Environmental engineering Environmental engineering Agricultural wastewater treatment relates to the treatment of wastewaters produced in the course of agricultural activities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agricultural wastewater treatment"
(Biofilter) Biofiltration is a pollution control technique using living material to filter or chemically process pollutants. Common uses include processing waste water, capturing and containing harmfull chemicals or silt, and microbiotic oxidation of contaminants in air. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biofilter"
Bioswales are landscape structures designed to remove silt and pollution from runoff water. They consist of a swaled drainage ditch with gently sloped sides (less than six percent) and filled with vegetation, compost and riprap. The water's flow path, along with the wide and shallow ditch, are designed to maximize the time water spends in the swale, which aids the trapping of pollutants and silt. Biological factors also contribute to the breakdown of certain pollutants. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bioswale"
Channelization is the process of reconstructing the natual course of a stream in order to make it flow into a restricted path. ...more on Wikipedia about "Channelization"
A constructed wetland is an artificial marsh or swamp, created for human use, such as wastewater, storm water runoff or sewage treatment, as habitat to attract wildlife, or for land reclamation after mining or other disturbance. Natural wetlands act as biofilters, removing sediments and pollutants such as heavy metals from the water, and constructed wetlands can be designed to capitalize on this feature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Constructed wetland"
==Gaussian Air Pollutant Dispersion Equation== ...more on Wikipedia about "Dispersion modeling of air pollutants"
Earth systems engineering and management (ESEM) is a discipline used to analyze, design, engineer and manage complex environmental systems. It entails a wide range of subject areas including anthroplogy, engineering, environmental science, ethics and philosophy. At its core, ESEM looks to "rationally design and manage coupled human-natural systens in a hightly integrated and ethical fashion" (Gorman, 2004). ESEM is a newly emerging area of study that has taken root at the University of Virginia, Cornell and other universities throughout the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Earth systems engineering and management" Fast shortopedia shortopedia
Hydraulics is a branch of science and engineering concerned with the mechanical properties of liquids. It is part of the more general discipline of fluid power. The word "hydraulics" comes from the Greek word ὑδϱαυλικός (hydraulikos) which in turn comes from ὕδϱαυλος meaning water organ which in turn comes from ὕδωϱ ( water) and αὐλός ( pipe). The earliest masters of this art were Hero of Alexandria and Ctesibius. The ancient engineers however focused on sacral and novelty uses of hydraulics, rather than practical applications. One of the founders of modern hydraulics was Benedetto Castelli, a student of Galileo Galilei. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hydraulics"
Hydroinformatics is a branch of Informatics which concentrates on the appliction of information and communications technologies ( ICTs) in addressing the increasingly serious problems of the equitable and efficient use of water for many different purposes. Growing out of the earlier discipline of computational hydraulics, the numerical simulation of water flows and related processes remains a mainstay of hydroinformatics, which encourages a focus not only on the technology but on its application in a social context. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hydroinformatics"
Hydrology (from Greek: Yδρoλoγια, Yδωρ+Λoγos, Hydrologia, the "study of water") is the study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water throughout the Earth, and thus addresses both the hydrologic cycle and water resources. A practitioner of hydrology is a hydrologist, working within the fields of either earth or environmental science, or civil and environmental engineering. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hydrology"
Riparian areas or zones are the interface between land and water. They are the areas adjacent to water courses that are prone to flooding. Riparian zones are an important matter in environmentalism and civil engineering due to their significance for managing erosion control, their ecologies and the large effect they have on aquatic ecosystems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Riparian"
Riparian Buffer Zones (sometimes called riparian buffer areas) are a type of headwater, riparian zone, or riparian strips which interacts with both slope runoff and stream/river water and are usually independent of the surrounding land use. Riparian buffer zones are used to lessen the impacts of surrounding land use on the stream. Can be one of many types including non-vegetated, grass, forest or wetland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Riparian buffer zones"
Riparian strips are areas of trees, shrub and vegetation growth at the riparian ( the boundary area between water and shore under the influence of erosion). These areas may be natural, or engineered for soil stabilization or restoration. Riparian strips are important natural biofilters, protecting aquatic environments from excessive sedimentation, polluted runoff and erosion. They supply shelter and food for many aquatic animals and shade that is an important part of stream temperature regulation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Riparian strips"
Sewage treatment is the process that removes the majority of the contaminants from waste-water or sewage and produces both a liquid effluent suitable for disposal to the natural environment and a sludge. To be effective, sewage must be conveyed to a treatment plant by appropriate pipes and infrastructure and the process itself must be subject to regulation and controls. Other wastewaters require often different and sometimes specialised treatment methods. At the simplest level treatment of sewage and most wastewaters is through separation of solids from liquids, usually be settlement. By progressively converting dissolved material into solid , usually a biological floc and settling this out, an effluent stream of increasing purity is produced. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sewage treatment"
Wastewater is any water that has been adversely affected in quality by any anthropogenic influence. It therefore includes liquid waste discharged from domestic houses, industrial, agricultural or commercial processes. It does not include rain-water uncontaminated by human activities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wastewater"
==Wastewater BOD and COD== ...more on Wikipedia about "Wastewater quality indicators"
A water supply system provides water to the locations that need it. This term has several contexts: ...more on Wikipedia about "Water supply"
A water supply network is a system of engineered hydrologic and hydraulic components, including: ...more on Wikipedia about "Water supply network"
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