In our changing world, society demands more comprehensive and thoughtful solutions from environmental engineers, environmental consultants and scientists dealing with the degradation of our environment. Lead by Nelson Nemerow and Franklin Agardy, experts in business, academia, government and practice have been brought together in Environmental Solutions to provide guidance for these environmental professionals. The reader is presented with a variety of solutions to common and not so common environmental problems which lay the groundwork for environmental advocates to decide which solutions will work best for their particular circumstances. This book discusses chemical, biological, physical, forensic, medical, international, economic, political, industrial-collaborative solutions and solutions for rural and developing countries giving readers the freedom to evaluate a variety of options and make informed decisions. End of chapter questions and additional resources are included making this an invaluable teaching tool and ideal reference for those currently involved in improving and preserving our environment.

Environmental Solutions: Environmental Problems and the All-inclusive global, scientific, political, legal, economic, medical, and engineering bases to solve them

Science & Math

Agardy, Franklin J.

Nemerow, Nelson Leonard

Biological Sciences

Academic Press

Any professional examination of existing or potential new toxins in a population must account for those already present from past problems and natural conditions. Toxic Legacy provides extensive information on the occurrence of chemical hazards and their potential dangers in combinations in the food, water and air in cities around the United States. The book illustrates consumer preferences for specific food and water products, as well as particular diets and discusses the toxicity and risks associated with our exposure to synthetic chemicals. The authors offer unique guidance to environmental engineers, scientists, process engineers, and planners and specify what steps can be taken to limit exposure to complex chemical mixtures.

Toxic Legacy: Synthetic Toxins in the Food, Water and Air of American Cities

Sullivan, Patrick

Clark, James J.J.

Rosenfeld, Paul E.

Chemistry

First published in 1958, Salvato's Environmental Engineering has long been the definitive reference for generations of sanitation and environmental engineers. Approaching its fiftieth year of continual publication in a rapidly changing field, the Sixth Edition has been fully reworked and reorganized into three separate, succinct volumes to adapt to a more complex and scientifically demanding field with dozens of specializations. 
Updated and reviewed by leading experts in the field, this revised edition offers new process and plant design examples and added coverage of such subjects as urban and rural systems. Stressing the practicality and appropriateness of treatment, the Sixth Edition provides realistic solutions for the practicing public health official, water treatment engineer, plant operator, and others in the domestic and industrial waste treatment professions. This volume, Environmental Engineering: Water, Wastewater, Soil and Groundwater Treatment and Remediation, Sixth Edition, covers: <ul>
<li> Water treatment </li> <li> Water supply </li> <li> Wastewater treatment </li> </ul>

Environmental Engineering: Water, Wastewater, Soil and Groundwater Treatment and Remediation

Engineering & Transportation

Salvato, Joseph A.

Nemerow, Nelson L.

Sullivan, Patrick J.

Engineering

wiley

First published in 1958, Salvato's Environmental Engineering has long been the definitive reference for generations of sanitation and environmental engineers. Approaching its fiftieth year of continual publication in a rapidly changing field, the Sixth Edition has been fully reworked and reorganized into three separate, succinct volumes to adapt to a more complex and scientifically demanding field with dozens of specializations. 
Updated and reviewed by leading experts in the field, this revised edition offers new coverage of appropriate technology for developing countries. Stressing the practicality and appropriateness of treatment, the Sixth Edition provides realistic solutions for the practicing public health official or environmental engineer. This volume, Environmental Engineering: Prevention and Response to Water-, Food-, Soil-, and Airborne Disease and Illness, Sixth Edition covers: <ul>
<li> Disease transmission by contaminated water </li> <li> Food-borne diseases </li> <li> Control of diseases of the air and land </li> <li> Appropriate technology for developing countries </li> <li> Environmental emergencies and emergency preparedness </li> </ul>

Environmental Engineering: Prevention and Response to Water-, Food-, Soil-, and Air-borne Disease and Illness

First published in 1958, Salvato's Environmental Engineering has long been the definitive reference for generations of sanitation and environmental engineers. Approaching its 50th year of continual publication in a rapidly changing field, the Sixth Edition has been fully reworked and reorganized into three separate, succinct volumes to adapt to amore complex and scientifically demanding field with dozens of specializations. 
Updated and reviewed by leading experts in the field, this revised edition offers new coverage of industrial solid wastes utilization and disposal, the use of surveying in environmental engineering and land use planning, and environmental assessment. Stressing the practicality and appropriateness of treatment, the Sixth Edition provides realistic solutions for the practicing public health official or environmental engineer. This volume, Environmental Health and Safety for Municipal Infrastructure, Land Use and Planning, and Industry, Sixth Edition, covers: <ul>
<li> Municipal and industrial waste and pollution including landfills and facility, office and residential sanitation, and air quality </li> <li> The environmental health of residential and institutional spaces such as homes and offices, including indoor air quality, sanitation, and the impact of substandard construction techniques </li> <li> Land use planning and forensics techniques for investigating repurposed industrial and agricultural land </li> <li> Air pollution and noise control </li> <li> Surveying and mapping for environmental engineering </li> </ul>

