Index
Accelerometers
ADRs. See American Depositary Receipts
Adsorption treatment:
carbon, granular activated (GAC)
resins, or ion exchange
ADSs. See American Depositary Shares
Advocacy:
for antiprivatization
in California
by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
AECOM Technology
Aerobic organisms. See Membrane bioreactors
Afghanistan
Africa
Agriculture. See also Biofuels
conservation
drought, response to
eutrophication, cause of
high-input
irrigation
nonpoint (unidentifiable) sources of pollution
resource management
runoff
salinity in soils
Air Liquide S.A.
Air & Water Technologies
Algae:
coagulation/sedimentation/filtration for removal
cyanobacterial (blue-green) toxins
detection in the field
eutrophication of water supplies
Allocation of water:
as an asset
market forces
reuse of water
Aluminum sulfate, Al2(SO4), or alum
American Chemical Society
American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)
American Depositary Shares (ADSs)
American Water Works Association (AWWA)
Ametek
AMR. See Metering: automatic meter reading
Analysis:
of global water costs
of standard deviation
of ultrapure water
Analytics:
asset management
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirements
instrumentation
laboratories
metering
monitoring, measuring, and testing
Anatoxin-a
Angola
Anion deionization
Aqua America
Aquarion
Aquifers:
Hucco Bolson
Ogallala
recharging with treated water
remediating pollution of
Argentina
Army Corps of Engineers
Arnott, Robert
Arsenic:
case study
residential water treatment systems
Asea Brown Boveri (ABB AG)
Asia
Assessments, geographic information systems (GIs)
Asset class, water as:
allocation in portfolio
versus category
defined
exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
frequency of review
water defined as
water funds
weighting methodology
Asset management of capital infrastructure
Association of California Water Agencies
Astec Industries
Australia
Automation:
of leak detection
of meter reading
Automotive air bag manufacturing
AWWA. See American Water Works Association
Axel Johnson/Kinetico
Azurix
Badger Meter, Inc.
Baghdad
Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board
Bangladesh
Basin Water, Inc.
BAT. See Best available technology
Batteries, manufacturing
Best available technology (BAT):
arsenic removal
carbon, granular activated (GAC)
disinfection by-products
ion exchange
lack of, for home water treatments
lack of, for perchlorate contamination
requirements for, in United States
Best management practices (BMPs). See also Management
stormwater permit coverage
urban nonpoint (unidentifiable) stormwater runoff
BetzDearborn
Beverages industry
Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD):
measuring
septic tank systems
ultraviolet (UV) disinfection
Bioenvironmental research
Biofuels. See also Agriculture
Biogeochemical cycles
Biologically active carbon (BAC) filtration
Bioremediation. See also Resource management
Biosolids (sludge):
innovation in pumps
management
Biotechnology
Biotreatment
Blackwater separation
BMPs. See Best management practices
BOC Gases
BOD. See Biochemical oxygen demand
Bolivia
Bonds, municipal
BOP. See Bottom-of-pyramid
Boston, pipe network
Bottled water
Bottom-of-pyramid (BOP) markets
Brackish water
Branding:
residential water treatment
water treatment products
Brazil
Brazos River
BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China). See individual countries
Bundled versus unbundled water delivery
C. parvum. See Cryptosporidium
Calgon Carbon Corporation
California:
Assembly Bill AB
methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) regulations
perchlorate, regulation of
water reuse regulations
water softeners, ban on
California Pipe Fitters
Campylobacter
Canada
Cap-and-trade for water
Capital requirements:
burdens, regulatory
infrastructure, asset management of
growing demand for potable water
Carbon, granular activated (GAC)
Carbon cycle
Carbon footprint
Carrying capacity:
of biosphere and human effect on
cultural
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
of water supplies
Cascal N.V.
