Water Infrastructure

Author : H. Ratnaweera,O.A. Pivovarov
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781643680255

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Physical and Cyber Safety in Critical Water Infrastructure by H. Ratnaweera,O.A. Pivovarov Pdf

Water supply and water management services are among the most critical infrastructures in society, providing safe and affordable drinking water, managing wastewater to avoid floods and environmental pollution, and enabling the reuse and replenishment of scarce water resources. With water and wastewater facilities and infrastructure intrinsic to our towns and cities, we must not underestimate the potentially catastrophic results of water supply contamination or disruption to the systems that regulate the water we rely on for essential agricultural, environmental, and municipal needs. This book presents 12 papers selected from those delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Physical and Cyber Safety in Critical Water Infrastructure, held in Oslo, Norway, from 8-11 October 2018. The conference brought together resource persons and decision makers from 12 NATO countries and 6 partner countries to share their experiences with the objective of formulating best practice based on recommendations and conclusions, to increase awareness of the risks that threaten current and future water utilities and services, to learn how to improve surveillance and preparedness, and to deal with a crisis should all else fail. Addressing the urgent need to focus on physical and cyber safety in one of the most critical infrastructures in our society, the book will be of interest to all those working in the field of water supply and waste water management.

Author : Xiaodi Hao,Vladimir Novotny,Valerie Nelson
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781843393283

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Water Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities by Xiaodi Hao,Vladimir Novotny,Valerie Nelson Pdf

A new model for water management is emerging worldwide in response to water shortages, polluted waterways, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. Cities and towns are questioning the ecological and financial sustainability of big-pipe water, stormwater, and sewer systems and are searching for “lighter footprint” more sustainable solutions. Pilot projects are being built that use, treat, store, and reuse water locally and that build distributed designs into restorative hydrology. This book has been developed from the conference on Sustainable Water Infrastructure for Villages and Cities of the Future (SWIF2009) held in November 2009 in Beijing (China) that brought together an international gathering of experts in urban water and drainage infrastructure, landscape architecture, economics, environmental law, citizen participation, utility management, green building, and science and technology development. Water Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities China and the World reveals how imaginative concepts are being developed and implemented to ensure that cities, towns, and villages and their water resources can become ecologically sustainable and provide clean water. With both urban and rural waters as a focal point, the links between water quality and hydrology, landscape, and the broader concepts of green cities/villages and smart development are explored. The book focuses on decentralized concepts of potable water, stormwater, and wastewater management that would provide clean water. It results in water management systems that would be resilient to extreme events such as excessive flows due to extreme meteorological events, severe droughts, and deteriorated water and urban ecosystem quality. A particular emphasis is placed on learning lessons from the many innovative projects being designed in China and other initiatives around the world. The principal audience for the book is university faculty and students, scientists in research institutes, water professionals, governmental organizations, NGOs, urban landscape architects and planners. Visit the IWA WaterWiki to read and share material related to this title: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/WaterInfrastructureforSustainableCommunities Edited by Professor Xiaodi Hao, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, P. R. of China, Professor Vladimir Novotny, Northeastern University, Boston, USA and Dr Valerie Nelson, Coalition for Alternative Wastewater Treatment, MA, USA

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264023994

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Infrastructure to 2030 Telecom, Land Transport, Water and Electricity by OECD Pdf

This long-term examination of future infrastructure needs examines what will be required, how it will be financed, and how such factors as climate change, globalisation, and urbanisation will affect these needs.

Author : Advancing Renewable Energy Technologies Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523144645

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Renewable Energy Technologies and Water Infrastructure by Advancing Renewable Energy Technologies Committee Pdf

Renewable Energy Technologies and Water Infrastructureprovides an in-depth look at policy, regulation, and the development and application of renewable energy technologies to existing water infrastructure.

Author : Carl Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226022512

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City Water, City Life by Carl Smith Pdf

A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN : IND:30000159714595

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Our Nation's Water Infrastructure by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife Pdf

Author : Anna Doro-on
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781439853412

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Risk Assessment for Water Infrastructure Safety and Security by Anna Doro-on Pdf

