Municipal Water And Wastewater Treatment

The book provides an overview of the engineering approaches towardsensuring water quality, with an emphasis on fundamental principles.It presents water quality objectives and the chemical, physical,and biological processes necessary for designing and managingdrinking water and waste water treatment plants. Theory andconceptual designs of systems for treating municipal waste waterand drinking water are discussed. The basic principles of commontreatment processes are also discussed. Table of Contents Water as a resource: some related issues Municipal wastewater generation, conveyance and disposal Water treatment processes Wastewater treatment: physical and chemical processes Wastewater treatment: biological methods Wastewater reuse Sludge and Septage: Treatment and Disposal Wastewater disposal into natural water bodies Wastewater disposal on land-land application Selection, planning and implementation guidelines for water and wastewater treatment systems Model answers to Learning activities Distance learning in Environmental Engineering