Biological Control of Water Pollution
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Biological Control of Water Pollution

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Biological Control of Water Pollution

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Part I. A Rationale for the Biological Approach
  4. 1. Biological Alternatives to Water Pollution
  5. 2. The Economy, Energy, and Clean Water Legislation
  6. 3. The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974: A Call for Action
  7. 4. The Protection and Improvement of the World's Drinking Water Quality
  8. 5. An Environmental Overview
  9. Part II. Limnological Overview
  10. 6. Overview of Aquatic Ecosystems
  11. 7. Nutrient Cycles in Natural Systems: Microbial Involvement
  12. 8. The Role of Aquatic Plants in Aquatic Ecosystems
  13. Part III. Drinking Water Problems
  14. 9. Carcinogenic Organic Chemicals in Drinking Water
  15. 10. Potential Carcinogenic Hazards Due to Contaminated Drinking Water
  16. 11. Groundwater: Fact, Fiction, and Future
  17. 12. Comments on the History and Economics of Micropollutants in Drinking Water
  18. 13. Sudanese Native Methods for the Purification of Nile Water During the Rood Season
  19. Part IV. Biological Treatment of Wastewater
  20. 14. Macrophytes and Water Purification
  21. 15. The Potential of Submersed Vascular Plants for Reclamation of Wastewater in Temperate Zone Ponds
  22. 16. The Purification of Wastewater with the Aid of Rush or Reed Ponds
  23. 17. Application of Vascular Aquatic Plants for Pollution Removal, Energy, and Food Production in a Biological System
  24. 18. Land Treatment of Wastewater by Overland Flow for Improved Water Quality
  25. 19. Experimental Use of Emergent Vegetation for the Biological Treatment of Municipal Wastewater in Wisconsin
  26. 20. The Potential Use of Freshwater Tidal Marshes in the Management of Water Quality in the Delaware River
  27. 21. The Use of Bulrushes for Livestock Feed
  28. 22. The Use of Sawgrass for Paper Product Manufacture: An Examination of Properties
  29. 23. Waste Reclamation in an Integrated Food Chain System
  30. 24. Aquaculture as an Alternative Wastewater Treatment System
  31. 25. A Proposed Integrated Biological Wastewater Treatment System
  32. 26. Sewage Treatment by Controlled Eutrophication Using Algae and Artemia
  33. 27. Interference by Blue-Green Algae with Nutrient Recovery in Water Quality Control Schema: Management Implications
  34. 28. The Use of Bacteria to Reduce Clogging of Sewer Lines by Grease in Municipal Sewage
  35. 29. The Use of the Oxidation Ditch in the United States as a Means of Treating Liquid Waste
  36. Part V. Biological Treatment and Aquifer Recharge
  37. 30. Improvement of Wastewater Quality by Movement Through Soils and Aquifers
  38. 31. Renovation of Municipal Wastewater for Groundwater Recharge by the Living Filter Method
  39. 32. Numerical Models in Groundwater Management
  40. 33. The Combination of Biological and Chemical Treatment at the Krefeld Water Treatment Works
  41. 34. Water Quality Aspects of Well Recharge with Reclaimed Water, Bay Park, New York
  42. Part VI. Implementation of Alternatives
  43. 35. EPA's Response to the Need for Encouragement of Alternative Waste Treatment Techniques
  44. 36. Notes on the Implementation of Alternatives
  45. 37. Legal and Political Restraints to Implementation of Novel Systems
  46. 38. Implementation of Water Quality Plans
  47. 39. Implications of Biological Control of Water Pollution Proposals to the Developing Countries
  48. Acknowledgments
  49. Index