Global Drinking Water Management and Conservation

From the content: Part I Water Ecology And Ecosystem Integrity: Introduction to Drinking Water Management.- Water in a Global Context.- What this Book is about.- Waterborne Disease Outbreaks and the Multi-Barrier Approach to Protecting Drinking Water.- Introduction.- Protozoa.-Bacteria.- Lessons from Disease Outbreaks.- Pricniples of Watershed Management.- Conclusion.- Part II Drinking Water Treatment Technology and Pricing.- Water Treatment Technologies and Their Costs.- Six Classes of Water Treatment Technologies.- Projected Costs: Ultra Violet, Micro Filtration - Ultra Filtration, High Rate Treatment and Clarification, and Ozonation.- Class 5 Treatment Technologies.- Reverse Osmosis and Nano-Filtration (Classe 6).- Examples of Actual Costs of a Few Existing Plants.- Summing up and Tentative Conclusions.- Reverse Osmosis and other Treatment Technologies.- Water Desalination Technology in Application.- Desalination Processes.- Relative Costs of Desalination Technologies.- The Theory of Water and Utility Pricing.- The Dupuit-Hotelling Theory of Marginal Cost Pricing.- Private versus Public Production.-Absolute Efficiency Advantage.-Second Best (Ramsey) Pricing.- Econometric Estimation of Shadow Ramsey Pricing.- Water Pricing Practice in Developed Countries.-Part Three: Incorporating Risk In Decision-Making.- Risk Assessment for Safe Potable Water Supplies.- Water Source Protection.- Risk Management Methods for Producing Potable Water Supplies.- Case Studies of Risk Assessment.- Introduction to Water Infrastructure Asset Management.- Incorporating Risk in Water Infrastructure Management.- Risk Assessment.- Decision Support System (DSS) Incorporating Risk.- Computing a Model for Asset Management with Risk.- Towards solving the DSS.- Application of Risk into the DSS.- Case Studies from British Columbia.- Threats to Human Health: use of Chlorine, an Obsolete Treatment Technology.- Long Term Health Effects of Using Chlorine.- Management Practices in the Developed Countries.- Conclusion.- Public Health and Lead Sampling Protocols for Drinking Water: A Critical Review.... Mehr