Historically, the discipline of environmental engineering has centered around public health and sanitation, and its practitioners’ primary objectives have been to provide clean water and properly ...

Environmental engineering combines scientific and engineering principles to improve and maintain the environment in order to protect human health, natural resources, and natural environments.

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Since the dawn of civilization, humans have transformed the environment to accommodate ...