Archive for the ‘Environmental Engineering I’ Category

Water supply and wastewater system: brief history

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Long time ago, probably up to present, public water facilities were part of civil engineer's project. Water supply and wastewater drainage were among the job whose civil engineers do to preserve environment and protect human health.

Civil Engineering-civilization

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Civilization is the most important keword of this post. Through western civilization settled agriculture and the development of agricultural skills created a cooperative social fabric and spawned the growth of communities, as well as changed the face of the earth with its overriding impact on the natural environment. Civilization had ...

Environmental Engineer as profession

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

The general objectives and golas of colleges adn universities are to allow students to mature intelectually and socially and to prepare for careers, especially for environmental engineering profession that are rewarding. The chosen vocation is ideally an avocation as well. Having a job like an environmental engineer, we should take ...

Ecology: its term and concept

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Definition: ecology Ecology is the science of the relationships between organisms and their environments, defined by thefreedictionary. More explanation provided by wikipedia, as ecology is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and their interactions each other. Ecosystems, as part of ecology, is interdependent populations of organisms ...

Public health: short history

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Industrial revolution had changed everything including lifestyle, mindset throughout industry world as well as on sanitation condition. The sanitation condition was very sad, at least this was expressed in the Report from the Poor Law Commissioners on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain. ...

Wastewater treatment plant: the beginning

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

As you probably already aware, waste disposal methods had been found from ancient time. Sewers were found in the prehistoric cities of Crete and ancient Assyrian areas. Sewers built by the Romans, although at the first were mainly for carrying storm water, but in practice sewers were used to carry ...

Sewer, sewerage… in history

Friday, March 16th, 2007

On the early application of human waste disposal, nuisance and health problem always be primary effect caused by such activity. Just imagine, often the method of disposal consisted of nothing more than flinging out the content of the pots out the window!

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