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Standards, Manuals of Practice, and Guidance Documents
- Advances in Water and Wastewater Treatment
- Agricultural Salinity Assessment and Management (MOP 71 2nd edition)
- ASCE Standardized Reference Evapotranspiration Equation
- BMP Technology in Urban Watersheds: Current and Future Directions
- Calculation of the Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Fine-Grained Soils (65-17)
- Carbon Capture and Storage: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Methods
- Chelating Agents for Land Decontamination Technologies
- Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: Adaptive Design and Risk Management
- Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications in Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Treatment
- Contaminants of Emerging Environmental Concern
- Cost of Maintaining Green Infrastructure
- Curve Number Hydrology: State of the Practice
- Effects of Urbanization on Groundwater: An Engineering Case-Based Approach for Sustainable Development
- Environmental Sustainability in Transportation Infrastructure
- Evaporation, Evapotranspiration, and Irrigation Water Requirements (MOP 70)
- Forward Osmosis: Fundamentals and Applications
- Gravity Sanitary Sewer Design and Construction
- Great Works on Urban Water Resources (1962-2001)
- Green Streets, Highways, and Development 2013: Advancing the Practice
- Green Technologies for Sustainable Water Management
- Grounded!: Amazing Classroom Demonstrations in Soil Mechanics
- Groundwater Contamination by Organic Pollutants
- Groundwater Quality Modeling and Management Under Uncertainty
- Groundwater Quantity and Quality Management
- Guidelines for Monitoring Stormwater Gross Solids
- Guidelines for the Physical Security of Water Utilities; Guidelines for the Physical Security of Wastewater/Stormwater Utilities (56-10 & 57-10)
- H2Oh!: Classroom Demonstrations for Water Concepts
- Henry P. G. Darcy and Other Pioneers in Hydraulics
- Inspection and Maintenance of Stormwater Control Measures
- Linking Stormwater BMP Designs and Performance to Receiving Water Impact Mitigation
- Long-Term Groundwater Monitoring: The State of the Art
- Management Practices for Control of Erosion and Sediment from Construction Activities (66-17)
- Membrane Technology and Environmental Applications
- Nanomaterials in the Environment
- Nanotechnologies for Water Environment Applications
- Natural Processes and Systems for Hazardous Waste Treatment
- Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavement (68-18)
- Permeable Pavements
- Pipelines for Water Conveyance and Drainage (MOP 125)
- Protection and Restoration of Urban and Rural Streams
- Public Safety Guidance for Urban Stormwater Facilities
- Radar Rainfall Data Estimation and Use (MOP 139)
- Residential Land Development Practices: A Textbook on Developing Land into Finished Lots
- Selection of Irrigation Methods for Agriculture
- Standard Guideline for Fitting Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Using Probability Density Function (50-08R); Standard Guideline for Calculating the Effective Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity (51-08R)
- Standard Guideline for the Geostatistical Estimation and Block-Averaging of Homogeneous and Isotropic Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity (54-10R)
- Standard Guidelines for Artificial Recharge of Ground Water (34-01)
- Standard Guidelines for the Design of Urban Stormwater Systems, Standard Guidelings for Installation of Urban Stormwater Systems, and Standard Guidelines for the Operation and Maintenance of Urban Stormwater Systems (45-05, 46-05,47-05)
- Standard Guidelines for the Design of Urban Subsurface Drainage, Standard Guidelines for the Installation of Urban Subsurface Drainage, and Standard Guidelines for the Operation and Maintenance of Urban Subsurface Drainage (12-05, 13-05, 14-05)
- Standard Guidelines for the Design, Installation, and Operation and Maintenance of Stormwater Impoundments (62-16, 63-16, 64-16)
- Standard Guidelines for the Design, Installation, and Operation and Maintenance of Urban Stormwater Systems (45-16, 46-16, 47-16)
- Standard Guidelines for the Design, Installation, and Operation and Maintenance of Urban Subsurface Drainage (12-13, 13-13, 14-13)
- Standard Practice for Direct Design of Buried Precast Concrete Pipe Using Standard Installations (SIDD) (15-17)
- Standard Practice for Direct Design of Precast Concrete Pipe for Jacking in Trenchless Construction (27-17)
