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Preface
undergraduate engineering education, has reviewed
Key Features of This Book
this chapter and provided the illustrative case studies
Several items unique to this textbook include
described in Chapter 6, Water Distribution Systems:
1. Solved problems. A reliable problem-solving expe-
Components, Design, and Operation, and Chapter
rience for students is carried out throughout the text
22, Residues Management, Safety, and Emergency
and demonstrated in every example problem to rein-
Response. Other water engineering texts do not
address these important topics.
force best practices.
2. Photos and illustrations. Photos and illustrations
are used throughout the text to clarify water engi-
neering infrastructure systems and show examples
The following resources are available to instructors on the
of built and constructed water supply, transmission,
book website at:
treatment, storage and distribution facilities. Instructor Resources
3. Current water treatment and infrastructure 1. Solutions manual. Complete solutions for every
issues. Current infrastructure and global issues are homework problem and answers to all discussion
addressed in the text. Examples of such issues questions in the text will be available to instructors.
include (a) established water treatment technologies; 2. Image gallery. Images from the text in electronic
(b) conventional and new pathogenic microorgan- format, for preparation of lecture PowerPoint slides.
isms and impurities; (c) Cryptosporidium, volatile
3. Access to student resources. Instructors will also
organic compounds, heavy metals, and disinfection
have access to all the student resources.
by-products control; (d) flotation, membrane filtra-
tion, and UV; (e) groundwater under the direct influ- The instructor resources are password protected, and will
ence of surface water; (f) dual water systems; (g) be made available to instructors who have adopted the text
cross-connections control and backflow prevention; for their course. Visit the instructor section of the website to
(h) design nomograms for fast water infrastructure register for a password.
analysis; (i) computer-aided water distribution sys-
tem modeling and analysis; (j) water safety and emer-
Student Resources
gency response.
4. Engineering equations and example problems The following resources are available to students on the book
with both US and SI Units for training engineers to website at:
work globally. The text has a multitude of examples 1. Data sets. Data sets for all examples and homework
and problems. Such problems incorporate both SI and exercises in the text will be provided, so that students
the more customary US unit systems. We feel that may perform what-if scenarios, and to avoid errors
most other texts fall short in both these areas by not due to data entry during problem solving.
providing students with examples that help explain
2. Access to design software. Included with the text, so
difficult technical concepts and by only focusing on
students may download the software from an online
one system of units.
source.
5. Applied hydraulics. Hydraulics concepts are critical
for the civil, environmental and water resources engi-
neering professionals, and thus the readers. Applied Software
hydraulics topics such as pumps, weirs, pressurized Included with this text is access to the software Haestad
pipe flow, gravity flow, head losses are reviewed Methods Water Solutions by Bentley. Software exhibited in
in this book for practical design of water-handling the text, include WaterGEMS that is used to illustrate the
facilities. application of various available software programs in helping
6. Prevention through design, residuals manage- civil and environmental engineers design and analyze water
ment, and water system safety. Chapter 23 is ded- distribution systems. It is also used by water utility managers
icated to prevention through design (PtD), as it is as a tool for the efficient operation of distribution systems.
important for readers to learn about this new strat- See Chapter 7, Water Distribution Systems: Modeling and
egy. NIOSH is promoting the inclusion of PtD in Computer Applications.