Environmental Engineering
Introduction
Environmental Engineering is a discipline of engineering devoted to the development and application of scientific knowledge through technology to eliminate or minimize adverse effects associated with human activities.
It operates at four different levels: remediation of contaminated sites, treatment of effluents, pollution prevention, and care for future generations.
Environmental engineering is fundamentally object-focused, rather than tool-based. It therefore draws from all other engineering disciplines that are apt to bear on the desired objectives. Pursuit of pollution prevention and sustainability further implicate social, cultural and economic considerations. Generally, it includes supply of water, disposal and recycling of wastes, drainage of communities, control of water, soil, atmospheric pollution and environmental impacts of different activities carried out on earth.
Nowadays, the causes of environmental problems are the increasing population and the greater consumption of natural resources. Another cause is pollution, which includes air, land, water, marine and noise. Pollution is defined as the introduction of harmful contaminants that are outside the norm for a given ecosystem. These various types of pollutions are discussed in this research. In addition, radiation, natural calamities and drugs, narcotics and food additives are also included.
Environmental engineering plays extremely important role because cleaner and healthier environment means healthier life with more quality. Unhealthy environment leads to diseases, deaths, and generally low quality of life.
Science and engineering really have tough task ahead of them to keep our environment clean and healthy in years to come because ecological problems are constantly growing, and what is even worse, they are all connected so solving one doesn't count a lot on global scale. Take for instance problem of air and water pollution in Asia, water supply in Africa and
Environmental Engineering is a discipline of engineering devoted to the development and application of scientific knowledge through technology to eliminate or minimize adverse effects associated with human activities.
It operates at four different levels: remediation of contaminated sites, treatment of effluents, pollution prevention, and care for future generations.
Environmental engineering is fundamentally object-focused, rather than tool-based. It therefore draws from all other engineering disciplines that are apt to bear on the desired objectives. Pursuit of pollution prevention and sustainability further implicate social, cultural and economic considerations. Generally, it includes supply of water, disposal and recycling of wastes, drainage of communities, control of water, soil, atmospheric pollution and environmental impacts of different activities carried out on earth.
Nowadays, the causes of environmental problems are the increasing population and the greater consumption of natural resources. Another cause is pollution, which includes air, land, water, marine and noise. Pollution is defined as the introduction of harmful contaminants that are outside the norm for a given ecosystem. These various types of pollutions are discussed in this research. In addition, radiation, natural calamities and drugs, narcotics and food additives are also included.
Environmental engineering plays extremely important role because cleaner and healthier environment means healthier life with more quality. Unhealthy environment leads to diseases, deaths, and generally low quality of life.
Science and engineering really have tough task ahead of them to keep our environment clean and healthy in years to come because ecological problems are constantly growing, and what is even worse, they are all connected so solving one doesn't count a lot on global scale. Take for instance problem of air and water pollution in Asia, water supply in Africa and