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PremiumSafety, Health and Security Standards for Water Resource Recovery, MOP 1, 7th Edition
Safety, Health and Security Standards for Water Resource Recovery, MOP 1, 7th Edition serves as an injury-reduction tool to all those working in the wastewater field. It contains best practices for creating written safety programs and procedures as well as guidelines that describe how to perform a variety of tasks safely and securely. From the laboratory to collection systems applications, this ...
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Green Asset Management
Asset management frameworks have been applied across water-sector facilities and emerged as a promising strategy for distributed green stormwater infrastructure. ...
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M23 PVC Pipe - Design and Installation, Third Edition
This manual provides the user with both general and technical information to aid in design, procurement, installation, and maintenance of PVC pipe and fittings. This manual presents a discussion of recommended practices. It is not intended to be a technical commentary on AWWA standards that apply to PVC pipe, fittings, and related appurtenances. Topics covered include: general properties of ...
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Tucson Water Turnaround: Crisis to Success
In the 1990s, Tucson Water changed water sources without considering the limitations of their existing distribution system or the taste and odor effects for customers. The new water caused pipe corrosion for customers, damaged the distribution system, and created a public relations nightmare. The authors’ first-hand experiences, first-person recollections, and newly unearthed records tell the ...
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Let's Talk Safety: 52 Talks on Common Utility Safety Practices for Water Professionals
Stop wondering what to talk about and spending your valuable time preparing presentations. Let’s Talk Safety makes it easy for safety officers to spend a few minutes each week communicating with employees about the critical importance of working safely. This quick and easy book provides 52 short briefings tailored specifically for water utility employees, plus links to additional resources. Each ...
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European Journal of Sustainable Development
The opportunity to use the tangible resources of our planet – water, air, subterranean depths – secure the existence of our civilization. Despite the existence of private property and the division of ownership of tangible resources between natural and legal persons, the resources required for life are objectively determined by the very life form. Any living creature needs air, water ...
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M60 Drought Preparedness and Response, Second Edition
Providing a reliable supply of water requires being prepared for water shortages of varying degree and duration, and preparing for drought and water shortages before they occur is the best defense. A Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP) enables a water supplier to assess the risks and reduce the vulnerability of a community to drought impacts and establishes priorities that will provide water ...
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M77 Condition Assessment of Water Mains
As their infrastructures age, utilities are increasingly challenged to maintain levels of service while keeping water affordable to all. Water main condition assessment helps utilities meet this challenge by identifying more precisely where money is best spent, leaving in place pipelines that have adequate integrity, and preventing the unnecessary failure of others. This manual provides ...
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Standards Official Notice - March 2019
The following AWWA Standards are effective on March 1, 2019: B201-18 Soda Ash B304-18 Liquid Oxygen for Ozone Generaton for Water, Wastewater and Reclaimed ...
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M24 Planning for the Distribution of Reclaimed Water, Fourth Edition
The distribution of reclaimed water using dual water distribution systems, one for potable water and the other for nonpotable water, is a widely accepted practice. Some drivers for the increasing use of reclaimed water include diminishing supplies of high-quality water resources, escalating costs for developing new sources or for treating poor-quality water to potable-water standards, and the ...
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Standards Official Notice - January 2019
The following AWWA Standards are effective January 1, 2019: C502-18 Dry-Barrel Fire Hydrants C503-18 Wet-Barrel Fire Hydrants C518-18 Double-Disc Swing-Check Valves for Waterworks Service C521-18 Plastic Ball Valves G410-18 Business Practices for Operation and ...
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Water and Wastewater Laboratory Techniques
New Edition Provides Updated Guidance on Analytical Methods and Lab Techniques. Water and Wastewater Laboratory Techniques, Second Edition is a teaching and reference tool for educating water and wastewater analysts in the skills and techniques of the bench chemist. Extensively revised and updated to reflect current compliance requirements and standard methods for water and wastewater analysis, ...
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Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy
Sustainable chemistry technology, EcoBioClean®, degrades crude oil, catalyzing conversion into energy source used by microorganisms and other ...
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Water Operator Certification Exam Prep
AWWA’s most popular operator training aid, this study guide is specially designed to give water operators and students practice in answering questions that are similar in format and content to the questions that appear on state certification exams. Sample questions and answers for both water treatment and distribution systems are included. This study guide was developed by AWWA in cooperation ...
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Standards Official Notice - June 2018
The following AWWA Standards will be effective June 2018: ANSI/AWWA B604-18 Granular Activated Carbon ANSI/AWWA B605-18 Reactivation of Granular Activated Carbon ANSI/AWWA G485-18 Direct Potable Reuse Program ...
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Standards Official Notice - May 2018
The following AWWA Standards will be effective May 2018: ANSI/AWWA B303-18 Sodium Chlorite ANSI/AWWA B408-18 Liquid Polyaluminum Chloride ANSI/AWWA B510-18 Carbon Dioxide ANSI/AWWA C222-18 Polyurethane Coatings and Linings ANSI/AWWA C655-18 Field ...
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Financing Water to 2030: Charting the changing flows of public and private capital to water infrastructure
The paradigm for financing water infrastructure is changing. As the need for investment is becoming more urgent, governments are finding themselves increasingly constrained by their over stretched balance sheets. At the same time demographic change is driving demand for investments which can deliver a steady yield with a low degree of risk – the kind of profile that only water can ...
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M32 Computer Modeling of Water Distribution Systems, Fourth Edition
Computer modeling is a water utility’s most powerful tool for managing and operating a water distribution system. This 4th edition of M32 Computer Modeling of Water Distribution Systems, describes how to build accurate water distribution system models, and use models to manage assets and solve hydraulic and water quality problems. The manual discusses how to use models to: Predict pressures and ...
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Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 23rd Edition
With approximately 80 methods revised and 5 new methods added, Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 23rd edition provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive resource for measuring the biological, chemical, and physical attributes of waters and offers guidance for choosing among available methods for specific elements and compounds. Analysts, researchers, and regulators ...
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Hazardous Pollutants in Biological Treatment Systems: A Guide to Fundamentals and Experimental Research
Hazardous Pollutants in Biological Treatment Systems examines the behaviour, removal and effects of hazardous pollutants in biological treatment. While in former years the main aim in biological treatment was the removal of bulk organic matter or nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, due to the discharge of a number of specific inorganic or organic hazardous compounds into wastewater ...
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