Environmental Engineering: Environmental Health and Safety for Municipal Infrastructure, Land Use and Planning, and Industry

Arts & Photography

Strategies of Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management by Nelson L. Nemerow and Frank J. Agardy For years, plant engineers, engineering professors, municipal engineers, EPA personnel, and other professionals have relied on the expertise of these authors in the area of industrial and hazardous waste management. This book is full of new ideas, methods, models, data, updated information, and new case histories. This latest classic reference from Nelson Nemerow and Frank Agardy is by far the most comprehensive and useful source available on the generation, treatment, and disposal of all significant industrial and hazardous wastes. Strategies of Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management addresses the needs of its wide-ranging audience by dividing its coverage into four parts: Part I presents the basic information the industrial waste engineer needs to know about the environmental impact of various wastes, writing environmental impact statements, protecting streams from further pollution, calculating final treatments, testing treatment efficiency, and the influence of economic factors on waste treatment decisions. Part II explores theories and designs of waste treatment, and shows how waste can be reduced through proper operation of manufacturing plants. It ranges beyond the removal of suspended and colloidal solids to include coverage of neutralization, equalization and proportioning, removal of inorganic dissolved salts, and private contract collection and treatment. Also included is a novel paradigm for obtaining zero pollution in the future through environmentally balanced industrial complexes. Part III demonstrates waste management in action, using case studies from around the world to show theories and models successfully adapted and put into practice. All cases are based on the authors' actual experiences--the cases in Chapters 17, 19, 22, 23, and 24 have never been previously published. Part IV offers concise evaluations of all major liquid Industrial wastes, including their origins, characteristics, and acceptable treatments. Industries are classified into six categories: apparel, food processing, materials, chemicals, energy, and (in significantly extended coverage) non-point practices. Included are separate considerations of radioactive and hazardous (as opposed to conventional) waste. No waste-management professional should be without this essential volume. Focused on need-to-know information, common pitfalls, and practical solutions to all kinds of problems, Strategies of Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management is an answer source unlike any other.

Strategies of Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management, 2nd Edition

Agardy, Franklin

Agardy, Frank P.

A comprehensive practical guide to environmental forensics With real-world examples and advice on both scientific and legal issues, Practical Environmental Forensics stands on the front line of this new interdisciplinary approach to the environmental litigation process. Compiled by experts with decades of combined experience in teaching, research, consulting, and litigation, it is the first book to offer a comprehensive presentation of environmental forensics.The first section provides an introduction to the forensic process, a historical perspective on pollution, and related laws and insurance issues. The book continues with a review of the most commonly used technical approaches and methods employed to support forensic litigation case issues. A third section introduces essential environmental forensic support functions, including admissibility of evidence, expert case management, and the use of mediation methods in settling cases. Finally, the book explores the environmental forensic process through an extensive body of real case studies in which the authors have participated. This comprehensive guidebook includes: * Guidance in the development and presentation of forensic opinions within the litigation process * Stand-alone applications of historical research, groundwater contaminant modeling, chemical fingerprinting, toxicology, and risk assessment to environmental litigation * Chemical and investigative forensic methods presented within the context of environmental forensic case histories * Illustrative problem-solving as an invaluable teaching and learning resource * Typical forensic cases grouped to illustrate the three main areas of environmental litigation: minimizing damages to clients, allocating damages between responsible parties, and resolution of insurance-related issues For engineers, scientists, attorneys, government regulators, financial and real estate professionals, and the broad spectrum of environmental consultants, this book is critical for all whose work involves environmental contamination.

Practical Environmental Forensics: Process and Case Histories

Traub, Richard K.

Earth Sciences

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How to Read Faster and Better

Education & Teaching

Studying & Workbooks

Peterson's

In today’s chemically dependent society, environmental studies demonstrate that drinking water in developed countries contains numerous industrial chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and chemicals from water treatment processes. This poses a real threat. As a result of the ever-expanding list of chemical and biochemical products industry, current drinking water standards that serve to preserve our drinking water quality are grossly out of date. Environmental Science of Drinking Water demonstrates why we need to make a fundamental change in our approach toward protecting our drinking water. Factual and circumstantial evidence showing the failure of current drinking water standards to adequately protect human health is presented along with analysis of the extent of pollution in our water resources and drinking water. The authors also present detail of the currently available state-of-the-art technologies which, if fully employed, can move us toward a healthier future. * Addresses the international problems of outdated standards and the overwhelming onslaught of new contaminants. * Includes new monitoring data on non-regulated chemicals in water sources and drinking water. * Includes a summary of different bottled waters as well as consumer water purification technologies.

