The High Cost of Clean Water: Models for Water Quality Management, by Edward Beltrami, UMAP Expository Monograph. To cope with the severe wastewater disposal problems caused by increases in the nation's population and industrial activity, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fostered the development of regional wastewater management plans. This monograph discusses the EPA plan developed for Long Island and formulates a model that allows for the articulation of the trade-offs between cost and water quality. The mathematics involves partial differential equations and mixed-integer linear programming.

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