Fundamentals of Water Security: Quantity, Quality, and Equity in a Changing Climate

Understand How to Manage Water Resources to Equitably Meet Both Human and Ecological Needs

Burgeoning populations and the ever-higher standards of living for those in emerging countries increase the demand on our water resources. What is not increasing, however, is the supply of water and the total amount of water in earth's biosphere--water that is integral to all standards of living. Fundamentals of Water Security provides a foundation for understanding and managing the quantity-quality-equity nexus of water security in a changing climate.

In a broad sense, this volume explores solutions to water security challenges around the world. It is richly illustrated and pedagogically packed with up-to-date information. The text contains chapter learning objectives, foundation sections reviewing quantitative skills, case studies, and vignettes of people who have made important contributions to water security. To further aid comprehension, end-of-chapter problems are included--both qualitative and quantitative, with solutions available to instructors. Finally, extensive references feature books, journal articles, and government and NGO reports. Sample topics discussed include:

• How the study of water resources has evolved from a focus on physical availability to include social factors and governance
• How water security affects multiple disciplines across environmental science and engineering, hydrology, geography, water resources, atmospheric science, chemistry, biology, health science, and social and political science fields
• How to achieve a sufficient quantity and quality of water to equitably meet both immediate and long-term human and ecological needs
• Analysis of water security in an integrated manner by underscoring the complex interactions between water quantity, water quality, and society

Students taking courses on hydrology, water security, and/or water resource management, along with scientists working in fields where water security is a factor will be able to use Fundamentals of Water Security as a comprehensive textbook to understand and achieve water security.

水安全基礎知識
了解如何管理水資源以公平地滿足人類和生態需求

不斷增長的人口和新興國家中不斷提高的生活水平增加了對我們水資源的需求。然而，水的供應量和地球生物圈中的總水量並未增加，而這些水是所有生活水平的重要組成部分。《水安全基礎知識》為了解和管理變化中氣候下水安全的數量-質量-公平關係提供了基礎。

從廣義上講，本書探討了世界各地水安全挑戰的解決方案。它豐富地插圖，並且以最新的信息充滿教學內容。本書包含章節學習目標，回顧定量技能的基礎部分，案例研究以及對水安全做出重要貢獻的人的短篇故事。為了進一步幫助理解，章末包含問題，包括定性和定量問題，並提供給教師解答。最後，廣泛的參考文獻包括書籍、期刊文章以及政府和非政府組織的報告。討論的示例主題包括：

- 水資源研究如何從關注物理可用性發展到包括社會因素和治理
- 水安全如何影響環境科學和工程、水文學、地理學、水資源、大氣科學、化學、生物學、健康科學以及社會和政治科學等多個學科領域
- 如何實現足夠的水質和水量，以公平地滿足人類和生態的即時和長期需求
- 通過強調水質、水量和社會之間的複雜相互作用，綜合分析水安全

修讀水文學、水安全和/或水資源管理課程的學生，以及在水安全是一個因素的領域工作的科學家，將能夠使用《水安全基礎知識》作為一本全面的教科書來理解和實現水安全。

Jim F. Chamberlain, PhD, P.E., BCEE, has worked in the field of hydrology and environmental engineering since 1979. As a Co-Director of the OU WaTER Center, Jim has implemented research and projects on fluoride mitigation in Ethiopia, arsenic mitigation in Cambodia, water supply distribution in El Salvador, and solar water pumping and hand pump repair in Uganda.

David A. Sabatini, PhD, P.E., BCEE, is David Ross Boyd Professor and Sun Oil Company Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma. He is the Founding Director of the OU WaTER Center. His research focuses on sustainable drinking water systems for developing countries, surfactant-based environmental and biofuel technologies, and understanding/characterizing groundwater contaminant transport and remediation.

Jim F. Chamberlain, PhD, P.E., BCEE，自1979年以來一直從事水文學和環境工程領域的工作。作為OU WaTER中心的聯合主任，Jim在埃塞俄比亞實施了氟化物緩解研究和項目，在柬埔寨進行了砷緩解研究，在薩爾瓦多進行了供水分配研究，並在烏干達進行了太陽能水泵和手動抽水機的維修工作。

David A. Sabatini, PhD, P.E., BCEE，是俄克拉荷馬大學土木工程和環境科學系的David Ross Boyd教授和Sun Oil Company捐贈的講座教授。他是OU WaTER中心的創始主任。他的研究重點是發展中國家可持續飲用水系統、基於表面活性劑的環境和生物燃料技術，以及理解/表徵地下水污染物運移和修復。