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Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World´s Most Vital Resource
David Sedlak
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Description for Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World´s Most Vital Resource
Paperback. The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented in the near future Num Pages: 352 pages, 24 b/w illus. BIC Classification: KCN; RNFD; TQSW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 440.
The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented
Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains in this ... Read more
The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented
Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains in this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
447g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300212679
SKU
V9780300212679
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Ref
99-17
About David Sedlak
David Sedlak is the Malozemoff Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; codirector of the Berkeley Water Center; and deputy director of the National Science Foundation’s engineering research center for Reinventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt). He is the 2014 recipient of the National Water Research Institute Clarke Prize.
Reviews for Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World´s Most Vital Resource
“Sedlak . . . has contributed a gem to the growing shelf of books on the emerging crisis surrounding water. . . . An erudite romp through two millennia of water and sanitation practice and technology.”—Margaret Catley-Carlson, Nature Recipient of the National Water Research Institute’s Clarke Prize in 2014 Winner of the 2014 American Publishers Awards for Professional ... Read more