Wastewater Reuse and Watershed Management: Engineering Implications for Agriculture, Industry, and the Environment - Paperback

by Ajai Singh (Editor)

Water is a finite resource, and the demand for clean water is constantly growing. Clean freshwater is needed to meet irrigation demands for agriculture, for consumption, and for industrial uses. The world produces billions of tons of wastewater every year. This volume looks at a multitude of ways to capture, treat, and reuse wastewater and how to effectively manage watersheds. It presents a selection of new technologies and methods to recycle, reclaim, and reuse water for agricultural, industrial, and environmental purposes.

The editor states that more than 75-80% of the wastewater we produce goes back to nature without being properly treated, leading to pollution and all sorts of negative health and productivity consequences. Topics cover a wide selection of research, including molluscs as a tool for river health assessment, flood risk modeling, biological removal of toxins from groundwater, saline water intrusion into coastal areas, urban drainage simulations, rainwater harvesting, irrigation topics, and more.

Key features:
- explores the existing methodologies in the field of reuse of wastewater
- looks at different approaches in integrated water resources management
- examines the issues of groundwater management and development
- discusses saline water intrusion in coastal areas
- presents various watershed management approaches
- includes case studies and analyses of various water management efforts

Author Biography

Ajai Singh, PhD, FIE, is an Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Water Engineering and Management at the Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India. He has more then 18 years of experience in teaching, research, and extension work. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) and a life member of various societies. He has more than 30 research papers published in national and international journals of repute. Dr. Singh has authored one textbook, Introduction to Drip Irrigation Systems, which has proved to be very useful for graduate and postgraduate students of agricultural/civil engineering. He has been awarded the Distinguished Services Certificate (2012) by the Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers, New Delhi. He teaches subjects such as finite element methods, groundwater hydrology, micro irrigation, watershed management, and numerical methods.