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"Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right" --Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General
Edited by two world-renowned scientists in the field, The Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology provides a definitive and comprehensive coverage of water and wastewater microbiology. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book gives a global perspective on the important issues faced in the provision of safe drinking water, the problems of dealing with aquatic pollution and the processes involved in wastewater management.
Starting with an introductory chapter of basic microbiological principles, The Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology develops these principles further, ensuring that this is the essential text for process engineers with little microbiological experience and specialist microbiologists alike.
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Reader in Public Health Engineering
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This handbook is a valuable addition to the general area of ecological and applied microbiology, and editors Mara and Horan have done an excellent job in putting together this volume with contributions from leading researchers in this field. It features areas of microbiology that are essential to understanding the diseases caused by polluted water and wastewater. The text is divided into four parts, and the idea of including basic microbiology (part 1) is very appropriate. Laboratory aspects described in chapters 8 and 9 could have been expanded further so that a nonlaboratory person can understand the various tests used in this field of microbiology. Part 2 discusses diseases caused by water and wastewater, and chapters on wastewater recycling for agricultural purposes contain very valuable information. Most of the chapters in part 3 feature information that will be highly important to public health officials in both developing and developed countries. This useful book on an important and expanding area of microbiology offers sufficient detail and scope to provide core readings for advanced studies in this topic. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals. A. M. Dhople Florida Institute of Technology
Table of Contents
| Basic Microbiology |
| 1 Microbial Nutrition and Basic MetabolismE C S Chan |
| Introduction to Microbes of Sanitary Importance |
| 2 VirusesJohn Heritage |
| 3 BacteriaEd Schroeder |
| 4 ProtozoaNigel Horan |
| 5 Filamentous Fungi In Water SystemsGraham Kinsey and Joan Kelley |
| 6 Microbial Flora of the GutB S Drasar |
| 7 Faecal Indicator OrganismsD D Mara |
| 8 Detection, Enumeration and Identification of Environmental Microorganisms of Public Health SignificanceHoward Kator and Martha Rhodes |
| 9 Fundamentals of Biological BehaviourM C Wentzel and G A Ekama and R E Loewenthal |
| Water and Excreta Related Diseases |
| 10 Microorganisms and DiseaseR Morris |
| 11 Unitary Environmental Classification of Water and Excreta Related Communicable DiseasesD D Mara and R G A Feacham |
| 12 Emerging Waterborne PathogensDebra E Huffman and Walter Quintero-Betancourt and Joan Rose |
| 13 Health Effects of Water Consumption and Water QualityPierre Payment |
| 14 Drinking Standards fro the Developing WorldJ Bartram and Guy Howard and Peter Murchie |
| 15 Control of Pathogenic Microorganisms in Wastewater Recycling and Refuse in AgricultureHillel Shuval and Badri Fattal |
| 16 Developing Risk Assessments of Waterborne Microbial ContaminationsPaul Gale |
| 17 Effluent Discharge StandardsDavid W M Johnstone |
| 18 Health Constraints on the Agricultural Recycling of Wastewater SludgesA Godfrey |
| Microbiology of Wastewater Treatment |
| Introduction to Microbiological Wastewater Treatment |
| 19 Fixed Film ProcessesPaul Lessard |
| 20 Suspended Growth ProcessesNigel Horan |
| 21 Low-Cost Treatment SystemsD D Mara |
| 22 Anaerobic Treatment ProcessesKen Anderson |
| 23 The Nitrogen Cycle and It's Application in Wastewater TreatmentC H Wong and G W Barton and J P Barford |
| 24 The Microbiology of Phosphorus Removal in Activated SludgeT E Cloete and M M Ehlers and J van Heerden and B Atkinson |
| 25 Sulphate Reducing BacteriaOliver J Hao |
| 26 Protozoa as Indicators of Wastewater Treatment EfficiencyPaolo Madoni |
| 27 Biofilm Formation and it's Role in Fixed Film ProcessesLuis F Melo |
| Behaviour of Pathogens in Wastewater Treatment Processes |
| 28 Viruses in FaecesJohn Oragui |
| 29 Bacterial Pathogen Removal from Wastewater Treatment PlantsTom Curtis |
| Problems in wastewater treatment processes |
| 30 Activated Sludge Bulking and Foaming: Microbes and MythsR J Foot and M S Robinson |
| 31 Odour GenerationArthur Boon |
| 32 Recalcitrant Organic CompoundsJ S Knapp and K C A Bromley-Challenor |
| 33 The Problems of Heavy Metals in Wastewater Treatment ProcessesJ Binkley and J A Simpson |
| Drinking Water Microbiology |
| 34 Stored Water (Rainjars and Raintanks)John Pinfold |
| 35 Coagulation and FiltrationCaroline S Fitzpartick and John Gregory |
| 36 Biofilms in Water Distribution SystemsCharmain J Kerr and Keith S Osborn and Alex H Rickard and Geoff D Robson and Pauline S Handley |
| 37 Taste and Odour Problems in Potable WaterEsther Ortenberg and Benjamin Telsch |
| 38 Giardia and CryptosporidiumH V Smith and A M Grimason |
| 39 Microbial Response to DisinfectantsJ Morato and J Mir and F Codony and J Mas and F Ribas |
