Lake Victoria Monitored from Space

This book employs a suite of remotely sensed products and advanced technologies to provide the first comprehensive space-based sensing of Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake that supports a livelihood of more than 42 million people, modulates regional climate, but faces myriads of challenges. Proper understanding of the lake and changes in its physical dynamics (e.g., wa…

Wastewater Technologies and Environmental Treatment

This proceedings book provides the latest developments on water as a unique resource that can meet the fundamental needs of human beings and ecosystems. Wastewater generated in industrial, commercial, residential and sensible places must take care as it may pollute the ground and surface water if not treated properly. Environmental pollution discharged from industrial, commercial, residential a…

Phnom Penh Water Story

This book analyses how a water utility from a developing country, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, that was totally dysfunctional, corruption-ridden and literally bankrupt in 1993, became one of the most successful water utilities of the developing world in only about 15 years. By 2010, some of the performance indicators of this public sector utility were even better than London, Paris or Los…

Water Resources of Chile

Chile is a privileged country in terms of water resources, with an average annual runoff of approximately 50,000 m3/person. However, water availability varies enormously in space, as less than 1,000 m3/person are available for more than 50% of the population. The temporal and spatial distribution of water resources is driven by processes highly variables across a country with different climates…

Investigation and Assessment Technology for Typical Groundwater-contaminated …

This book introduces readers to environmental background investigation, pollution source intensity evaluation and risk assessment approaches used at three main types of groundwater-contaminated sites: municipal domestic waste landfills, hazardous waste landfills and oil-contaminated sites. In addition, typical contaminated sites throughout China are examined to demonstrate how these approaches …

Water Resources Management of the People’s Republic of China

This book explores water resources management issues in China and possible solutions. It analyzes a wide range of general and specific topics, providing case studies and a balanced review of the past and present situation as well as future developments. The book begins with a general introduction and an overview of hydrology, water resources, and development issues in China. It then presents a…

Water Management and Water Governance

This book focusses on hydrological modeling, water management, and water governance. It covers the applications of remote sensing and GIS tools and techniques for land use and land cover classifications, estimation of precipitation, evaluation of morphological changes, and monitoring of soil moisture variability. Moreover, remote sensing and GIS techniques have been applied for crop mapping to …

The Worth of Water

There is no more fundamental substance to life on earth than water. Three quarter of the Earth’s surface is covered by either saltwater or freshwater, yet millions face a daily struggle to access enough water for survival. The effects of ongoing climate change have expanded the water crisis to areas previously considered water secure. This book addresses the role rainwater harvesting (rwh) ca…

Ethical Water Stewardship

This interdisciplinary book brings philosophers and non-philosophers to the table to address questions of water ethics, specifically in terms of how moral questions inform decision making around water security at local, national, and international scales. Water security, which pertains to the experience of assured access to clean water, is a broad concept that intersects human rights, politics…

Water Resilience

This book synthesizes current knowledge and understanding of management and governance in the context of water resilience; advances theory through synthesis of research and experiences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The book highlights the implications of theory and experience for innovation in practice and policy; and it explores frontiers and future research. The book further a…

Climate Impacts on Water Resources in India

This book chiefly focuses on environmental flow, water pollution and water quality. Several chapters also cover water treatment technologies and management. In today’s context, climate change and climate variability are important issues in the water sector, which is called upon to develop adaptation strategies to cope with their negative impacts. Human health depends upon the quality of water…

Reclaiming and Rewilding River Cities for Outdoor Recreation

The introduction of sports and recreational facilities into natural environments calls for reflection on their impact on fragile ecosystems. This book is unique in providing an interdisciplinary approach to the ecological restoration of urban and industrial degraded habitats and their use by nearby city-dwellers. For the first time ecologists, sociologists and anthropologists have worked togeth…

Enabling Adaptive Water Management to Face Drought Risk in a Changing Climate

This book explores the current challenges with regard to uncertainty and risk in water management, as well as the interlinkages between drought and water management. It focuses on the challenges for water management organisations, which are expected to adapt to such changes and implement adaptive water management. The book proposes a methodology for assessing organisations’ adaptive capaci…

Robust and Secured Digital Audio Watermarking

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-53911-5

Collation

xviii, 88p.:Ill

Series Title

SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology

Call Number

005.82 Pat r

Advances in Water Resources Management for Sustainable Use

This book presents the innovative ideas and technical expertise for the sustainable solution in the field of water resources. It covers various topics on sustainable water resources management under climate change where researchers and professionals have shared their experience, innovative ideas, issues, recent trends and future directions in field of water resources engineering, science and te…

The Underwater World for Digital Data Transmission

This book covers all small details about Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSN). Researchers can use this book as a prerequisite before starting any research on underwater networks or underwater applications. This book covers the introduction, challenges, different architectural models for UWSN, various attacks on UWSN, underwater applications, and networking layers. The target audience includes pro…

HIDROLIKA TERAPAN: Aliran Pada Saluran Terbuka dan Pipa

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

979-763-052-8

Collation

xii + 342 hlm.; 16x23 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

628.162 Kod h

Watermarking Techniques for Copyright Protection of Videos

The book provides copyright protection approaches for videos using watermarking. The various watermarking techniques using various transforms such as discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD) for videos are presented. The book also provides video watermarking approach using compressive sensing (CS) theory. The presented watermarking…

Groundwater Engineering

This textbook employs a technical and quantitative approach to explain subsurface hydrology and hydrogeology, and to offer a comprehensive overview of groundwater-related topics such as flow in porous media, aquifer characterization, contaminant description and transport, risk assessment, and groundwater remediation. It describes the characterization of subsurface flow of pristine and polluted …

Advances in Water Pollution Monitoring and Control

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences (HSFEA 2018), highlighting the latest developments in the field of science and technology aimed at improving health and safety in the workplace. The volume comprises content from leading scientists, engineers, and policy makers, discussing water pollution and advanced rem…

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESSES

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ISBN/ISSN

978-1-119-19243-5

Collation

xxiv, 354p.; ill.;25cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

660.62 Ant a

Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the detection and processing of signals in underwater acoustics. Background material on active and passive sonar systems, underwater acoustics, and statistical signal processing makes the book a self-contained and valuable resource for graduate students, researchers, and active practitioners alike. Signal detection topics span a range of common signa…

WATER

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ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

xiii, 701 p.; 26 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

631.7 Wat w

Fish and Shellfish Farming in Coastal Waters

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0-852-380-224

Collation

208 p. ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

639 Mil f

Treated Wastewater in Agriculture: USE AND IMPACTS ON THE SOIL ENVIRONMENT AN…

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4051-4862-7

Collation

xv, 446 p.; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

631.58 Tre t

GROUNDWATER ENGINEERING

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0-07-033489-7

Collation

xiii, 512 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

627.17 Kas g 1986

Freshwater Microbiology: Biodiversity and Dynamic Interaction of Microoganism…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-471-48528-4

Collation

xix, 145 p. ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

579.176 Sig f

Freshwater MICROBIOLOGY

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0-471-48528-4

Collation

xix, 150 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

579.176 Sig f

Water Pollution and Fish Physiology

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0-8493-4649-5

Collation

150 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

597.02 Hea w

HYDROLOGY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF WATERSHEDS, Third Edition

Edition

3rd

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-8138-2985-2

Collation

xv, 533 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

627 Bro h