Water and water pollution handbook / editor, Craig W. Allin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allin, Craig W. (Craig Willard)

Series:

Encyclopedia of environmental issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water--Analysis--Encyclopedias.

Water.

Water--Pollution--Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 145 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, MA : Salem Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discusses the types and causes of water pollution, the negative health impacts on plant and animal life, and the policies designed to help protect the world's water supplies.

Contents:

""Table of Contents""; ""Contributors ""; ""Acid mine drainage 1""; ""Amoco Cadiz oil spill 1""; ""Aqueducts 2""; ""Aquifers 4""; ""Argo Merchant oil spill 5""; ""Ashio, Japan, copper mine 6""; ""Best available technologies 7""; ""Black Sea 8""; ""BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill 9""; ""Braer oil spill 12""; ""Brent Spar occupation 13""; ""Chesapeake Bay 14""; ""Chlorination 15""; ""Clean Water Act and amendments 16""; ""Coastal Zone Management Act 18""; ""Colorado River 18""; ""Continental shelves 20""; ""Cultural eutrophication 22""; ""Cuyahoga River fires 22""; ""Dams and reservoirs 23""

""Danube River 27""""Desalination 28""; ""Dredging 29""; ""Drinking water 30""; ""Environment Canada 31""; ""Environmental Protection Agency 32""; ""Eutrophication 35""; ""Experimental Lakes Area 36""; ""Externalities 38""; ""Exxon Valdez oil spill 38""; ""Flood Control Act 40""; ""Floodplains 41""; ""Floods 43""; ""Fluoridation 45""; ""Ganges River 47""; ""Great Lakes International Joint Commission 48""; ""Groundwater pollution 49""; ""Gulf War oil burning 50""; ""Irrigation 52""; ""Kesterson Reservoir 54""; ""Klamath River 55""; ""Lake Baikal 56""; ""Lake Erie 58""; ""Leachates 59""

""London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution 61""""Los Angeles Aqueduct 62""; ""Mediterranean Blue Plan 64""; ""Mississippi River 65""; ""Mono Lake 68""; ""Monongahela River tank collapse 69""; ""Nile River 71""; ""North American Free Trade Agreement 72""; ""Ocean currents 74""; ""Ocean dumping 76""; ""Ocean pollution 78""; ""Oil spills 81""; ""Pacific Islands 84""; ""PEMEX oil well leak 86""; ""Polluter pays principle 87""; ""Rain gardens 88""; ""Rainwater harvesting 89""; ""Rhine River 91""; ""Riparian rights 91""; ""Rocky Flats, Colorado, nuclear plant releases 92""

""Runoff, agricultural 94""""Runoff, urban 95""; ""Sacramento River pesticide spill 97""; ""Safe Drinking Water Act 98""; ""Santa Barbara oil spill 99""; ""Sea Empress oil spill 100""; ""Sea-level changes 101""; ""Seabed disposal 103""; ""Sedimentation 104""; ""Sludge treatment and disposal 105""; ""Soil salinization 106""; ""Stormwater management 107""; ""Teton Dam collapse 109""; ""Tobago oil spill 110""; ""Torrey Canyon oil spill 111""; ""United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 112""; ""U.S. Geological Survey 113""; ""Wastewater management 114""; ""Water conservation 116""

""Water pollution 118""""Water-pollution policy 121""; ""Water quality 123""; ""Water rights 125""; ""Water-saving toilets 127""; ""Water treatment 127""; ""Water use 129""; ""Watershed management 131""; ""Wells 133""; ""Wolman, Abel 134""; ""Zebra mussels 135""; ""Bibliography 137""; ""CATEGORY INDEX""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

GVRL

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613279248

9781283279246

128327924X

9781587659249

1587659247

OCLC:

767828316