Water Pollution Clean Up --Healthy water is important for humans as well as for the environment. Can you design a water filter to remove pollutants?
- Water Pollution Clean Up:
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- Dream Big - Quenching A Thirsty World: Water Engineering
. Learn how engineers are finding innovative ways to provide clean water.
- Dream Big - Water Wishes: Engineering for Those in Need
. Many communities around the world lack clean water. See how humanitarian engineering involving college students brings clean water to a village in Peru.
- Learn about historic civil engineering icons in the area of water treatment:
- The Lawrence Experimental Station
. Completed in 1886, this was a pioneer engineering laboratory dedicated to research on the treatment of water supply, sewage and industrial waste and has been recognized nationally and internationally for contributions to the environmental engineering field.
- The Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewage Treatment Plant
. Completed in 1925. Before 1925, sewage from Milwaukee and its suburbs was released directly into local rivers which flowed through the city of Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant is America's earliest large-scale activated sludge type municipal sewage treatment plant - a major improvement on contemporary methods.
- Meet some historic engineers who worked in water treatment:
- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
(1842-1911) Ellen Richards was the first woman to graduate from MIT, a pioneer in the fields of sanitary engineering and public health, and the founder of euthenics (the study of human functioning and well being by improvement of living conditions) and home economics.
- Abel Wolman
(1892-1989) Abel Wolman combined engineering with public health and hygiene into the field that came to be known as sanitary engineering. He developed globally implemented procedures for water and sewage chlorination and disinfection, and influenced federal policy concerning water pollution control and management.