David Sedlak
Auteur de Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource
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David Sedlak is the Malozemoff Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, co-director of the Berkeley Water Center, and deputy director of the National Science Foundation's engineering research center for Reinventing the Nation's afficher plus Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt). He is the 2014 recipient of the National Water Research Institute Clarke Prize. afficher moins
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Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the… par David Sedlak
I actually learned quite a bit! Very dry, even for a treatise on water supply and treatment, I found it a tough slog at times. But worth the read! At the very least, I'm recommending this to everyone I know that works in water and waste water.
This book is concerned with urban water systems. It only deals with crop growth to the extent that they use recycled urban water.
The book starts with Rome It was a large city that needed additional work to get the water into the city because it was so big. This is water 1.0. Many of their techniques are still in use today.
Water 2.0 is purification of the water system. When we realized that chemicals in our water were making us sick we tried out various treatment options.
Water 3.0 is treatment of the waste water. When we found that the city upstream had a dramatic influence on the quality of downstream municipal water supplies waste water treatment became common.
Of 13 chapters, I read chapter 6 “The Chlorine Dilemma” first because I have interest in our present urban water quality. Chapter 8 returns to the theme of contaminants in our water and their effect: “Traces of Trouble: Hormones, Pharmaceuticals, and Toxic Chemicals.”
Improvements are not free, and there is reluctance to spend money, as well as opposition to some of the solutions.… (plus d'informations)
The book starts with Rome It was a large city that needed additional work to get the water into the city because it was so big. This is water 1.0. Many of their techniques are still in use today.
Water 2.0 is purification of the water system. When we realized that chemicals in our water were making us sick we tried out various treatment options.
Water 3.0 is treatment of the waste water. When we found that the city upstream had a dramatic influence on the quality of downstream municipal water supplies waste water treatment became common.
Of 13 chapters, I read chapter 6 “The Chlorine Dilemma” first because I have interest in our present urban water quality. Chapter 8 returns to the theme of contaminants in our water and their effect: “Traces of Trouble: Hormones, Pharmaceuticals, and Toxic Chemicals.”
Improvements are not free, and there is reluctance to spend money, as well as opposition to some of the solutions.… (plus d'informations)
Excellent overview of how we use this precious resource. It is written for the layperson, but is well-footnoted for the more serious reader. Explanations of the environmental issues as well as the cost constraints are helpful in understanding the problems and provide enough information so that we can ask the pertinent questions of our water managers and leaders.
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- 2
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- 80
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- #224,854
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- 3.5
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- 3
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