Case studies:
arsenic
methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE)
perchlorate
Categories of water:
analytical
versus asset class
hybrids (multibusiness)
infrastructure
resource management
treatment of water
water filtration
water utilities
Cation resins (ion exchange)
Center for Ecology and Hydrology
Central Europe
Centralized versus decentralized treatment of water and wastewater
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard
Chemical oxygen demand (COD)
Chemical treatments:
biocides and disinfecting chemicals
China’s demand for
chlorine
chlorine dioxide
chlorine gas and security needs
coagulants
demand for, by China
flocculants, polymeric
marketing, integrated approach
ozone
measuring
photochemistry(see also Ultraviolet [UV])
resins, or ion exchange
specialty, for corrosion control
China:
freshwater, amount of
infrastructure needs
Ministry of Water Resources
productivity
regulatory bodies
semiconductor industry
treatment chemicals, demand for
urbanization trend
Chlorine (Cl2)
controversy
versus mixed oxidants
versus ultraviolet (UV) disinfection
Chlorine dioxide (CIO2)
Chlorophyll-a, measuring
Classification of water:
as asset class
chemical composition
definition of water
as commodity
as economic good
as public (social) good
as resource
Clean Air Act (CAA)
Clean Water Act (CWA):
and biosolids (sludge)
description of
regulation as a driver of water industries
stormwater runoff
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program
and water resource management
Climate change:
carbon credits
dam building
drought
flooding
greenhouse gases
heat capacity of water
uncertainty, planning for
water quality, effects on
Coagulation treatment of water
Coalition for Practical Regulation (Los Angeles)
Coastal life zones and runoff
COD. See Chemical oxygen demand
Collection systems and stormwater runoff
Colorado River
Combined sewer overflows (CSOs)
Commodity:
water as risk
Company names, symbols, and activities. See also Investment opportunities
centralized treatment companies
decentralized treatment companies
desalination plant and equipment suppliers
exchange-traded funds (ETF)-based water indexes
investments, potentially strategic
irrigation
pump, valve, and flow control
reservoirs and dams
resource management
utilities
water analytics
water funds (sampling)
water metering
water transmission and distribution
water treatment chemical manufacturers
water treatment companies
Competition versus privatization
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund)
Connecticut
Conservation:
drought, and pricing by utilities
low-flush toilets
policy concern, long-term
rainwater collection
residential reuse of water
true costs of water resources
voluntary versus involuntary
water-saving devices
Consolidated Water
Consolidation of water delivery:
European versus U.S. utilities
horizontal, and future of utilities
scale efficiencies of
Consumers:
behavior
water products
residential customers
Contaminants:
arsenic
candidate list (CCL), by EPA
chloroform
cleanup and remediation
cooling towers
Cryptosporidium (C. parvum)
cyanobacterial (blue-green algae) toxins
cylindrospermopsin
detection of
endocrine disruptors
Escherichia coli
fluorometrics, for detection in the field
health care, effects on
heavy metals
Giardia
lead
measurement
methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE)
microbiological
monitoring, measuring, and testing
nanotechnology, emerging market
nonpoint sources
perchlorate
residential water treatment systems
Salmonella
Shigella
unregulated
Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR)
Vibrio cholerae
and waterborne disease
Cooling towers
Corrosion and scale
Cost of water:
clean (global)
true
Cryptosporidium (C. parvum)
CSO. See Combined sewer overflow
Culligan
CUNO
CWA. See Clean Water Act
Cyanobacterial (blue-green algae) toxins
Cycles. See also Ecology; Environment
biogeochemical
carbon
climate change, effect on
hydrologic (re)cycle
phosphorus
Cylindrospermopsin
Dallas
Dames & Moore
Dams
“Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems: A Program Strategy” (EPA)
Deep-well injection
Degremont S.A.
