water Pollution Research and Control (IAWPRC), as it was then called, established a Task Group on Mathematical Modelling for Design and Operation of Activated Sludge Processes. The ...
Environmental Technologies to Treat Rare Earth Element Pollution
(2022)
Rare earth elements (REE) have applications in various modern technologies, e.g., semiconductors, mobile phones, magnets. They are categorized as critical raw materials due to their strategic importance in economies and ...
Reservoir Eutrophication
(2014)
The overall objective of Reservoir Eutrophication: Preventive Management is to present the environmental and anthropogenic factors associated with the process of eutrophication and algal blooms in the Rio Verde reservoir ...
Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain
(2022)
The value chain (VC) system is a key way to address important sanitation technological and institutional gaps in production and service delivery and could constitute a natural platform for development actions and also serve ...
Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture
(2022)
The book brings together a range of leading scholars and practitioners to compile an international account of water allocation policies supporting a transition to sustainable water use in regions where agriculture is the ...
Embracing Analytics in the Drinking Water Industry
(2022)
Analytics can support numerous aspects of water industry planning, management, and operations. Given this wide range of touchpoints and applications, it is becoming increasingly imperative that the championship and capability ...
Quantification and Modelling of Fugitive Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Urban Water Systems
(2022)
With increased commitment from the international community to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from all sectors in accordance with the Paris Agreement, the water sector has never felt the pressure it is now under to ...
Jar Tests for Water Treatment Optimization
(2022)
The book is intended as a handbook providing detailed instructions for the correct conducting of jar tests, which are needed for the optimisation of the coagulation/flocculation process. It contains the essential theoretical ...
Water interactions
(2022)
During the last two decades, the interrelationship between water and energy has become recognized. Likewise, the couplings to food and agriculture are getting increasingly obvious and alarming. In the last year, a record ...
Réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre des services d'eau et d'assainissement
(2022)
The scientific evidence contained in the three volumes of the 6th IPCC report (AR6), published between August 2021 and April 2022, are another reminder of the urgent need to respect the 2015 Paris Agreement. 195 countries ...
Reducing the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Water and Sanitation Services
(2022)
The scientific evidence contained in the three volumes of the 6th IPCC report (AR6), published between August 2021 and April 2022, are another reminder of the urgent need to respect the 2015 Paris Agreement. 195 countries ...
Groundwater Assessment and Management for sustainable water-supply and coordinated subsurface drainage:
(2022)
Groundwater beneath cities is important. Water utilities and private abstractors use is it as a secure source of water-supply and municipal authorities have to cope with it when planning sanitation and using underground ...
Integrated Wastewater Management for Health and Valorization
(2022)
"Adequate wastewater treatment in low to medium income cities worldwide has largely been a failure despite decades of funding. The still dominant end-of-pipe paradigm of treatment for surface water discharge, focusing ...
A Strategic Digital Transformation for the Water Industry
(2022)
This book is a compilation of the knowledge shared and generated so far in the IWA Digital Water Programme. It is an insightful collection of white papers covering best practices, linking academic and industrial studies/insights ...
Landfill Leachate Management
(2024)
Landfill leachate is a complex mix of organics, inorganics and heavy metals produced from the conventional and engineering landfilling practices. The adverse effects of landfill leachate on the human and environmental ...
Technological Solutions for Water Sustainability: Challenges and Prospects
(2023)
The book provides an overview of technical sustainable water management in the Global South, mainly in India. The book is structured in five sections: (1) current state and challenges, (2) new age materials in (waste) water ...
Algal Systems for Resource Recovery from Waste and Wastewater
(2023)
This book provides comprehensive insights on existing technologies and up-to-date advances in the field of waste management and treatment using algal based technologies via different approaches and systems. Coverage ...
Nanobiohybrids for Advanced Wastewater Treatment and Energy Recovery
(2023)
In the quest for sustainable solutions, a groundbreaking innovation emerges: Nanobiohybrids for Advanced Wastewater Treatment and Energy Recovery. This compelling title delves into the forefront of integrated environmental ...
Clean Technologies Toward a Sustainable Future
(2023)
Increasing global population growth and the continued exploitation of land, water and other natural resources is causing the release of harmful gases and toxic compounds into the environment. To combat this pollution and ...
Experimental Methods for Membrane Applications in Desalination and Water Treatment
(2024)
Water quality is a critical issue for the water industry today, and membrane filtration a highly effective treatment used to provide clean water for the global population. Experimental processes are being developed for ...
Asset Management of Urban Drainage Systems
(2024)
Asset management issues are and will always be key concerns for many stakeholders in the water sector. Despite this, there is still a lack of awareness and clear guidance on the topic. There has been some focus on the ...
Detection and Treatment of Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater
(2024)
Detection and Treatment of Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater addresses the critical and pressing need for effective strategies to detect and treat emerging contaminants, thereby mitigating risks associated with their ...
Anaerobic Treatment of Domestic Wastewater
(2024)
The main challenge in wastewater treatment is changing the perception of wastewater as a waste product to be treated or disposed of, and instead seeing it as a source of energy and other valuable byproducts. This approach ...
Resource Recovery from Industrial Wastewater through Microbial Electrochemical Technologies
(2024)
There is currently a critical gap in knowledge regarding the application of microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) in industrial wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Resource Recovery from Industrial Wastewater ...
A-B processes
(2019)
The principle of the conventional activated sludge (CAS) for municipal wastewater treatment is primarily based on biological oxidation by which organic matters are converted to biomass and carbon dioxide. After more than ...
Pushing the Paradigm of Global Water Security
(2024)
This book brings together early career researchers, non-governmental organisations and industry practitioners, indigenous and local communities, and government agency workers to interrogate the concept of water security. ...
Reducing Water Use and Carbon Footprint
(2026)
Reducing Water Use and Carbon Footprint: Working toward a circular economy tackles some of today's most pressing environmental, economic, and social challenges. Aligned with the principles of the Circular Economy, the 2030 ...
Computational Techniques for Modelling and Simulating Adsorption Processes for (Waste)Water Treatment
(2026)
As global water resources face growing threats from pollution and overuse, sustainable treatment solutions are urgently needed. Among these, adsorption stands out as an effective and versatile method for removing a broad ...