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Selected papers from the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2018, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 3–7, 2018. This collection contains 34 peer-reviewed papers on water, wastewater and stormwater; urban watershed management; municipal water infrastructure, and desalination and water reuse. Topics include: stormwater runoff modeling and management; flood risk assessment; flood damage mitigation; wastewater treatment modeling and analysis; and sustainable wastewater treatment. This proceedings will be of interest to researchers and practitioners working in the areas of stormwater and flood management.

Factory and trade waste --- Municipal water --- Water resources --- Water management --- Stormwater management --- Municipal wastewater --- Waste management --- Wastewater management --- Urban and regional development --- Environmental aspects.

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If you are like many people, the thought of giving a speech to a group of strangers can strike terror into your heart. As an engineer, you know that employers put a premium on soft skills such as public speaking, but you’re puzzled about how you can improve your own performance. Shoots Veis understands your predicament. A practicing engineer himself, he often makes presentations to councils, zoning boards, land-use commissions, any of the municipal bodies that contract for infrastructure. He has been on the other side of the podium, too: during a stint on the Billings, Montana, city council, he listened to a lot of engineers talk about projects. He’s seen the good, the bad, and the downright embarrassing. In Public Speaking for Engineers: Communicating Effectively with Clients, the Public, and Local Government, Veis takes readers step by step through the process of preparing for a presentation. He breaks the main topics—speech planning, design, and delivery—into component pieces and explains the range of choices, emphasizing the importance of understanding your audience. Throughout the book, he uses an ongoing example to illustrate the path for planning, preparing, and delivering a speech. A dozen or so case studies offer tales of real-life successes and missed opportunities. In the final chapter, Veis delves into what local governments do and how they do it. Veis offers a wealth of practical advice and enthusiastic coaching to anyone who needs to make a technical presentation to a nontechnical group of decision makers. Engineers of all kinds will appreciate this roadmap to a successful public presentation. Christopher A. (Shoots) Veis, P.E., is a senior project engineer focusing on municipal engineering assignments involving water and wastewater systems, land development, permitting, and project management. He served for five years as an elected member of the Billings, Montana, city council.

Communication in engineering. --- Communication of technical information. --- Public speaking. --- Local government --- Client relationships --- Land use --- Project management --- Case studies --- Municipal water --- Municipal wastewater --- Zoning --- Montana --- United States

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Biomass has been used worldwide as a renewable energy source (RES) to produce biofuels to 
mitigate the primary energy resources depletion and to fight against global warming (GW). 
This RES can be originated from agricultural crops as main products to produce bio-energy 
(first-generation biofuels), or from agricultural crops and industrial processes as by-products 
or waste (second-generation biofuels), or from oleaginous microorganisms (OMO), which are 
able to accumulate lipids that can be converted into biofuels, for instance, from municipal 
sewage sludge (MSS), as a third-generation of biofuels. The MSS can be considered as a 
potential feedstock for biofuel production due to its lipids content and abundant availability. 
On this way, by applying Circular economy (CE) concepts in Wastewater Treatment Plants 
(WWTP), raw materials from sewage sludge, such as lipids can be converted, for instance, via 
transesterification into valuable products, like biodiesel. Besides economic benefits, it
contributes to the reduction of pollution due to sewage sludge generation, and also leads to 
the reduction of consumption of the natural resource “fossil diesel” by using biodiesel. In this 
work, a Lipids accumulation pilot plant was, for the very first-time, implemented and tested 
for biodiesel production from lipids accumulated by OMO, with focus on Microtrix parvicella, 
one of the most known filamentous bacteria in MSS. The preliminary results demonstrated 
that the Lipids-pilot plant is an interesting alternative to accumulate lipids from sewage 
sludge, once the results of extracted lipids from the bio-reactors were higher than those from 
the inlet wastewater and, consequently, with higher biodiesel production.

Circular economy, Renewable energy, Municipal wastewater, Sewage sludge, Oleaginous microorganisms, Microthrix parvicella, Microbial lipids, Third generation of Biofuels, Biodiesel --- Sciences du vivant > Sciences de l'environnement & écologie

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Selected papers from the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 19–23, 2019. Sponsored by the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE. This collection contains 24 peer-reviewed papers on water, wastewater, and stormwater and urban water resources and infrastructure. Topics include: concentrate management; performance analysis of stormwater control systems; and maintenance and rehabilitation of stormwater management systems.This proceedings will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in all areas of stormwater management.

Water-supply --- Water resources --- Municipal water --- Stormwater management --- Municipal wastewater --- Infrastructure --- Resource management --- Waste management --- Wastewater management --- Urban watersheds --- Urban runoff --- Municipal water supply --- Management --- Runoff --- Sewage --- Urban hydrology --- Urban snowmelt runoff --- Urban stormwater runoff --- Watersheds --- Urbanized watersheds --- Municipal engineering --- Cities and towns --- Urban water --- Water, Municipal --- Water, Urban

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Wastewater use in agriculture is a growing practice worldwide. Drivers include increasing water stress, in part due to climate change; increasing urbanization and growing wastewater flows; and more urban households engaged in agricultural activities. The problem with this trend is that in low-income countries, but also in many middle-income countries, it either involves the direct use of untreated wastewater or the indirect use of polluted waters from rivers that receive untreated urban discharges. This poses substantial risks, in particular microbial risks to public health. To address these risks, the World Health Organization in 2006 issued new guidelines for the safe use of wastewater.This paper aims to highlight the growing importance of improving wastewater use in agriculture across the spectrum from lower to high-income countries. It presents an innovative approach linking key issues related to different aspects of wastewater irrigation to a country's level of economic development. Based on data presented in the World Bank's World Development Report, it differentiates between four country income levels to create a typology for analyzing current issues, trends, and priorities for improving agricultural wastewater use with a focus on reducing the risks to public health. It also presents the basic principles of the new 2006 World Health Organization Guidelines, and how to apply them. Beyond regulatory aspects, the paper also discusses other aspects that are important for achieving a more integrated approach to agricultural wastewater use, including institutional/planning, technological, economic/financial, and social issues. Finally, the paper provides recommendations for moving the wastewater irrigation agenda forward.

Activated sludge --- Artificial groundwater --- Artificial groundwater recharge --- Biological processes --- Climate change --- Food security --- Irrigation water --- Municipal sewage --- Municipal wastewater --- Pollution --- Public health --- Rivers --- Sanitation and Sewerage --- Soil fertility --- Storm water --- Wastewater --- Wastewater management --- Wastewater reuse --- Wastewater Treatment --- Water and Industry --- Water Conservation --- Water pollution --- Water Resources --- Water supply --- Water Supply and Sanitation --- Water Supply and Systems