Books

Book: Water Resources Systems Planning and Management

This new book by Daniel P. Loucks and Eelco van Beek (UNESCO PUBLISHING) will be out soon at your near by store. In the meanwhile it can be downloaded free from Delft Hydraulics ftp. The size of the file is about 400MB so before you go ahead with the download, look at this file here [...]

Comprehensive Handbook on Water Quality Analysis for Distribution Systems

New book from MWH Soft: Comprehensive Handbook on Water Quality Analysis for Distribution Systems By Kevin E. Lansey and Paul F. Boulos. Safe drinking water is essential to life. While effective water treatment is imperative, the distribution system itself represents the final barrier in safeguarding water quality and plays a critical role in protecting a [...]

Comprehensive Water Distribution Systems Analysis Handbook for Engineers and Planners

This book announcement was received from Kevin Lansey: Comprehensive Water Distribution Systems Analysis Handbook for Engineers and Planners By Paul Boulos, Kevin Lansey and Bryan Karney This comprehensive 584-page instructional textbook covers everything students, professional engineers, managers, modelers, health department officials, government agencies, consultants, researchers and GIS professionals need to know about how to reliably [...]

Watercom Engineering book auction

Frank Fisl, from Watercom Engineering, announced a book auction at the company web site: We are presently auctioning off our remaining book inventory with prices starting as low as $1. You may place your bids before the auction ends on July 19. The books are sorted by category, i.e. General Sciences, Geology, Hydraulics, Hydrology, Pollution [...]

Book: Advanced Water Distribution Modeling and Management

From Haestad Press’ online books: Advanced Water Distribution Modeling and Management builds on Haestad Pressג€™ best-selling Water Distribution Modeling book. Addressing the modeling process from data collection to application, Advanced Water Distribution Modeling & Management includes all the material from the best-selling Water Distribution Modeling book plus many additional topics. See the book online here. [...]

Safe piped water: Managing microbial water quality in piped distribution systems

Published by the World Health Organization (WHO): Safe Piped Water addresses the factors affecting the presence and growth of micro-organisms in piped networks as well as the practices of water supply organisations that can directly or indirectly influence their presence and growth. The book shows that there are often public health reasons for adopting a [...]

Book: “Water Supply Systems Security”

“Water Supply Systems Security” by Larry Mays (editor) is actually a collection of articles covering a wide area of the security issue. This book deals with vulnerability assessment, cyber threats, early warning systems, security hardware, reliability, remote monitoring and more. About half of the 18 chapters in the book were written by people from the [...]