Author: United States. National Nuclear Security Administration. Los Alamos Site OfficePublisher:
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Category : Land treatment of wastewater
Languages : en
Pages :
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Draft Environmental Assessment for the Expansion of the Sanitary Effluent Reclamation Facility and Environmental Restoration of Reach S-2 of Sandia Canyon at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Author: United States. National Nuclear Security Administration. Los Alamos Site OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land treatment of wastewater
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Pajarito Plateau
Author: Frances Joan MathienPublisher:
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Category : Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Draft Environmental Impact Report for Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant (SRWTP) Reclaimed Water Project
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages :
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Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Rancho-Temecula Effluent Pipeline, Rancho California Regional Water Reclamation Facility
Author: Planning Consultants ResearchPublisher:
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages :
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Draft Environmental Impact Report on the Proposed Water System Expansion Sacramento, California
Author: Environmental Assessment and Resource PlanningPublisher:
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309463076
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Americans' safety, productivity, comfort, and convenience depend on the reliable supply of electric power. The electric power system is a complex "cyber-physical" system composed of a network of millions of components spread out across the continent. These components are owned, operated, and regulated by thousands of different entities. Power system operators work hard to assure safe and reliable service, but large outages occasionally happen. Given the nature of the system, there is simply no way that outages can be completely avoided, no matter how much time and money is devoted to such an effort. The system's reliability and resilience can be improved but never made perfect. Thus, system owners, operators, and regulators must prioritize their investments based on potential benefits. Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System focuses on identifying, developing, and implementing strategies to increase the power system's resilience in the face of events that can cause large-area, long-duration outages: blackouts that extend over multiple service areas and last several days or longer. Resilience is not just about lessening the likelihood that these outages will occur. It is also about limiting the scope and impact of outages when they do occur, restoring power rapidly afterwards, and learning from these experiences to better deal with events in the future.
Desalination
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309119235
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
There has been an exponential increase in desalination capacity both globally and nationally since 1960, fueled in part by growing concern for local water scarcity and made possible to a great extent by a major federal investment for desalination research and development. Traditional sources of supply are increasingly expensive, unavailable, or controversial, but desalination technology offers the potential to substantially reduce water scarcity by converting the almost inexhaustible supply of seawater and the apparently vast quantities of brackish groundwater into new sources of freshwater. Desalination assesses the state of the art in relevant desalination technologies, and factors such as cost and implementation challenges. It also describes reasonable long-term goals for advancing desalination technology, posits recommendations for action and research, estimates the funding necessary to support the proposed research agenda, and identifies appropriate roles for governmental and nongovernmental entities.
The 1996 Baseline Environmental Management Report: Report
Author: The San Juan-Chama Project
Author: Leah S. GlaserEnvironmental Realism
Author: Kristan CockerillPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319528246
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This interdisciplinary book challenges current approaches to “environmental problems” that perpetuate flawed but deeply embedded cultural beliefs about the role of science and technology in society. The authors elucidate and interrogate a cultural history of solutionism that typifies expectations that science can, should, and will reduce risk to people and property by containing and controlling biophysical phenomena. Using historical analysis, eco-evolutionary principles, and case studies on floods, radioactive waste, and epidemics, the authors show that perceived solutions to “environmental problems” generate new problems, leading to problem-solution cycles of increasing scope and complexity. The authors encourage readers to challenge the ideology of solutionism by considering the potential of language, social action and new paradigms of sustainability to shape management systems. This book will appeal to scholars in multi- and interdisciplinary fields such as Environment Studies, Environmental Science, Environmental Policy, and Science, Technology, and Society Studies.