Water supply and pollution control / Warren Viessman, Jr. [and three others].

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Water resources planning and management -- The hydrologic cycle and natural water sources -- The water budget -- Groundwater -- Surface water -- Alternative sources of water supply -- Water use trends and forecasting -- Conveying and distributing water -- Hydraulics -- Water distribution systems -- Hydraulic considerations -- Pressure considerations -- Pumping -- Wastewater collection and stormwater engineering -- Design of sanitary sewers -- Stormwater management -- Water quality -- Microbiological quality -- Chemical quality of drinking water -- Quality criteria for surface waters -- Selected pollution parameters -- Systems for treating wastewater and water -- Overview -- Wastewater treatment systems -- Water treatment systems -- Physical treatment processes -- Flow-measuring devices -- Screening devices -- Mixing and flocculation -- Sedimentation -- Filtration -- Chemical treatment processes -- Chemical considerations. Reactions in continuous-flow systems -- real and ideal reactors -- Coagulation -- Water softening -- Iron and manganese removal -- Disinfection and by-product formation -- Disinfection of potable water -- Disinfection of wastewater -- Taste and odor -- Fluoridation -- Corrosion and corrosion control -- Membrane treatment processes -- Volatile organic chemical removal -- Synthetic organic chemical removal -- Reduction of dissolved salts -- Biological treatment processes -- Biological considerations -- Characteristics of wastewater -- Trickling (Biological) filters -- Activated sludge -- Odor control -- Individual on-site wastewater disposal -- Marine wastewater disposal -- Processing of sludges -- Sources, characteristics, and quantities of waste sludges -- Arrangement of unit processes in sludge disposal -- Gravity thickening -- Gravity belt thickening -- Flotation thickening -- Biological sludge digestion -- Pressure filtration -- Centrifugation. Cycling of waste solids in treatment plants -- Final disposal or use -- Advanced wastewater treatment processes and water reuse -- Introduction -- Limitations of secondary treatment -- Selection of advanced wastewater treatment processes -- Suspended-solids removal -- Carbon adsorption -- Phosphorus removal -- Nitrogen removal -- Water resuse -- Problems -- Appendix.

The 8th edition has been modernized and its coverage of topics expanded to meet the contemporary needs of students and practitioners concerned with issues of water supply and pollution control.