Publisher's Synopsis
This is an instructor's manual (with questions) to a work which shows environmental scientists, engineers and students how to examine a water pollution problem and methodically investigate and solve it. The manual is available free to qualified instructors.;The main book is suitable for students as well as professionals who have a background in basic vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, botany, chemistry and the environmental sciences, who wish to broaden their knowledge of the effects of water pollution.;The book begins with an overview of water pollution that is addressed in detail in subsequent chapters. The nature and properties of water as a substance are described, and several chapters deal with basic environmental concepts, population dynamics and the structure of natural ecosystems. It facilitates an understanding of bacteria and algae, and their importance and role in the natural ecosystem and the contaminated environment.;Specific types of pollution are also addressed, including representative types of contamination scenarios. These topics, along with concepts described in earlier chapters, can help identify typical or expected patterns associated with pollution and the potential effects on the biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem.
