Monitoring Water Quality - Pollution Assessment, Analysis, and Remediation (Electronic book text, New ed.)

"Monitoring Water Quality" is a practical assessment of one of the most pressing growth and sustainability issues in the developed and developing worlds: water quality. Over the last 10 years, improved laboratory techniques have led to the discovery of microbial and viral contaminants, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors in our fresh water supplies that were not monitored previously.

This book offers in-depth coverage of water quality issues (natural and human-related), monitoring of contaminants, a and remediation of water contamination. In particular, readers will learn about arsenic removal techniques, real-time monitoring, and risk assessment. "Monitoring Water Quality" is a vital text for students and professionals in environmental science, civil engineering, chemistry OCo anyone concerned with issues of water analysis and sustainability assessment.
Covers in depth the scope of sustainable water problems on a worldwide scaleProvides a rich source of sophisticated methods for analyzing water to assure its safetyDescribes the monitoring of contaminants, including pharmaceutical and endocrine disruptorsHelps to quickly identify the sources and fates of contaminants and sources of pollutants and their loading