Domestic Wastewater Treatment in Developing Countries
This book details methods of domestic wastewater treatment that are especially suitable in developing countries. The emphasis is on low-cost, low-energy, low-maintenance, high-performance systems that contribute to environmental sustainability by producing effluents that can be safely and profitably used in agriculture for crop irrigation and/or in aquaculture for fish and aquatic vegetable pond fertilization. Modern design methodologies, with worked design examples, are described for waste stabilization ponds (WSP), wastewater storage and treatment reservoirs, constructed wetlands, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors, biofilters, aerated lagoons, and oxidation ditches.
The book provides a foundation to the practical design of wastewater treatment and reuse systems in developing countries, with an emphasis on sustainable and cost-effective technologies, with the goal of reducing wastewater-related diseases and environmental damage. Essential reading for design engineers and academics and upper-level or undergraduate post-graduate engineering students.
Duncan Mara is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds and Visiting Professor at the Instituto Cinara, Universidad del Valle, Colombia.
Contents: What is Domestic Wastewater and Why Treat It? Excreta-related Diseases Essential Microbiology and Biology Effluent Quality BOD Removal Kinetics Domestic Wastewater Treatment Options Wastewater Flows and Loads Preliminary Treatment Waste Stabilization Ponds Anaerobic Ponds Faculative Ponds Maturation Ponds Physical Design of WSPs Operation and Maintenance of WSPs Monitoring and Evaluation of WSPs Wastewater Storage and Treatment Reservoirs Constructed Wetlands Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactors Biofiltration Simple Activated Sludge Variants Waste Reuse in Agriculture Wastewater Reuse in Aquaculture Bibliography
Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd. Duncan Mara October 2004 256 pp., 6" x 9 1/4"
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Domestic Wastewater Treatment in Developing Countries
Domestic Wastewater Treatment in Developing Countries 
This book details methods of domestic wastewater treatment that are especially suitable in developing countries. The emphasis is on low-cost, low-energy, low-maintenance, high-performance systems that contribute to environmental sustainability by producing effluents that can be safely and profitably used in agriculture for crop irrigation and/or in aquaculture for fish and aquatic vegetable pond fertilization. Modern design methodologies, with worked design examples, are described for waste stabilization ponds (WSP), wastewater storage and treatment reservoirs, constructed wetlands, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors, biofilters, aerated lagoons, and oxidation ditches.