Delivery-based versus solution-based approach
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Denver Water
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Deregulation. See also Privatization
Desalination:
brackish water
decentralized
electrodialysis (ED)
innovations
International Desalination & Water Reuse Quarterly
process
reverse osmosis (RO)
Detection of contaminants
Developing countries
DIs. See Ion exchange dionizers
Disease. See Health care; Public health;Waterborne diseases
Disinfectants:
alternative methods
biocides
by-products (DBPs)
carbon, granular activated (GAC)
chlorine
monitoring, measuring, and testing
oxidants, mixed
ozone
reducing residuals in drinking water
resins and ion exchange
ultraviolet (UV)
and water reuse
Disinfectants/Disinfection By-Products (D/DBP) Rule
Disruptive decentralized development (DDD)
Dissolved oxygen (DO)
Distillation, for desalination
Distributed resource management
Distributed wastewater treatment
Distribution of water:
irrigation
leak detection
pipe network
retail channels, for do-it-yourself treatment
water quality, effect on residential treatment of water
Ditch Witch
DO. See Dissolved oxygen
Do-it-yourself water treatment
“Domestic Municipal End-to-End Architecture Study” (DHS)
Doosan Heavy Industries
Dow Filmtec
Drilling, horizontal directional (HDD)
Drinking water:
Drinking Water Directives (DWDs)
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (DWSRF)
regulations
resource management, distributed
Drought:
climate change and
pricing by utilities
well drilling
Dupont
Ebara Corporation (Japan)
Ecology. See also Cycles; Environment
carrying capacity of ecosystem
economics
globalization
thoughts for the future
Three Gorges Dam
water resource management
Economic crisis (2008)
Economic growth and development:
and biosphere
dams
and ecology
effects on water
sustainability
water as essential for
Economic good, water as
Economic incentives
Economies of scale:
foreign consolidation and acquisitions
urbanization
wastewater, centralized versus decentralized treatment
Ecosystems and salinity
EDR. See Electrodialysis removal
Efficiencies:
leakage, reducing
monitoring, measuring, and testing water
Effluent limitations
Egypt
Electrical power:
cap-and-trade system
demand for, in water treatment
distributed, compared with wastewater treatment
ultraviolet (UV) treatment of water
utilities
Electrodialysis (ED) treatment
Electrolysis, salt brine. See Oxidants, mixed
Electronics industry
Eljer, Inc.
El Paso Water Utilities (EPWU)
Endocrine disruptors
Engineering and consulting services:
environmental remediation
water resource management
Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (ESWTR)
Enron
Environment. See also Cycles; Ecology
alternative treatments of water
assessments
coastal life zones
estuaries and stormwater runoff
eutrophication of water supplies
versus globalization
Gulf of Mexico dead zone
remediation
watersheds and effect of biofuels
wise-use principle
Environmental consulting versus full-service project management
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). See also Regulations
analytical testing requirements
burdens, regulatory, on providers
contaminant candidate list (CCL), by EPA
“Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems: A Program Strategy,”
Disinfectants/Disinfection By-products (D/DBP) Rule
estimate of biosolids (sludge)
estimate of water infrastructure costs
evaluation of small and residential treatment systems
Ground Water Rule (GWA)
investment needs of publicly owned treatment works (POTWs)
lining requirements for landfills
Long-Term Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LTESWTR)
Long-Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2ESWTR)
maximum contaminant levels (MCLs)
monitoring, measuring, and testing contaminants
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) (see National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System)
nonpoint (unidentifiable) sources of pollution
policy issues and emerging regulations
regulation of utilities
Safe Drinking Water Act (see Safe Drinking Water Act)
standards for total dissolved solids (TDS)
support of mixed oxidants disinfection
Targeted Watershed Grant
Total Coliform Rule (TCR)
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR)
urban stormwater runoff
Watershed Protection Approach
Equimarginal value in use
Escherichia coli
Estuaries and stormwater runoff
ESWTR. See Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
ETFs. See Exchange-traded funds
Ethiopia
E-Town Water
Europe
European Commission
European Union (EU)
Eutrophication
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
Federal Facilities Compliance Act
Federal and state revolving funds
Fertilizer, chemical
Filtrasorb
Filtration treatments. See also Microfiltration; Nanofiltration; Ultrafiltration
for algae
carbon, biologically active
conventional
faucet-mount
markets
and membrane separation
pour-through pitchers
stormwater runoff
versus tap water
water conditioners and softeners
Fisia Italimpianti
Flooding and climate change
Florida
Flowmatic
Fluid Conservation Systems
Fluor Daniels/Groundwater Technology
Fluorometrics
Foreign securities
Foreign water utilities
Fort Bliss
France
Franks, Felix
Freshwater. See also Groundwater; Surface water
amount of (global)
cyanobacteria (algal toxins)
eutrophication of
Funds:
exchange-traded (ETFs)
index investing
investment funds
GAC. See Carbon, granular activated
Gas chromatography
General Electric
Geographic information systems (GIS)
GE/Osmonics
Geraghty & Miller
Ghana
Giardia
GIS. See Geographic information system
Glaciers, amount of freshwater in
Globalization:
versus ecology
implications of
and investing
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
water institutions
water supply and demand, global
water policy, global
Global warming. See Climate change
Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment (WHO)
GL&V
Goulds Pumps
Granular activated carbon (GAC). See Carbon, granular activated
Great Britain
Greywater
Groundwater. See also Freshwater; Surface water
contaminants
irrigation
and membrane separation
ozonation
pretreatment and reuse of water
remediating pollution of aquifers
septic tank systems
as source of freshwater
treatments
wastewater systems, decentralized
Ground Water Rule (GWA)
Guatemala
Gulf of Mexico “dead zone,”
Gutermann International Ltd.