One of the seventeen critical infrastructures vital to the security of the United States, the water supply system remains largely unprotected from the threat of terrorism, including possible revenge by Al Qaeda over the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Recognizing and identifying prospective events of terrorism against the water infrastructure is critical to the protection of the nation, as the consequences triggered by a terrorist attack on the water supply would be devastating. Risk Assessment for Water Infrastructure: Safety and Security provides a unique quantitative risk assessment methodology for protection and security against terrorist contamination, vandalism, attacks against dams, and other threats to water supply systems. Focusing on the human safety, environmental, and economic consequences triggered by potential terrorist attacks and other threats, the book presents: The development of an integrated approach of risk assessment based upon the cumulative prospect theory The qualitative/quantitative processes and models for security and safe facility operations as required by EPA, DHS, and other governmental and regulatory agencies The application of an integrated model to the risk assessment of surface water, dams, wells, wastewater treatment facilities, reservoirs, and aqueducts of large urban regions The development of intelligence analysis incorporating risk assessment for terrorism prevention Finally, the book presents the legal and regulatory requirements and policy related to the protection and security of water infrastructure from terrorism and natural hazards to both human health and the environment. By analyzing potential terrorist risks against the water supply, strategic improvements in U.S. water infrastructure security may be achieved, including changes in policy, incorporation of intrusion detection technology, increased surveillance, and increased intelligence. More information can be found on the author's website.

Author : Faisal Hossain
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030264321

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Resilience of Large Water Management Infrastructure by Faisal Hossain Pdf

Infrastructure that manages our water resources (such as, dams and reservoirs, irrigation systems, channels, navigation waterways, water and wastewater treatment facilities, storm drainage systems, urban water distribution and sanitation systems), are critical to all sectors of an economy. Realizing the importance of water infrastructures, efforts have already begun on understanding the sustainability and resilience of such systems under changing conditions expected in the future. The goal of this collected work is to raise awareness among civil engineers of the various implications of landscape change and non-climate drivers on the resilience of water management infrastructure. It identifies the knowledge gaps and then provides effective and complementary approaches to assimilate knowledge discovery on local (mesoscale)-to-regional landscape drivers to improve practices on design, operations and preservation of large water infrastructure systems.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCSD:31822037808185

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Hearing to Review Rural Water Infrastructure by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Dams
ISBN : 9782831714646

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Regional Dialogue on Large Water Infrastructure in West Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264059221

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OECD Studies on Water Private Sector Participation in Water Infrastructure OECD Checklist for Public Action by OECD Pdf

Provides a coherent catalogue of policy directions, including appropriate allocation of roles, risks and responsibilities, framework conditions and contractual arrangements necessary to make the best of private sector participation in water infrastructure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015064933263

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Water Infrastructure at a Turning Point by Anonim Pdf

The United States can boast the finest water and wastewater systems in the world, but it cannot sustain this extensive infrastructure unless steps are taken to counter its natural wear-down due to age. The resulting task is to initiate and manage a modern, methodical, and sustainable asset renewal process, called asset management. This report fully explores the processes involved in asset management: Define expectations and assess the condition, Estimate the remaining useful life, Manage the wear-out process, and continually Improve the plan. Written for: water utility managers, governing boards , community stakeholders, and others interested in the subject. The United States can boast the finest water and wastewater systems in the world, but it cannot sustain this extensive infrastructure unless steps are taken to counter its natural wear-down due to age. The resulting task is to initiate and manage a modern, methodical, and sustainable asset renewal process, called asset management. This report fully explores the processes involved in asset management: Define expectations and assess the condition, Estimate the remaining useful life, Manage the wear-out process, and continually Improve the plan. Written for: water utility managers, governing boards , community stakeholders, and others interested in the subject.

Author : Claudia Copeland
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437919721

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Water Infrastructure Needs and Investment by Claudia Copeland Pdf

Contents: (1) Intro.; (2) Background: History of Fed. Involvement; Wastewater; Drinking Water; USDA Assistance Programs; (3) Water Infrastructure Debate: Invest. Needs; EPA Needs Surveys; Drinking Water and Wastewater Needs; Future Investment; Gap Analysis Report; (4) Issues: (a) Priorities: What are the Problems to be Solved?: Infrastructure Replace.; Security; Funding Other Priorities; (b) Fed. Role; (c) Delivering Fed. Support: Admin. Entity; Type of Assistance Provided: Grants and Loans; Fed. Funds for Private Infrastructure Systems; Fed. Tax Issues; Fed. Cross-Cutting Requirements; Set-Asides; Allotment of Funds and Congress. Directed Project Grants; (d) Res. on New Technol.; (5) Congress. and Admin. Activity, 107th-110th Congress. Tables.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Federal aid to water quality management
ISBN : PURD:32754082716469

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Review of Innovative Financing Approaches for Community Water Infrastructure Projects by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Pdf

Author : Anna Doro-on
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781439853429

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Risk Assessment for Water Infrastructure Safety and Security by Anna Doro-on Pdf

One of the seventeen critical infrastructures vital to the security of the United States, the water supply system remains largely unprotected from the threat of terrorism, including possible revenge by Al Qaeda over the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Recognizing and identifying prospective events of terrorism against the water infrastructure is critic