Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Estimating the Susceptibility of Surface Water in Texas to Nonpoint-source Contamination by Use of Logistic Regression Modeling
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Water-resources Investigations Report
Author: Water Pollution Issues and Developments
Author: Sarah V. ThomasPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781604562088
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Pollution is undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities so that the environment becomes harmful or unfit for living things; especially applicable to the contamination of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances. In addition to the harm to living beings, both present or future and known or unknown, pollution cleanup and surveillance are enormous financial drains of the economies of the world. This book focuses on issues and developments critical for the field.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Methods of Rating Unsaturated Zone and Watershed Characteristics of Public Water Supplies in North Carolina
Author: The Incidence and Severity of Sediment Contamination in Surface Waters of the United States
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contaminated sediments
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Guidance Manual for Compliance with the Filtration and Disinfection Requirements for Public Water Systems Using Surface Water Sources
Author: David J. HiltebrandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
This manual suggests design operating and performance criteria for specific surface water quality conditions to provide the optimum protection from microbiological contaminants.
Urban Stormwater Management in the United States
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309125391
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.
Risk Assessment Methods
Author: V.T. CovelloPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489912169
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Much has already been written about risk assessment. Epidemiologists write books on how risk assessment is used to explore the factors that influence the distribution of disease in populations of people. Toxicologists write books on how risk assess ment involves exposing animals to risk agents and concluding from the results what risks people might experience if similarly exposed. Engineers write books on how risk assessment is utilized to estimate the risks of constructing a new facility such as a nuclear power plant. Statisticians write books on how risk assessment may be used to analyze mortality or accident data to determine risks. There are already many books on risk assessment-the trouble is that they all seem to be about different sUbjects! This book takes another approach. It brings together all the methods for assessing risk into a common framework, thus demonstrating how the various methods relate to one another. This produces four important benefits: • First, it provides a comprehensive reference for risk assessment. This one source offers readers concise explanations of the many methods currently available for describing and quantifying diverse types of risks. • Second, it consistently evaluates and compares available risk assessment methods and identifies their specific strengths and limitations. Understand ing the limitations of risk assessment methods is important. The field is still in its infancy, and the problems with available methods are disappoint ingly numerous. At the same time, risk assessment is being used.
Scientific Investigations Report
Author: Sharon E. KroeningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description