Fully addresses all facets of environmental technology related to water supply, waste management, and pollution control—preparing students to enter any organisation involved with environmental technology
Teaches through real-world applications—linking concepts to real-world issues that will be relevant to students
NEW! Discusses environmental sustainability, integrated water management, low impact development, and green building design throughout the book—ensuring that students understand the field's most significant trends and opportunities
NEW! Offers expanded coverage of advanced wastewater treatment and recycling, especially membrane filtration technology—enabling students to participate in advanced wastewater treatment projects
NEW! Covers many significant new topics and trends, including dual water systems, new pipeline materials, environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), constructed wetlands, single stream municipal solid waste recycling, and plasma gasification of solid and hazardous waste—preparing students to participate in cutting-edge projects for many years to come
NEW! Reflects updated water and air quality standards and regulations, including the EPA's determination that CO2 is an air pollutant that can harm public health and welfare by causing global warming and climate change—preparing students to help organisations respond to the latest government regulations
NEW! Contains expanded discussions of environmental education, certification, and employment—giving students up-to-date information and guidance for finding jobs in the field
NEW! Introduces LEED green building project certification—showing students how to earn the green building industry's most valuable credentials

Simple and clear, with plenty of numerical examples and basic primers for less prepared students:

NEW! Contains hundreds of up-to-date, application-focused practice and review questions—giving students all the quantitative problem-solving practice they need to succeed
Reviews all the basic math students need to perform this book's calculations—ensuring that students can accurately perform environmental computations, even if they have limited backgrounds in mathematics
Contains basic primers on biology, chemistry, geology, hydrology, and hydraulics—getting students up-to-speed on the essentials of each key science related to environmental technology
Uses both US customary and SI metric units throughout the text and in example problems, and includes a discussion of unit measurements and unit conversions—preparing students to work in global environments that may use metric or US units, or both

Hundreds of diagrams and photos, and extensive pedagogical resources for faster, more intuitive learning:

Line drawings, diagrams, and two-tone photos throughout—making virtually all key topics easier to understand
Clear chapter synopses—emphasising key points, and promoting more efficient review
NEW! Provides expanded glossary and acronyms lists—giving students a single source for definitions and explanations of key environmental technology terms and acronyms
NEW! Expanded online Instructor’s Resources materials, including worked solutions to all practice problems, text-page references for answers to review questions, supplemental problems, 100 + multiple-choice test Q&As,

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