American Water Works Association

Water and wastewater utility managers will find expert guidance on all issues regarding security and emergency preparedness and response in this book. Chapters cover Types of intentional and natural...

This third edition of M22 contains information needed to estimate customer demand and maximum expected flow that can be used to size new service lines and meters. This edition expands the ways to...

Perhaps no other advancement of public health has been as significant. Yet, few know the intriguing story of a simple idea--disinfecting public water systems with chlorine--that in just 100 years has...

This is the first book to tell the incredible true story of the first use of chlorine to disinfect a city water supply, in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1908. This important book also corrects...

Population growth and unchallenged water use have brought us to the brink of a worldwide water crisis. This fascinating book presents scenarios for the broad trends that will have a significant...

2011 Benjamin Franklin Award winnerSustainability recognizes that organizational decisions concern more than just the bottom line. The societal and environmental impacts of decisions must be...

The most important resources at any utility are human resources. People make all the difference in the success or failure of your utility's operation. Managing utility workforce issues is the focus...

In the past, it seemed as if groundwater treatment regulations were an afterthought to surface water regulations. Today, water treatment professionalshave a much better understanding of the...

Microorganisms, such as bacteria and protozoa, do the actual breakdown and removal of nutrients and organic material in the wastewater. A wastewater treatment plant operator's job is to control this...

From time to time city, county, or state officials must address important water and wastewater issues, such as water resources, utility service rates, or capital financing for new infrastructure...

Written for utilities serving fewer than 100,000 customers, this book providespractical advice andguidance for implementinga water conservation program. With a menu of possible conservation...

Water operators will find a wealth of hands-on information on the operation and maintenance of pretreatment, rapid-rate granular media filtration, slow-sand filtration, and diatomaceous-earth...

Resolving customer water quality complaints is one of the most important aspects of maintaining a successful water distribution system. Complaint investigation involves not just professional water...

Thisbook provides guidance to utilities that are involved in or may face legal challenges to its rates and fees. It explainskey legal concepts encountered in water ratemaking with citations to...

For AWWA's latest textbooks for water operator education, check out our Water System Operations (WSO) products at www.awwa.org/wso. This reference book provides information on mathematics,...

Water utilities of all sizes find this guidebook very helpful as they assess and upgrade the physical and operational security of their systems. This book describes measures a water utility can take...

Now, every water treatment operator can identify and correct treatment deficiencies to maintain the desired water quality. Water Treatment Process Monitoring & Evaluation shows how. A basic part of...