Meet the editor

Kevin Summers is a Senior Research Ecologist at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Gulf Ecosystem Measurement and Modeling Division. At present, he is working with colleagues in the Sustainable and Healthy Communities Program to develop an index of community resilience to natural hazards, an index of human well-being that can be related to changes in ecosystem, social and economic services, and a community sustainability

tool for communities with populations less than 40,000. He leads research efforts for indicator and indices development. Dr. Summers is a systems ecologist and began his career at the EPA in 1989 and has worked in various programs and capacities. This includes leading the National Coastal Assessment in collaboration with the Office of Water culminating in the award-winning National Coastal Condition Report series (four volumes between 2001 and 2012), which integrates water quality, sediment quality, habitat and biological data to assess the ecosystem condition of the estuaries of the United States. He was the acting National Program Director for Ecology for the EPA between 2004 and 2006. He has authored approximately 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and reports and has received many awards for technical accomplishments from the EPA and outside the agency. Dr. Summers holds a BA in Zoology and Psychology, an MA in Ecology and PhD in Systems Ecology/Biology.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Approach

**Section 3**

*and Alan T. Herlihy*

Water Quality Parameters *by Nayla Hassan Omer*

of Soil-Transmitted Helminths

*and Raghava R. Kommalapati*

*by Limin Ma and Changxu Han*

of Lakes and Reservoirs in the United States

*by David V. Peck, Steven G. Paulsen, Philip R. Kaufmann* 

**Preface XI**

Water Quality Parameters **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 21**

Water Quality Treatments **35**

**Chapter 3 37**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 71**

Water Quality Assessments **87**

**Chapter 6 89**

Sense of Place and Water Quality: Applying Sense of Place Metrics to Better Understand Community Impacts of Changes in Water Quality *by Kate K. Mulvaney, Nathaniel H. Merrill and Marisa J. Mazzotta*

Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems for Prevention and Control

Association of Polyethylene Glycol Solubility with Emerging Membrane

Water Quality Ecological Risk Assessment with Sedimentological

Jewels across the Landscape: Monitoring and Assessing the Quality

*by Abdallah Zacharia, Anne H. Outwater and Rob Van Deun*

Technologies, Wastewater Treatment, and Desalination *by Hongbo Du, Subhani Bandara, Laura E. Carson* 