Halma Water Management Plc
Harding Lawson
Hard water
HDD. See Drilling, horizontal directional (HDD)
Health care. See also Public health; Waterborne disease
arsenic, risks associated with
climate change and waterborne diseases
cylindrospermopsin contaminants
endocrine disruptors
hepatitis
life science research
methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), risks associated with
monitoring, measuring, and testing contaminants
perchlorate contamination, risks associated with
treatments of water
Health Consultants Inc.
Heavy metals
Heidemij N.V.
Hetch Hetchy Valley
Hitachi Zosen
HOBAS
Home Depot
Honduras
Hueco Bolson (aquifer)
Hydranautics
Hydrogen
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)
Hydrologic (re)cycle system:
and carbon biogeochemical cycles
and climate change
drought
in equilibrium
assessment, with geographic information systems (GIs)
phases of
reuse of water
stationarity concept
watershed protection
ICF Kaiser
IDE Technologies, Ltd
IMF. See International Monetary Fund
Immunoassay-based test kits
Immunosorbent assay methods
Incineration of biosolids (sludge)
Index investing
India
Industrialization
Industry, water:
consolidation
privatization
rate increases versus efficiencies
rationalization of
Information Collection Rule (IRC)
Information technology (IT). See also Technologies
asset management
instruments for measuring
irrigation innovations
meter reading, advances in
semiconductor manufacturing
Infrastructure:
aging networks
asset management
climate change and
decentralized
distribution system
dual systems for potable and reclaimed water
financing
flow control and pumps
hybrid systems
investment needs of wastewater treatment
leak detection
as part of water industry
pipe network and rehabilitation
politics and federal spending
privatization
stormwater
Underground Construction’s Municipal Sewer & Water Survey
upgrades and spending gap
wastewater treatment
Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Financing Authorities
water quality and distribution systems
Infrastructure to 2030 report (OECD)
Inland Empire Water District (CA)
Insituform Technologies
Institutes
Inter-American Development Bank
Interest rates, as driver for pricing
International Agency for Research on Cancer
International Desalination Association (IDA)
International Desalination & Water Reuse Quarterly
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Securities Exchange (ISE) Water Index
International Water Supply Association
Intrinsic value of water
Investment, future of
Investment funds
Investment opportunities. See also Company names, symbols, and activities
analysis of global water costs
arsenic removal
biosolids (sludge) management
carrying capacity as driver for
conservation measures
consolidated water companies
convergent technologies
detection of algal toxins
drought as a cause of
European consolidation versus U.S. utilities
global water institutions, effects on
information technology (IT)
infrastructure for stormwater runoff
intrinsic value of water
investment needs of wastewater treatment
irrigation
market influence on sustainability
metering
nanotechnology, emerging
needs of publicly owned treatment works (POTWs)
in post-economic crisis world
rationalization of water industries
regulations, emerging, for nonpoint pollution sources
remediation, engineering and consulting services
remediation of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE)
residential point of use (POU) market
reuse and dual systems of delivery
stormwater and agricultural runoff
structural change in water industry
thematic strategy for
treatment technologies for perchlorate removal
utilities
water industries
water-related applications
water-related industries
water treatment companies
Ion exchange
Ion exchange dionizers (DIs)
Ionics (GE)
IRC. See Information Collection Rule
Irrigation:
conservation
dams
developed and developing nations
groundwater supplies
innovations
investing
resource management
salinity and
Irvine Ranch Water District (CA)
ISE
Israel
Itron
ITT Corporation
Japan:
desalination technology
