TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pechan,Paul
AU  - de Vries,Gert E.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Living with Water: Targeting Quality in a Dynamic World 
SN  - 9781461437529
AV  - TP248.65.F66 
U1  - 641.3 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - Water quality
KW  - Water pollution
KW  - Food
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - Environmental health
KW  - Food Science
KW  - Water Quality/Water Pollution
KW  - Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution
KW  - Environmental Health
N1  - 1. Living with Water -- 2. Mountain Waters as Witnesses of Global Pollution -- 3. Wastewaters are not Wastes -- 4. Pollutants in Water: The Case of Pharmaceuticals -- 5. The Oceans and Their Challenge to Conserve Marine Biodiversity
N2  - The factors affecting water quality are many: the increasing buying power and health concerns of the world population  contribute to the creation of new products, whose production and disposal lead to the release of chemicals harmful to the environment;  the ever-growing world population requires a  steady food supply, which increases the pressure to use even more fertilizers and agrochemicals to support crops and control various pests; and due to climate change, water quality is rapidly changing (e.g., oceans are becoming increasingly warmer and acidic).   Using specific examples, Living With Water will address the many challenges of providing clean water to the growing world population. It will also discuss the new technologies that are being developed, for example, to treat and reuse waste waters, and monitoring approaches that help scientists and stakeholders to assess water quality risks. Such risk assessments are urgently needed to help draft legislations and allow enforcement to ensure accessibility to quality water for all.   The structure of the book will be the following: each chapter will provide information about a specific water environment  (headwaters, rivers, oceans) and the challenges it faces. This will be followed by discussion of the pollution effects and actions taken to redress the situation. Finally, future trends will be  discussed
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3752-9
ER  -