National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Lyly Luhachack-
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Dec-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309725316)
Earth systems science aims to discover and integrate knowledge on the structure, nature, and scales of interactions among natural (e.g., physical, chemical, and biological) and social (e.g., cultural, socioeconomic, and geopolitical) processes. Clima...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Committee on Modernizing Probable Maximum Precipitat
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309715133)
For more than 75 years, high-hazard structures in the U.S., including dams and nuclear power plants, have been engineered to withstand floods resulting from the most unlikely but possible precipitation, termed Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP). Fa...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-May-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309693462)
Over the past century, the Everglades has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management infrastructure intended to improve flood management, urban water supply, and agricultural production. Less than half of the original Everglades remai...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Water Science and Technology Board, Committ
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Apr-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309695541)
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a rapid expansion of wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance systems to monitor and anticipate disease trends in communities.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the National Wastewater...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, National Academy of Engineering, Cultural, Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility in Engineering Program, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309689793)
Since its establishment in 1970, the mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment. EPA develops regulations, ensures compliance, and issues policies, in coordination with state, tribal, and local gover...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee on the Future of Water Quality in Coeur d'Alene Lake
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Dec-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309690447)
Coeur dAlene Lake in northern Idaho is an invaluable natural, recreational, and economic resource for communities in Idaho and eastern Washington. Starting in the late 1880s, mining in the Lakes watershed sent heavy metals and other mining wastes i...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jul-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309679817)
During the past century, the Everglades, one of the worlds treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management infrastructure to improve flood management, urban water supply, and agricultural production. The remnants...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee to Review the New York City Watershed Protection Program
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Dec-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309679701)
New York Citys municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City and about 1 million people living in nearby Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, and Orange counties. The combi...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Owens
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309670821)
During the 20th century, the city of Los Angeles diverted surface water flowing into Owens Lake for water supply, transforming the large, closed-basin, saline lake into a small brine pool surrounded by dry playa. Under high winds, the exposed lakebed...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Board on Life Sciences, Water Science and T
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309493857)
Legionnaires disease, a pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium, is the leading cause of reported waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States. Legionella occur naturally in water from many different environmental sources, but grow rapidly...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Lauren Everett
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Dec-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309499675)
Water of appropriate quantity and quality is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food, energy, and industrial production for any society and is derived for most needs from surface- or groundwater sources. Studies suggest that groundwater use in i...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee on Improving the Next-Generation EPA Multi-Sector General Permit for Industrial Stormwa
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Sep-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309488495)
Industrial stormwater is derived from precipitation and/or runoff that comes in contact with industrial manufacturing, processing, storage, or material overburden and then runs offsite and enters drainage systems or receiving waters. In 1987, Congres...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Roundtable on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-May-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309492379)
While the public is generally aware of the use of hydraulic fracturing for unconventional resource development onshore, it is less familiar with the well completion and stimulation technologies used in offshore operations, including hydraulic fractur...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Roundtable on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-May-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309492393)
While the public is generally aware of the use of hydraulic fracturing for unconventional resource development onshore, it is less familiar with the well completion and stimulation technologies used in offshore operations, including hydraulic fractur...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Policy and Global Affairs, Program on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events, Committee on Urb...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Mar-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309489621)
Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the United States, and these impacts are becoming more severe over time. Catastrophic flooding from recent hurricanes, including Superstorm Sandy in New York (2012) and Hu...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Policy and Global Affairs, Program on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events, Committee on Urb...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Mar-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309489645)
Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the United States, and these impacts are becoming more severe over time. Catastrophic flooding from recent hurricanes, including Superstorm Sandy in New York (2012) and Hu...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Ev
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309479813)
During the past century, the Everglades, one of the worlds treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management infrastructure that was intended to improve flood management, urban water supply, and agricultural produc...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Ev
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309479790)
During the past century, the Everglades, one of the worlds treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management infrastructure that was intended to improve flood management, urban water supply, and agricultural produc...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, National Academy of Engineering, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Ocean Studie
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Mar-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309476539)
Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two intersect. Over the decades the field has improved countless lives through innovative systems for delivering water, treating waste, and preventing and reme...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, National Academy of Engineering, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Ocean Studie
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Mar-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309476553)
Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two intersect. Over the decades the field has improved countless lives through innovative systems for delivering water, treating waste, and preventing and reme...Loe edasi...
