What’ll They Think of Next? Dewatering Contaminated Slurries Using Geotextile Tubes
Sediment must be dredged from the bottom of waterbodies to maintain their capacity and navigability. Dredging, by its nature, involves the removal of highwater-content slurries and also helps preserve...

Sediment Pollution: Solving "Rill" Problems Using RECPs
Sediment pollution causes an estimated $16 billion in environmental damage annually. Sediment is the most common pollutant in rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs, causing such negative effects as temperature...

Design of Shoreline Protection Measures : The Importance of Geotechnical Engineering in Waterfront Design
Over the past decade, there’s been an increased realization of the need to better protect our shorelines, particularly in urban environments along coastlines that have already been impacted by storm surge...

Adventures in Managing Water
Real-World Engineering Experiences
Sponsored by the River Basin Planning, Policy, and Operations Technical Committee of the Planning and Management Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCEAdventures in Managing...

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, By Jeff Goodell. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017

New York Water Siphon Nears Completion Despite Delays from Sandy

Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource, By David Sedlak. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2014

Operations Begin at Austin's New, 50 mgd Treatment Facility

Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles, By Les Standiford: New York City; HarperCollins, 2014

The Brown Agenda: My Mission to Clean Up the World's Most Life-Threatening Pollution, By Richard Fuller. Solana Beach, California: Santa Monica Press, 2015

Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World, By Seth M. Siegel. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books, 2015

Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment
The Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment presents activity and research developments in water issues, challenges, and opportunities throughout the developed landscape. The scope covers...

Pore Water Pressures in Unsaturated Soils
Unsaturated soils are three-phase systems composed of solid mineral matter, water, and air. Such soils may be formed by either natural or artificial means. Except in moist environments,...

Identification of a Class of Nonlinear Dynamic System

London: Water and the Making of the Modern City By John Broich. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013

Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply By David Soll. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2013

2013 National Concrete Canoe Competition, Swamp Test
A swamp test being performed by California State University, Sacramento at the 2013 National Concrete Canoe Competition, held June 20-22, 2013 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,...

2012 National Concrete Canoe Competition, Swamp Test
A swamp test being performed by Rutgers University at the 2012 National Concrete Canoe Competition, held June 14-16 in Reno, NV....

The Geoengineering of Contaminated Sediments

Water Management in 2050

 

 

 

 

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