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Students specializing in water will have knowledge to supply adequate quantities and quality of water for human use and the environment.
Water resources focuses on water allocation and supplies. This includes ground water, streams, lakes, reservoirs, and water storage facilities.
There are complex rules that govern water rights, particularly in the State of Colorado.
Water treatments focuses on the quality of the water, and ensuring that it is suitable for selected uses. For example, designing drinking water treatment facilities to supply potable water to cities. Drinking water treatment can also include decentralized approaches such as point-of-use treatment at the wellhead for an individual family or on-tap filters. Environmental engineers specializing in water can also design wastewater treatment facilities to treat water after human use so that it can be returned to surface water or groundwater without negatively impacting the ecology and downstream users. Water can also be treated to enable reuse for irrigation. Industrial wastewater also requires treatment. Water distribution and sewer collection pipelines must also be designed.
Many of the older generation working in this area have degrees in Civil Engineering.
Jobs in this area include:
water quality characterization by collecting samples of groundwater, surface water, and wastewater
working with regulatory agencies to determine appropriate water quality for human consumption, ecology, etc.
designing facilities to treat water and wastewater; these can include chemical, biological, and phyical methods
using modeling software to predict water treatment effectiveness of various processes
OPTION COURSES
Students select a minimum of 9 credits from among the following courses:
CVEN 3424 Water and Wastewater Treatment, focusing on municipal systems
CVEN 3323 Hydraulic Engineering
CVEN 4343 Open Channel Hydraulics
CVEN 5393 Water Resources Development and Management
MCEN 4228 Environmental Modeling
CVEN 4474 Hazardous and Industrial Waste Management, focusing on groundwater remediation and industrial wastewater treatment
GEOG 4501 Water Resources and Water Management in the Western US
Research: Professor Summers and the Center for Drinking Water Optimization
Research: Professor Linden and UV treatment, water reuse, etc.
Companies that Specialize in Water Resources and Treatment:
CH2M Hill, rated top Environmental firm by Engineering News Record, 2007
Hazen and Sawyer, consultants
URS Corp, consultants
Montgomery, Watson, Harza, consultants
Black & Veatch, consultants
CDM, consultants
Siemens
Arcadis, consultants
LINKS
American Water Works Association (AWWA)
Water Environment Federation
Wikipedia Environmental Remediation article
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