本书为市政与环境工程专业废水处理方面的一本经典的、权威的教科书，并且是该专业人士的必备工具书。
本书前3版分别于1972，1979，1991年出版。本书主要内容包括：废水组分的确定，处理工艺的分析与选择，物理单元过程，化学单元过程，生物处理原理，悬浮生长和附着生长生物处理工艺，废水高级处理，消毒工艺，废水回用，生物固体的处理、处置及再利用，水处理厂运行的有关问题等。
在原第3版内容的基础上，本书介绍了近十年来废水处理技术和法规方面的变化，并提供了该领域最新技术现状的信息，结合物理、化学和生物处理工艺阐述了废水处理的理论和设计问题，并扩充了废水生物处理的理论和设计部分。本书还对数据表进行了全面更新，并加入了新的设计实例，反映了工艺设计中的技术变化。

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1 Wastewater Engineering:An Overview
1-1 Terminology
1-2 Impact of Regulations on Wastewater Engineering
1-3 Health and Environmental Concerns
1-4 Wastewater Characteristics
1-5 Wastewater Treatment
1-6 Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse Current Status
1-7 Biosolids and Residuals Management CurrentStatus
2 Constituents in Wastewater
2-1 Wastewater Constituents
2-2 Sampling and Analytical Procedures
2-3 Physical Characteristics
2-4 Inorganic Nonmetallic Constituents
2-5 Metallic Constituents
2-6 Aggregate Organic Constiuents
2-7 Individual Organic Compounds
2-8 Biological Characteristics
2-9 Toxicity Tests
3 Analsis and Selection of Wastewater Flowrates and Constituent Loadings
3-1 Components of Wastewater Flows
3-2 Wastewater Sources and Flowrates
3-3 Statistical Analysis of Flowrates,Constituent Concentrations,and Mass Loadings
3-4 Analsis of Wastewater Flowrate Data
3-5 Analysis of Constituent Mass Loading Data
3-6 Selection of Design Flowrates and Mass Loadings
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Appendixes
Indexes