membrane bioreactor manufacturing
semiconductor industry
Tokyo and urbanization trend
Kansas
Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant
Kenya
Koch Fluid Systems
Kyoto Protocol
LAACE (Latin America, Africa, and Central Europe). See individual regions
Labor:
globalization
productivity
spent in procuring water
Laboratories, demand for
Landfills:
biosolids (sludge)
flow and pumps
lining requirements
Latin America and the Caribbean
Lead:
residential water treatment systems
in Washington.C., drinking water
Lead and Copper Rule
Legionella pneumophila (Legionnaires’ disease)
Leopold, Aldo
Life science research
Lime softening for arsenic removal
Lindsay Manufacturing
Long-Term Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LTESWTR)
Los Angeles
Low-flush toilets
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mali
Management. See also Best management practices (BMPs)
asset
biosolids
centralized
demand-side
distributed resource
full-service project
future of water utilities
irrigation
versus “myth” of scarcity
publicly owned treatment works (POTWs)
regulations, federal
stationarity concept
water as a resource. 56-57, 213-217
watershed
water utilities
Mandela, Nelson
Manufacturing:
as end-users of water industry
automotive air bags
batteries
glass, and arsenic
globalization and
membrane bioreactors
munitions
pump
semiconductor
urbanization and
use of polymers
Market drivers:
allocation of water resources
edogenous (structural)
globalization
industrialization
privatization
structural
urbanization
equimarginal value in use
Markets:
bottled water
bottom-of-pyramid (BOP) markets
clean-tech
consumer water products
cooling towers
do-it-yourself retail
filtration
health care
heavy metals
industry and manufacturing
instruments, analytic
laboratories, demand for
municipal
nanotechnology, emerging
pharmaceuticals and biotechnology
point-of-use (POU)
pump manufacturing
residential, convergent technologies
restoration
Marmon Water/KX Industries
Massachusetts
Maximum contaminant levels (MCLs)
MBR. See Membrane bioreactor
MCLs. See Maximum contaminant levels
MDGs. See Millennium Development Goals
Membrane bioreactors (MBR):
treatment of water
manufacturing
water reuse
Membrane separation
Metering. See also Monitoring, measuring, and testing
analytics
automatic meter reading (AMR)
conservation
real-time
Methyl tertiary butyl ether (case study)
MF. See Microfiltration
MHI/Sasakura
Microcystin
Microfiltration (MF). See also Filtration; Nanofiltration; Ultrafiltration
and membrane technology
residential systems
stormwater and agricultural runoff
Middle East
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Monitoring, measuring, and testing. See also Metering
biosensors, emerging research
chlorophyll-a
high-growth segment
instrumentation
laboratories
public water systems
remote units (telemetry)
water as resource, not product
Morrison Knudsen
Mozambique
Mueller Water Products
Muir, John
Multinational companies and desalination
Multistage flash (MSF) process for desalination
Municipal bonds
Municipalities:
and climate change
desalination of brackish water
pipe rehabilitation, trenchless
stormwater regulations and costs
urbanization trend
Underground Construction’s Municipal Sewer & Water Survey
Mvula Trust
Nalco Company (Ondeo Nalco)
Nanofiltration (NF). See also Filtration; Microfiltration; Ultrafiltration
Nanotechnology
National Academy of Sciences
National Council on Public Works Improvement
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR)
National Resources Defense Council
National Sanitation Foundation (NSF)
National Waterworks Holdings
National Weather Service
Natural Resources Defense Council
Net primary productivity (NPP)
Nevada, presence of perchlorate
Newah
New Jersey
“New” New Deal, the
NF. See Nanofiltration
NGOs. See Nongovernmental organizations
Nigeria
Nitrate
Nitrogen load and biofuels
Nitto Denko
Nixon, Richard
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
Nonpoint (unidentifiable) sources of pollution:
regulations, emerging
stormwater runoff
Norit N.V.
