Water Quality: Diffuse Pollution and Watershed Management [Hardcover]

Vladimir Novotny (Author)

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Hardcover: 888 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (Nov 1 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471396338
ISBN-13: 978-0471396338
Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 4.8 x 23.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,954,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Provides all new material on urban, industrial, and highway pollution, as well as on management and restoration of streams, lakes, and watershed management techniques.
* Includes revised chapters on agricultural diffuse pollution; control of urban, highway, and industrial diffuse pollution; and wetlands considerations.
* All regulatory data is up to date, with new material provided on judicial law based on significant decisions made in recent years.

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Sound, practical advice on managing and controlling diffuse source water pollution and watershed management

This new edition of Water Quality provides the latest tools to prevent and abate diffuse pollution, as well as innovative problem-solving approaches for water and soil resources damaged by diffuse pollution. The information and techniques presented here emphasize sustainability, protection, and restoration of resources, while also considering land-use ethics and socioeconomic aspects of abatement and preservation.

This Second Edition's substantially updated material covers significant advances made in understanding and controlling diffuse pollution, such as key information on atmospheric deposition, pollutant interaction with soils, models for estimating loading of diffuse pollution from land, predicting safe water and soil acceptance of residual pollution, and use of GIS technology. State-of-the-art technical and socioeconomic tools are presented for controlling and abating diffuse pollution in such areas as urban, highway, agricultural, and industrial environments, as well as for managing and restoring streams, lakes, and watersheds. Providing both national and international outlooks, new chapters are included describing the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) process, and material in other chapters is extensively updated to reflect the latest regulatory guidelines and new information on major legal decisions.

Water Quality, Second Edition is a valuable reference for environmental engineers, scientists, civil engineers, students of these disciplines, and government and regulatory personnel.

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Originally, all pollution was of nonpoint (diffuse) nature. Read the first page

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1.0 out of 5 stars Too many errors, Dec 5 2011

By Stephanie A. Lynn - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Water Quality: Diffuse Pollution and Watershed Management (Hardcover)

This book was littered with too many errors! A few errors here and there are sometimes going to happen, but this book is unacceptable for the intended audience (engineers, hydrologists, etc.)! The grammatical errors did not bother me as much as the technical errors. A number of equations were wrong, as were a bunch of the values in the example problems. It was very difficult to learn or understand the material when I had no idea where certain numbers came from. Was it a typo or was the value the correct value? With the number of errors I found, and I am not a non-point pollution expert, how do I have faith that what the rest of the author tells me is accurate?

For a profession in which accuracy is very important, this book fails and the author/editors should be embarrassed. I will not be using this as a reference.

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3.0 out of 5 stars quite ok, Sep 30 2009

By Amel "HappyStudent" - Published on Amazon.com

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This review is from: Water Quality: Diffuse Pollution and Watershed Management (Hardcover)

there are a lot of typo and unit errors (this can be misleading to students). i got no choice , to buy this book as my text book. this book is good but not so many examples of problems to further understand it. explanation is also not well elaborated on some topics. (students need more explanation to understand). no exercise included to try. the contents are good though. This book is too expensive for a lot of errors and no examples/exercise. a moderate rating!

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Dealing With NPS Pollution, Mar 26 2007

By mbgoss - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Water Quality: Prevention, Identification, and Management of Diffuse Pollution (Hardcover)

This is a great book for dealing with Non-Point Source (NPS) pollution. It covers a fairly comprehensive list of topics, while not going into great depth on most. It gives you enough information to get a good start on just about ANY analysis related to NPS pollution and a solid beginning to expand your research from if more in-depth analysis is required. In my opinion, this is a great reference for anyone working in water quality, and a "must-have" for working with NPS.

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