Second Edition
by John DeZuane
The second edition of Handbook of Drinking Water Quality, builds on the legacy of the first edition, with the same practical and conceptual emphases, adding a wealth of new information that provides immediate access to data and guidelines.
As a quick reference handbook and technical manual, Handbook of Drinking Water Quality, Second Edition, is an essential volume for engineers, water supply and treatment personnel, environmental scientists, public health officials, or anyone responsible for assuring the safety of drinking water.
Provides Data and Guidelines Needed to:
- Understand the impact of drinking water parameters on public health
- Help build and operate water supply facilities
- Conduct reliable drinking water sampling, monitoring, and analytical evaluation
- Implement potability standards from the source to the treatment facility, to storage, to the tap
- Write new standards and expand/modify existing standards as quickly as needed
Describes in Detail:
- Data and guidelines from the World Health Organization and the European Community used to develop drinking water standards
- U.S. drinking water standards-their physical, chemical, microbiological, and radionuclide parameters and monitoring requirements
- EPA-approved analytical methods and the most effective treatment technologies for each contaminant
- Critical concepts of water quality control as applied in water treatment in conventional or chemical treatment plants
- Disinfection and fluoridation requirements
- Common problems with water distribution systems, including dead ends, sediments, bacterial growth, insufficient pressure, and main breaks
Expanded and Updated Information on:
- All drinking water regulations issued since the previous edition in 1990
- Current drinking water standards adopted by the European Community
- Lead poisoning, radon, and Cryptosporidium
- Compulsory water treatment for lead and copper
- Coliform Rule compliance (disinfection and filtration)
- Trihalomethane reduction with ozonation
Contents:
- Potable Water
- General or Physical Parameters
- Chemical Parameters-Inorganics
- Chemical Parameters-Organic Compounds
- Microbiological Parameters
- Radionuclide Parameters
- Carcinogens
- Water Analysis
- Public Health Regulations
- Water Treatment
- Federal Regulations
Appendixes:
Abbreviations and Acronyms
World Health Organization Guidelines
European Drinking Water Directives
Water Quality Data
New York State Standards
Radionuclide Data
Fluoridation Data
General References
Conversion Factors
Index
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