Ecological Water Quality: Water Treatment And Reuse

Cover......Page 1 Ecological Water Quality - Water Treatment and Reuse......Page 2 ©......Page 3 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 9 Section 1 Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystems......Page 13 1 Evaluation of Ecological Quality Status with the Trophic Index (TRIX) Values in the Coastal Waters of the Gulfs of Erdek and Bandirma in the Marmara Sea......Page 15 2 Ecological Water Quality and Management at a River Basin Level: A Case Study from River Basin Kosynthos in June 2011......Page 35 3 An Ecotoxicological Approach to Evaluate the Environmental Quality of Inland Waters......Page 57 4 Emerging (Bio)Sensing Technology for Assessing and Monitoring Freshwater Contamination - Methods and Applications......Page 77 5 Macroinvertebrates as Indicators of Water Quality in Running Waters: 10 years of Research in Rivers with Different Degrees of Anthropogenic Impacts......Page 107 6 Posidonia oceanica and Zostera marina as Potential Biomarkers of Heavy Metal Contamination in Coastal Systems......Page 135 7 Biofilms Impact on Drinking Water Quality......Page 153 8 Water Quality After Application of Pig Slurry......Page 173 9 Diatoms as Indicators of Water Quality and Ecological Status: Sampling, Analysis and Some Ecological Remarks......Page 195 10 Interplay of Physical, Chemical and Biological Components in Estuarine Ecosystem with Special Reference to Sundarbans, India......Page 217 Section 2 Water Treatment Technologies and Water Reuse......Page 251 11 Water Reuse and Sustainability......Page 253 12 In situ Remediation Technologies Associated with Sanitation Improvement: An Opportunity for Water Quality Recovering in Developing Countries......Page 267 13 Evaluation of the Removal of Chlorine, THM and Natural Organic Matter from Drinking Water Using Microfiltration Membranes and Activated Carbon in a Gravitational System......Page 285 14 Application of Hybrid Process of Coagulation/ Flocculation and Membrane Filtration to Water Treatment......Page 299 15 Elimination of Phenols on a Porous Material......Page 323 16 Water Quality Improvement Through an Integrated Approach to Point and Non-Point Sources Pollution and Management of River Floodplain Wetlands......Page 337 17 Water Quality in the Agronomic Context: Flood Irrigation Impacts on Summer In-Stream Temperature Extremes in the Interior Pacific Northwest (USA)......Page 355 18 Effects of Discharge Characteristics on Aqueous Pollutant Concentration at Jebel Ali Harbor, Dubai-UAE......Page 371 19 The Effect of Wastes Discharge on the Quality of Samaru Stream, Zaria, Nigeria......Page 389 20 Water Quality in Hydroelectric Sites......Page 403 21 Removal Capability of Carbon-Soil-Aquifer Filtering System in Water Microbiological Pollutants......Page 421 22 Impact of Agricultural Contaminants in Surface Water Quality: A Case Study from SW China......Page 437 23 Fluxes in Suspended Sediment Concentration and Total Dissolved Solids Upstream of the Galma Dam, Zaria, Nigeria......Page 451 24 An Overview of the Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Freshwater System......Page 467 25 Rainwater Harvesting Systems in Australia......Page 483 This book attempts to cover various issues of water quality in the fields of Hydroecology and Hydrobiology and present various Water Treatment Technologies. Sustainable choices of water use that prevent water quality problems aiming at the protection of available water resources and the enhancement of the aquatic ecosystems should be our main target