The Environmental Science of Drinking Water

Butterworth-Heinemann

Prior to the 1900s, the dominant chemical pollutants were inorganic and coal-derived organic chemicals. As chemical manufacturing blossomed during the mid-1900s, a wide variety of synthetic petroleum-based chemicals were produced and released to the environment. Today, our nation's chemical manufacturers produce approximately 87,000 different chemicals. Current estimates predict the manufacture of some 2,000 new chemical compounds each year. With so many chemicals being produced and used, it is no wonder that a significant portion of the nation's lakes, rivers and groundwater contain a wide range of industrial inorganic and organic compounds, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals. These same water resources serve as the source for community drinking water systems and private groundwater wells. In 1925, the United States Public Health Service's Primary Drinking Water Standards required that the concentration of three trace metals not exceed certain limits in drinking water. This requirement could be considered to have been as the first step in controlling chemical pollution. By 1962, nine trace metals and inorganic compounds were included in the drinking water standards. Today, in compliance with the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act and its amendments, the Primary Drinking Water Standards still only limit the concentration of a very small number of inorganic chemicals, industrial organic compounds and organic pesticides. These regulated compounds represent the major sources of pollution from chemical usage between the 1930s and the1980s. Since this time period, the number of industrial chemicals, pesticides and pharmaceuticals that have been produced and are now found in our waters has increased dramatically. Thus, many of the chemical pollutants found in our waters today are not regulated by current standards. In 1998, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) proposed adding 50 chemicals to the current list of Primary Drinking Water Standards. Yet pharmaceuticals do not even appear on this list of 50. Given the number of chemicals being used in the United States today and the apparent inability of drinking water standards to rapidly adapt to these changes, it is clear that drinking water standards, as currently implemented, are incapable of keeping pace with the unregulated chemicals that are currently found in our drinking water. Until the US Geological Survey published the results of their 2000 river sampling program for toxic chemicals, the general public was not even aware of the presence of this vast array of unregulated organic chemicals. Yet, because the concentrations of these chemicals are very low, the public was told that it was unlikely that these chemicals would have any impact on their health. Approximately 50 years ago, the National Agricultural Chemicals Association argued that pesticides in low concentrations would have no effect on wildlife and that cancer, which had afflicted mankind for centuries, could not be shown to be caused by pesticides. After decades of research, these opinions have both been proven to be wrong. Today, one of the main reasons the public is told that these new chemicals are unlikely to affect their health is because quantifying the effects of such low levels of chemical contamination is nearly impossible. We believe that the likelihood of adverse health effects is far greater than advertised but that it will take decades of research before this link is proven. Thus, it may not be in the public's best interest to assume there are no health effects from the consumption of low levels of man-made chemicals. Indeed, a January 2002 report by the Environmental Working Group entitled, "Consider the Source, Farm Runoff, Chlorination Byproducts, and Human Health," concluded that chemical pollutants in drinking water pose a serious health threat to the American public in general and pregnant women in particular. As a result, this report recommends that a national health tracking system be set up to better quantify the health impacts of drinking water pollutants. This recommendation, however, skirts the real issue, which is that drinking water in many parts of the United States is polluted by both regulated and unregulated chemicals. Thus, the safety or the purity of drinking water is not guaranteed even if the standards are met. Indeed, when attempting to determine the government's approach toward protecting public health, one is confronted with a bewildering web of regulatory programs and a sea of acronyms. For example, the quality of water delivered to a consumer is dependent upon whether the water comes from a Community Water Systems (CWS), Nontransient-Noncommunity Water Systems (NTNCWS) or Transient-Noncommunity Water Systems (TNCWS); and depending upon the size of the system, the chemical monitoring requirements may vary substantially. In addition, some water systems must comply with the enhanced surface water treatment rule (Stage 2 D/DBPR and the LT2ESWTR), the Groundwater Disinfection Rule (GWDR), and the Information Collection Rule (ICR) when attempting to meet 'primary' standards. To further complicate the issue, the USEPA has established Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for various chemicals as well as nonenforceable Maximum Contaminant Level Goals (MCLGs). They also recommend a Best Available Technology (BAT) by which water systems can try to meet these MCLs and MCLGs. The artificial complexity and cost of this compliance system alone is reason enough for why a new system is needed. Given this situation, the only reasonable recommendation is to treat drinking water across the board with a combination of the best available technologies in order to produce a product with the greatest purity possible. By adopting this approach, pollutant monitoring using chemical fingerprinting methods to ensure that treatment systems are operating properly can be used in lieu of drinking water standards. Because there is a real threat to America's drinking water, this book attempts to show why we need to make a fundamental change in our approach toward protecting this essential resource. In doing so, it presents (1) factual and circumstantial evidence that shows the failure of current drinking water standards to adequately protect human health, (2) the extent of pollution in our water resources and drinking water, (3) the currently available state-of-the-art technologies which, if fully employed, would remove pollutants in drinking water to levels much lower than required by today's standards and (4) the technical means by which we can attain the goal of de-minimus pollution of our drinking water. With this information, the American public will have the means to decide whether or not to demand drinking water of the greatest level of purity possible.

America's Threatened Drinking Water: Hazards and Solutions

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Trafford on Demand Pub

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