Norwalk virus
NPDES. See National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NPDWR. See National Primary Drinking Water Regulations
NPP. See Net primary productivity
NSF. See National Sanitation Foundation
Obama, Barack
Ogallala aquifer
Oil compared to water (intrinsic value)
Oklahoma
ONDEO
Organics removal
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Osmonics (GE)
Outsourcing
Oxidants, arsenic removal
Oxidants, mixed
Oxygen molecules in water
Ozone disinfection (ozonation)
Ozone (O3)
Ozonia
Pacific Water Quality Association
Pakistan
Palisades Global Water Index
Palisades Water Indexes
Paper industry
Peace River (FL)
Pentair/Everpure
Perchlorate (case study)
Personal care products (PPCPs)
Pesticides
Petroleum refiners
Pharmaceuticals
pH balance
Philippines, The
Phoenix, AZ, ecosystem
Phosphorus cycle
Pinchot, Gifford
Pipeline rehabilitation:
corrosion and scale
leak detection, innovations in
supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
trenchless
types of pipe
Underground Construction’s Municipal Sewer & Water Survey
Pipe network
Platte River Valley
Point of entry (POE):
home treatment devices
residential whole-house treatment of water
Point of use (POU):
arsenic removal
centralized treatment of water
conservation and marginal cost pricing
drinking water, decentralized
faucet attachments
pour-through pitchers
technologies, decentralized
under-the-counter
under-the-counter water treatment
Point of use-reuse (POUR):
decentralized drinking water
residential reuse of wastewater
technologies, decentralized
Polar ice caps
Policy, global water, in future
Pollution. See also Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
agricultural
costs, with bundled services approach
industrial
nonpoint (unidentifiable) sources
stormwater runoff
Polymeric flocculants
Polymers
Polymetrics
Polypore International
Population, world:
carrying capacity of environment
freshwater supply
WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program for Water Supply and Sanitation
Portfolio:
new theory, for post-economic crisis world
water as an asset class
POTWs. See Publicly owned treatment works
POU. See Point of use
POUR. See Point of use-reuse
PowerShares Water Resources Portfolio
PPCPs. See Personal care products
Praxair, Inc.
Price-earnings ratio of water companies
Pricing:
conservation
cost estimates of clean water
marginal cost pricing
price-earnings ratio of water companies
public (social good) versus efficiencies
utility pricing schemes
water rates
Privatization:
acquisitions by global mega-utilities
as an economic good
foreign water companies
in Great Britain
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and
pros and cons
water rights
Processed food industry
Procter & Gamble
Productivity. See also Net primary productivity
ProNet
Public health. See also Health care; Waterborne disease
Publicly owned desalination plants
Publicly owned treatment works (POTWs)
Public-private partnerships
Public water systems (PWSs)
Pumps
Purification systems
PWC/Crane Environmental (Crane)
PWSs. See Public water systems
Quality of life
Quality of water:
biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)
chemical oxygen demand (COD)
compromised by distribution systems
Environmental Protection Agency
and regulations
Queensland (Australia)
Quest Diagnostics
Rainwater collection
Raker Act
Rationalization of markets
Rationalization of water delivery
Recovery Engineering
Recycled Water Task Force (California)
Reformulated Gasoline (RFG) program
Regulations. See also Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
burdens on utilities
centralized management of decentralized treatment of water
Coalition for Practical Regulation (Los Angeles)
decentralized framework
developing nations
discharge
Disinfectants/Disinfection By-products (D/DBP) Rule
disinfection with mixed oxidants
distribution systems of water
emerging issues
European Union
federal versus state responsibility
foreign utilities
globalization
global water institutions
groundwater
influenced by technology
Lead and Copper Rule
Level 1 model (EPA) for utilities
Long-Term Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LTESWTR)
Long-Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2ESWTR)
maximum contaminant level (MCL)
membrane technologies
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR)
nongovernmental organizations
nonpoint (unidentifiable) sources of contamination
stormwater
Surface Water Treatment Rule (SWTR)
Total Coliform Rule
triahalomethanes (THMs)
in the United States
Report of the World Commission on Dams (WCD)
Reservoirs and dams
Residential users:
bottled water
contamination problems
developing methods of water treatment
do-it-yourself water treatments
EPA evaluations
filtration versus tap-water
ion exchange water treatment
microfiltration treatment
monitoring and controlling of remote units
point-of-use (POU) market
reuse of wastewater
reverse osmosis
softeners
ultraviolet (UV) treatment
under-the-counter water treatment
Resins and ion exchange
Resource:
delivery-based versus solution-based approach
equimarginal value in use
management, as part of water industry
water as a
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA)
Resource economics
Resource management:
defined
full-service project management
