This sixth edition of Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water serves as a handbook for scientists, engineers, and other professionals who study and work in drinking water—particularly the quality of water supplies, the quality of treated drinking water, and water treatment processes. It is meant as a resource for those in academics (professors and students), consulting engineering practice, water utilities, federal and state regulatory agencies, and the water process and chemical industries. The book emphasizes principles (theory) and applications (practice). It serves as a companion to the book on design, AWWA-ASCE, Water Treatment Plant Design (the fifth edition is in preparation, with expected publication in late 2011).

This book is an activity of the American Water Works Association’s (AWWA’s) Water Quality and Technology Division (WQTD). James K. Edzwald served as the technical editor and worked with the authors of the chapters in preparing the book. An ad hoc committeeof the WQTD consisting of James P. Malley, Jr., Marilyn M. Marshall, and Dixie Fanning provided advice to the technical editor throughout the preparation of this book.

The definitive water quality and treatment resource--fully revised and updated

Comprehensive, current, and written by leading experts, Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water, Sixth Edition covers state-of-the-art technologies and methods for water treatment and quality control. Significant revisions and new material in this edition reflect the latest advances and critical topics in water supply and treatment. Presented by the American Water Works Association, this is the leading source of authoritative information on drinking water quality and treatment.

NEW CHAPTERS ON:

• Chemical principles, source water composition, and watershed protection
• Natural treatment systems
• Water reuse for drinking water augmentation
• Ultraviolet light processes
• Formation and control of disinfection by-products

DETAILED COVERAGE OF:

• Drinking water standards, regulations, goals, and health effects
• Hydraulic characteristics of water treatment reactors
• Gas-liquid processes and chemical oxidation
• Coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, and flotation
• Granular media and membrane filtration
• Ion exchange and adsorption of inorganic contaminants
• Precipitation, coprecipitation, and precipitative softening
• Adsorption of organic compounds by activated carbon
• Chemical disinfection
• Internal corrosion and deposition control
• Microbiological quality control in distribution systems
• Water treatment plant residuals management