- Statistical Analysis of Hydrologic Variables: Methods & Applications
- Stormwater Manufactured Treatment Devices: Certification Guidelines
- Sustainable Water Resource Management: An Introduction
- TMDLs in the Urban Environment: Case Studies
- Total Maximum Daily Load Analysis and Modeling: Assessment of the Practice
- Urban Drainage Modeling
- Urbanization Challenges in Emerging Economies: Energy and Water Infrastructure; Transportation Infrastructure; and Planning and Financing
- Water Resources Systems Analysis through Case Studies: Data and Models for Decision Making
- Zero-Valent Iron Reactive Materials for Hazardous Waste and Inorganics Removal
Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings
- Environmental and Pipeline Engineering 2000 (conference proceedings)
- Bridging the Gap: Meeting the World's Water and Environmental Resources Challenges
- Building Partnerships (conference proceedings)
- Environmental and Water Resources History
- Global Solutions for Urban Drainage (conference proceeding)
- Hydraulic Measurements and Experimental Methods 2002
- ICSI 2014: Creating Infrastructure for a Sustainable World
- International Low Impact Development Conference 2015: LID: It Works in All Climates and Soils
- International Low Impact Development Conference 2016: Mainstreaming Green Infrastructure
- International Low Impact Development Conference 2018: Getting In Tune with Green Infrastructure
- Low Impact Development 2010: Redefining Water in the City
- Low Impact Development for Urban Ecosystem and Habitat Protection (2008)
- Low Impact Development Technology: Design Methods and Case Studies (2011)
- Low Impact Development Technology: Implementation and Economics (2011)
- Low Impact Development: New and Continuing Applications
- Watershed Management 2010: Innovations in Watershed Management under Land Use and Climate Change
- Watershed Management 2015: Power of the Watershed
- Watershed Management and Operations Management 2000
- Wetlands Engineering & River Restoration 2001
- World Environmental and Water Resource Congress 2006: Examining the Confluence of Environmental and Water Concerns
- World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007: Restoring Our Natural Habitat
- World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008: Ahupua'A
- World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009: Great Rivers
- World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010: Challenges of Change
- World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2011: Bearing Knowledge for Sustainability
- World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries
- World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2013: Showcasing the Future
- World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2014: Water without Borders
- World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2015: Floods, Droughts, and Ecosystems
- World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2016: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater and Urban Watershed Symposium
- World Water & Environmental Resources Congress 2003
Continuing Education: Webinars & Short Courses
- Cold-Weather Stormwater BMPs That Work
- Compaction of Soils and Properties of Compacted Soils
- Construction Stormwater BMPs
- Culvert Analysis Using FHWA HY8 Software
- Erosion Control and Revegetation Metrails; design, Installation and Performance
- Hydraulic Analysis of Storm Drain Inlets
- Hydraulics 101: Understanding the Basics
- Hydrologic Trespass and Nuisance Considerations in Stormwater Management Design
- Hydrology 101: Advanced Topics and Applications
- Hydrology 101: Understanding the Processes
- Installation, Design and Performance of Prefabricated Drains, aka PVDs
- Lessons Learned from the Design, Construction and Maintenance of Permeable Pavements for Stormwater Management
- Long Term Durability (aka, Lifetime) of Geosynthetics
- Low-Volume Roads: Surface Drainage and Drainage Crossing Structures
- Stormwater Constructed Wetland Design
- Stormwater Infiltration Basin Design: Design Consideration and Example Projects
- Stream Restoration Bioengineered Retaining Walls for Riverbank Stabilization
- Stream Restoration: Proper Channel Sizing and the Significance for Future Channel Stability
- Underground Stormwater BMPs: Alternatives for Highly Developed and High Value Sites
- Hydraulic Design of Low Impact Development Stormwater Features
- Learn to SWMM