Environmental engineering is a branch or basic area of civil engineering, which deals with water supply, disposal of waste water generated from domestic and industrial use and environmental pollution control.
Human activities
are responsible for rapid degradation of our environment. Human activities in the
form of, industries, vehicles etc. are responsible for generating huge solid, liquid
and gaseous wastes which causes degradation of our environment. These wastes need
to be treated, so that the environmental balance is maintained. Environmental engineering
deals with resources, their pollution, pollution control, reuse of waste, design,
construction, operation and maintenance of treatment plants etc.
Hence to maintain
the ecological balance and to treat the waste Environmental Engineering is important.
- After this treatment, it passes through sand filter and chlorine dose is added to kill the bacteria. In this way water is treated and made potable and then supplied by the network of pipes to the people.
- Thus the water supply and treatment of water supply comes under the part of environmental engineering.
- If waste remains around the domestic area, then various diseases will spread. - Therefore, wastewater in the big cities is carried away by network of pipelines called as sewers and treated further and is made harmless.
- Due to ever increasing population all over the world, deforestation for more space on earth, industrialization and urbanization, lot of pollution problems such as air pollution, water pollution, land pollution and thermal pollution are created.
