本书介绍了水处理和水资源方面的专业英语29篇，每篇又分为2部分，内容包括：水资源、水质、水质管理、给水处理技术、地表水污染、地下水污染、污水收集、污水处理的传质理论、污水处理技术及微生物学等，信息量大，可读性强，使学生在提高英语能力和熟悉专业词汇的同时，又提高了专业技能。
本书可作为高等学校给水排水专业、水文水资源专业和环境工程专业本、专科生专业英语教材或课外专业英语阅读材料，也可为从事相关志业的工程技术人员获取相关的科技信息提供参考。

PART ONE
Unit 1 Hydrologic Cycle
Reading Material A The Water Balance
Reading Material B Protecting Water Resources
Unit 2 Drinking Water Quality
Reading Material A Existing Deficiencies in Water Supplies
Reading Material B Quality of Ground Water
Unit 3 Water Analyis
Reading Material A Water Problems
Reading Material B Surface Water Quality in Texas
Unit 4 Public Water Supply System
Reading Material A Public Water Supply System Regulatlons
Reading Material B Ground Water Movement
Unit 5 Assesmaent of the Drinking Water Supply
Reading Material A Drinking Water Quality Management
Reading Material B The Effects of Urbanization on Water Quality
Unit6 Pumps and Pumping Stations
Reading Material A Pumps
Reading Material B Water-supply Engineering
Unit 7 Water Supply System
Reading Material A Distribution Systems
Reading Material B Dual Water Distribution
Unit 8 Home Plurnbing System
Reading Material A Plumbing
Reading Material B Sewage System
Unit 9 Water Treatment Processes
Reading Material A The History of Drinking Water Treatment
Reading Material B Storm Water
Unit 10 Mixing
Reading Material A CoaguLation and Floeeulatlon
Reading Material B Optimizing Coagulation
Unit 11 Coagulation and Flocculation
Reading Material A Theories of Coagulation
Reading Material B Water Treatment Chemicals
Unit 12 Sedimentation
Reading Material A Groundwater Quality
Reading Material B Pre-sedimentation and Sedimentation
Unit 13 Filtration and Filter Types
Reading Material A Direct Filtration
Reading Material B Filter Backwashing
Unit 14 Disinfection
Reading Material A Comparing Alternative Disinfection Methods
Reading Material B Disinfection By-products
Unit 15 Chemical Precipitation Softening
Reading Material A Recarbonation
Reading Material B Ion-exchange Softening
PART TWO
Unit 16 Surface Water Pollution
Reading Material A Ground Water Contamination
Reading Material B Cause and Sources of Surface Water Pollution
Unit 17 Constituents in Wastewater
Reading Material A Impact of Regulations on Wastewater Engineering
Reading Material B Health and Environmental Concerns in Wastewater Management
Unit 18 Wastewater Collection
Reading Material A Past and Present of U.S. Wastewater Treatment
Reading Material B Wastewater Collection System
Unit 19 Reactors Used for the Treatment of Wastewater
Reading Material A Treatment Processes Involving Mass Transfer
Reading Material B Wastewater Treatment
Unit 20 Flotation
Reading Material A Primary Sedimentation
Reading Material B Grit Removal System
Unit 21 Chemical Oxidation
Reading Material A Types of Mixers Used for Continuous Mixing in Wastewater Treatment
Reading Material B Chemical Precipitation for Phosphorus Removal
Unit 22 Wastewater Biological Treatment Processes
Reading Material A Modification to Existing Processes
Reading Material B Sludge Treatment
Unit 23 Microbes as Chemical Machine
Reading Material A Introduetiun of Sewage Treatment
Reading Material B Biological Treatment System
Unit 24 Nitrification and Denitrification
Reading Material A Nitrification and Denitrifieation Processes
Reading Material B Biological Phosphorus Removal
Unit 25 Advanced Wastewater Treatment
Reading Material A An Introduction of Depth Filtration
Reading Material B Membrane Filtration Processes
Unit 26 Adsorption
Reading Material A Ion Exchange
Reading Material B Advanced Wastewater Treatment
Unit 27 Anaerobic Fermentation
Reading Material A Wastewater Reuse
Reading Material B Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Processes
Unit 28 Sludge Treatment Utilization and Disposal
Reading Material A Soirces and Types of Solid Wastes
Reading Material B Sludge Dewatering
Unit 29 Introduction to Microbiology
Reading Material A Process Microbiology
Reading Material B Advanced Wastewater Treatment
Bibiliography