Urban Water Resources
Monzur Alam Imteaz
Urban Water Resources
Monzur Alam Imteaz
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Description
The book provides an overview of the urban water components, design concepts and steps of different urban water components, water sustainability and how it can be achieved through an integrated urban water management concept, modern modelling tools for the assessments of different components of urban water system.
"Imteaz (Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Melbourne) provides a concise text that combines hydrology with applications such as design for drainage, drinking water supply, and wastewater treatment systems. While the subject matter treatment is mostly standard, it is especially well done here and supported by numerous mathematical examples. The design of water and wastewater treatment plants falls somewhat outside the scope of this book, yet it is covered, again in a concise rather than comprehensive way. In particular, little is said here about water quality. This book is about water quantity—getting water, storing it, moving it, and removing it. For these purposes, it provides a nice summary. The earlier chapters are relatively more comprehensive: they cover hydrology, probabilistic rainfall descriptions, flood prediction, and open channel flow. The author's intent is to integrate considerations of sustainability, and this purpose is well served in opening chapters addressing climate change, droughts, and rainfall variability. The final chapters discuss water conservation and recycling, and feature brief descriptions of “green infrastructure” approaches. Overall, this book is appropriate as an introductory text for undergraduates or for working professionals who want to learn some of the basics of this field."
— D. A. Vaccari, Stevens Institute of Technology, CHOICE, June 2020 Vol. 57 No. 10
Monzur Imteaz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Construction Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He has obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 from Saitama University, Japan. Later he completed his post-doctoral research at University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Before joining at Swinburne he was been involved with several Australian state and local government authorities. He has been actively involved with various researches on sustainability, water resources and environmental pollutions.