PREFACE
Efforts made towards pollution control can bring to its
protagonist unexpected additional benefits. Even efforts
to teach pollution control can produce useful byproducts!
I am writing this with the intention of enhancing your
interest in pollution control- and specifically in this book-
but permit me to explain the backdrop of the experience
which has prompted me to make these statements.
In 1994 I had the privilege of organizing a short-term
training programme in environmental pollution control
engineering for in-service personnel and freshly
graduated MSc/BE degree students. The course
material was specially designed and developed for this
programme with an aim to integrate the virtues of a) clarity
b) brevity c) comprehensiveness and d) topicality.
We were flattered when the first edition of the training
programme was so well-liked by the participants - 75%
of whom were mature professionals working in industries
- that they prevailed upon us to organize it once again
within a month for their colleagues. The second version
was even more popular and brought in requests for an
encore... this trend continued. As a result within a short
span of a few years we have run this programme again
and again with consistent-rather increasing - popularity.
The basic reasons for the programme's acceptability.
cited by the participants in anonymous feed-backs were:
a) it packed all the relevant information in an easy-to-