Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all those authors and publishers who have been so helpful
and willing to allow me to reproduce copyright material. In particular, I would like
to thank Ing. Paolo Romano, General Manager of the Po-Sangone Waste-water
Treatment Plant (Torino, Italy), Mr Gerry O'Leary of the Environmental Protection
Agency (Ireland) and Mr Alan Bruce, Consultant Environmental Engineer (UK) for
permission to reproduce specific material.
I am very grateful to Sarah Hunt of Elsevier Limited for her help and support in
producing this second edition.