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xxiv Preface
Course Suggestions

The book is comprehensive and covers all aspects of water supply, water sources, water
distribution, sanitary sewerage, and urban stormwater drainage. This comprehensive cov-
erage gives faculty the flexibility of choosing the material they find fit for their courses and
this wide coverage is helpful to engineers in their everyday practice.
Courses where this book may be used include
1. water and wastewater engineering;
2. sanitary engineering;
3. water supply and sewerage;
4. civil and sanitary engineering design;
5. environmental engineering design;
6. water supply, transmission, and distribution system;
7. design of sewage and stormwater collection systems; and
8. water supply and wastewater collection systems.

Key Features of This Book
Several items unique to this textbook include
• Solved Problems—A reliable problem-solving experience for students is carried
throughout the text and demonstrated in every example problem to reinforce the
best practices.
• Photos and Illustrations—Photos are used throughout the text to clarify infrastruc-
ture systems and show examples of built and constructed water supply and waste-
water collection features.
• Current Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Issues—Current infrastructure
and global issues are addressed in the text. Examples of such issues include
(a) water quality in distribution system; (b) groundwater under the direct influence
of surface water; (c) dual water systems; (d) cross-connection control and back-
flow prevention; (e) computer-aided design; (f) design nomograms for fast water
infrastructure analysis; (g) trenchless technology and rehabilitation of sewers;
(h) computer-aided water distribution system modeling and analysis; (i) computer-
aided gravity sewer system modeling and design; (j) modern alternative waste-
water collection systems, including low-pressure sewer system design; and
(k) urban runoff and overflow management
• Equations and Example Problems with both U.S. Customary and SI Units—
The text has a multitude of example problems. Such equations and problems incor-
porate both SI and the more customary English (or U.S.) unit systems. We feel that
many introductory texts fall short in both these areas by not providing students
with equations and examples that help explain difficult technical concepts and by
only focusing on one system of units.
• Applied Hydraulics and Hydrology—Hydraulics and hydrology concepts are crit-
ical for the civil and environmental engineering professional, and thus the reader.
Applied hydraulics topics such as pumps, weirs, pressurized pipe flow, gravity flow,
and head losses are reviewed in this book. Applied hydrology topics such as water
cycle, precipitation, runoff, groundwater, surface water, evaporation, transpiration,