irrigation
remediation
reservoirs and dams
residential reuse of wastewater
Retail channels:
residential water treatments
water filtration category
Reuse of water:
allocation, effective, of resource
trend toward, worldwide
Reverse osmosis (RO):
arsenic removal
and membrane separation
desalination
pumps, booster
Rio Grande
Risk analysis, standard deviation
RO. See Reverse osmosis
Rooftop reservoirs
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rural Utilities Service programs
Russia
Rust International
Rwanda
RWE AG
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). See also Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
burdens, regulatory, on providers
climate change and watershed management
contaminant candidate list (CCL), by EPA
Disinfectants/Disinfection By-Products (D/DBP) Rule
groundwater treatment
laboratories
policy issues and emerging regulations
regulation of arsenic
regulation in United States
Safe Water Treatment Rule (SWTR)
Salinity and urban water
Salmonella
San Diego
San Francisco
Sashkura Company
Saudi Arabia
SCADA. See Supervisory control and data acquisition
Scale and corrosion of pipes
Scarcity factor
Scotland
Semiconductor manufacturing
Septic tank systems
Services, bundled versus unbundled
Severn Trent
Shigella
Sidem
Sierra Club
Socioeconomics and water
SOCs. See Synthetic organic chemicals
Solutions-based approach
South Africa
South America
Southeast Asia
South Korea
Spain
Special interests, effects on water rates
S&P Global Water Index
St. Louis
St. Petersburg
Stakeholders
Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (China)
State Council (China)
State Environmental Protection Administration (China)
State Revolving Fund
Stationarity concept in water management
Statistical data analysis
Stocks. See also Company names, symbols, and activities
picking, in future
view of bottom of water
water utilities
Stone & Webster
Stormwater runoff:
climate change and watershed management
infiltration and inflow (I/I)
investment needs
municipal bonds, future need for systems
nonpoint (unidentifiable) runoff
overflows and backflows
peak storm design
regulation
water resource management
Strategic Diagnostics Inc.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Suez Environment
Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux
Superfund sites
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
Supply and demand:
of depletable resources (groundwater)
amount of water on Earth
scarcity factor and “myth,”
Surface water. See also Freshwater; Groundwater
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
stormwater runoff
treatments
water resource management
Surface Water Treatment Rule (SWTR)
Sustainability:
carrying capacity of ecosystem
dam building
economic development
engineering and consulting services
versus market price
net primary productivity, defined
principle of
resource management
reuse of wastewater
rooftop reservoirs
urbanization, trend toward
water resource management
wise-use principle
SWDA. See Safe Drinking Water Act
Switzerland
SWTR. See Surface Water Treatment Rule
Synthetic organic chemicals (SOCs)
Taiwan
TDS. See Total dissolved solids
Technologies. See also Best available technology (BAT); Information technology (IT)
biosensors, emerging research
biotechnology
convergent, decentralized treatment of water
desalination
detection in the field
detection of contaminants
distillation, multi-effect
drilling, horizontal directional (HDD)
electrodialysis (ED) and electrodialysis reversal (EDR)
flow control and pumps
fluorometric method
GE’s Water and Process Technologies
immunoassay-based test kits
innovative
instruments, analytical
irrigation
laboratories
leak detection
materials, innovative
membrane and multiple-barrier
membrane bioreactors
multistage flash (MSF) process for desalination
nonpoint sources of pollution
pipe rehabilitation, trenchless
radio transmitters for meter reading
reverse osmosis (RO)
stormwater runoff
water conditioners and softeners
Teledyne
Telemetry
Texas
Thailand
THMs. See Triahalomethanes
Three Gorges Dam
Tietenberg,Tom
TMDL. See Total Maximum Daily Load
Topway Global
Topway Global, Inc.
Toray
Total Coliform Rule (TCR)
Total dissolved solids (TDS)
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
Toyobo
Trailigaz Ozone
Treatments of water:
adsorption
biotechnology
carbon, biologically active carbon (BAC)
carbon, granular activated (GAC)
centralized
chemical
chemical oxidation
chemical versus nonchemical
chlorine
chlorine dioxide (CIO2)
conventional, primary and secondary
decentralized
“Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems: A Program Strategy” (EPA)
desalination
distillation
distributed wastewater treatment
do-it-yourself
filtration and separation (membrane)
of groundwater
of hard water
home treatment devices
hybrid systems of
ion exchange (ionization)
membrane bioreactors (MBR)
membrane separation
microfiltration (MF)
oxidation processes, advanced
ozonation
perchlorate reduction, biologically catalyzed
pH balance
photooxidation
pretreatment
of publicly owned treatment works (POTW)
residential solutions
resins and ion exchange
reverse osmosis
of salinity and urban water
of stormwater runoff
ultraviolet (UV)
of wastewater, centralized
water softeners and salinity
Trends:
