Butterworth-Heinemann Drinking Water Security for Engineers, Planners, and Managers: Integrated Water Security Series

Product Description Concise and readable, Drinking Water Security for Engineers, Planners and Managers provides an overview of issues including infrastructure planning, planning to evaluate vulnerabilities and potential threats, capital improvement planning, and maintenance and risk management. This book also covers topics regarding potential contaminants, available water security technologies, analytical methods, and sensor technologies and networks. Other topics include transport and containment of contaminated water, treatment technologies and the treatability of contaminants. Review Gain an understanding of the key elements of water infrastructures from the ground up and creating more secure systems. From the Back Cover Ravi Jain is Dean and Professor of the School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. Threat/vulnerability risk assessments and capital improvement Identification and characterization of potential contaminants and clean up Application of information assurance techniques to computerized systems A guide to the latest security technologies to detect and monitor contaminants and prevent security breaches. Drinking Water Security for Engineers, Planners, and Managers provides professionals with an overview of the latest technologies and techniques which will lead to planning and maintaining an effective drinking water infrastructure. Drinking Water Security for Engineers, Planners, and Managers provides an overview of engineering, planning, and management issues including: infrastructure planning, planning to evaluate vulnerabilities and potential threats, capital improvement planning and maintenance, and risk management. Topics regarding potential contaminants, available water security technologies, analytical methods, and sensor technologies and sensor networks are also discussed. Other topics include: transport and containment of contaminated water, treatment Technologies and treatability of contaminants. Related Titles: Ratnayaka/Water Supply, Sixth Edition/ 9780750668439 Kresic /Groundwater Hydrology of Springs: Engineering, Theory, Management, and Sustainability/ 9781856175029 About the Author Ravi Jain is Dean and Professor of the School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from California State University, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Texas Tech. He studied public administration and public policy at Harvard, earning an M.P.A. degree and did additional graduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).