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Environmental Water Engineering Glossary

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Part of the book series: Handbook of Environmental Engineering ((HEE,volume 14))

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Technical and legal terms commonly used by environmental water engineers are introduced. This chapter covers mainly the glossary terms used in the following two books:

  1. 1.

    Advances in Water Resources Engineering and

  2. 2.

    Modern Water Resources Engineering,

The above Two books form a miniseries in the field of water resources engineering.

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  1. Lenox Institute of Water Technology, Newtonville, NY, USA

    Mu-Hao Sung Wang PhD, PE & Lawrence K. Wang PhD, PE

  2. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Mu-Hao Sung Wang PhD, PE & Lawrence K. Wang PhD, PE

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  1. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

    Chih Ted Yang

  2. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

    Lawrence K. Wang

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Wang, MH., Wang, L. (2015). Environmental Water Engineering Glossary. In: Yang, C., Wang, L. (eds) Advances in Water Resources Engineering. Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11023-3_10

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