Posted on | August 5, 2011 | 1 Comment Mānoa’s Chittaranjan Ray,
professor and interim director of the Water Resources Research
Center, co-edited Drinking Water Treatment: Focusing on
Appropriate Technology and Sustainability with Ravi Jain, dean
of engineering and computer science at the University of the
Pacific. Published by Springer, this 262-page book focuses on
four treatment technologies, namely solar pasteurization,
membrane desalination, riverbank filtration as a natural
filtration method and solar distillation for drinking water
production. The book begins with a comparative analysis of
various water treatment technologies and subsequently addresses
the details of the four treatment techniques. Finally, it
provides a trans-disciplinary analysis of differing views of the
concept of sustainability and highlights technology transfer
possibilities and implementation procedures. Solar
pasteurization, solar distillation and riverbank filtration are
low cost technologies with differing scales of implementa