alternative disinfection methods
consolidation of water industry
cost efficiencies in public utilities
desalination
distributed wastewater treatment
nonchemical treatments of water
privatization, pros and cons
rate increases, favorable
urbanization
Triahalomethanes (THMs)
TT Technologies
Tuolumne River
Ultrafiltration (UF). See also Filtration; Microfiltration; Nanofiltration
Ultrapure water
Ultraviolet light (UV):
open-channel systems
oxone treatment, combined with
residential systems
turbidity, reduced effectiveness
ultraviolet C (UVC)
UN. See United Nations
Underground Construction’s Municipal Sewer & Water Survey
Underground storage tanks
Underground Storage Tank (UST)
UNESCO. See United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)
Uniserve Wellpoint
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO)
United Nations (UN)
United States. See also individual states and cities
Army Corps of Engineers
brackish water supplies
centralized versus decentralized treatment of water
Clean Air Act (CAA)
Clean Water Act
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense (DOD)
Department of Energy (DOE)
energy policies
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (see Environmental Protection Agency [EPA])
exchange-traded securities
Federal Facilities Compliance Act
federal and state revolving funds
foreign acquisition of utilities
General Accounting Office
infrastructure investment
investment needs of publicly owned treatment works
national versus regional utilities
National Weather Service and climate change
pipe network
Safe Drinking Water Act
security of water supply
unaccounted-for water (leaks)
U.S. General Accounting Office
water companies, number of
United Water Resources
Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR)
UN-Water
Urbanization:
in China
demands on water
and stormwater runoff
World Urbanization Prospects (UN)
U.S. Filter
U.S. Filter/Siemens
Utah
Utilities:
acquisition by global mega-utilities
activities, nonregulated
burdens, regulatory
cost efficiencies in public utilities
delivery-based versus solution-based system
foreign
Great Britain’s privatization of
holding companies
leak detection
metering
names and symbols of companies
pricing schemes, favoring consumption
resource management
stocks, publicly traded
trend toward unbundled services
water and wastewater, functional categories
UV. See Ultraviolet light
Valmont Industries
Veolia Environment
Vermeer
Vibrio cholerae
Vivendi
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
Wal-Mart
Waste minimization
Wastewater:
biosolids (sludge) management
chemical treatments
combined sewer overflows (CSOs)
“Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems: A Program Strategy” (EPA)
distributed wastewater treatment
municipal bonds, future need for
nutrient runoff
reuse of water
septic tank systems
stormwater runoff
treatment, decentralized
treatment technologies, centralized
ultraviolet (UV) disinfection(see also Disinfectants)
versus water
Water:
amount on Earth
anomalies of
availability
categories
clean
defined
global conditions of
human effects on(see also Climate change)
intrinsic value of
reuse
shortfalls
stress threshold
stocks, view of bottom
true cost of
ultrapure
unaccounted-for
versus wastewater
“Water: Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Sector-Specific Plan” (DHS)
Water Action
Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Financing Authorities
Water Authority of Fiji
Water bonds
Waterborne disease. See also Health care; Public health
climate change
chlorine, use of
Cryptosporidium (C. parvum)
cyanobacterial (blue-green algae) toxins
cylindrospermopsin
endocrine disruptors
Escherichia coli
Giardia
mortality figures
Salmonella
Shigella
Vibrio cholerae
Water Environment Federation
Water Environment Federation (WEF)
WateReuse Association
Water for People
Water funds
Water industry, integrated approach
Water Poverty Index (WPI)
Water quality, cap-and-trade methodology
Water Quality Association
Water rate (tariff) schedules
Water Reuse 2001 (conference)
Water rights
Water Sector-Specific Plan (SSP)
Water Services Industry Act (Malaysia)
Watersheds:
biofuels, effects on
cap-and-trade methodology
climate change
geographic information systems (GIs)
Gulf of Mexico “dead zone,”
policy, initiatives, and sustainability
salinity
Watershed Protection Approach (WPA)
WaterWorld Directory of Municipal Water & Wastewater Systems
Watts Water
Wedeco AG
WEF. See Water Environment Federation
Weighting methodology
Well drilling
Wessex Water
Wetlands
Wheelabrator Technologies
White rust
World Bank:
loans to private water companies
and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
report on reform of water institutions
water institutions
World Health Organization (WHO):
Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment
and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
statistics on global water supply and demand
study of water and sanitation goals
total dissolved solids, standards
water institutions
WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program for Water Supply and Sanitation
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World Urbanization Prospects (UN)
Worster, Donald
WPA. See Watershed Protection Approach
WPI. See Water Poverty Index
Yangtze River
Yemen