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Exploring the Field of Environ Engineering: Safeguarding Our Planet for Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

Combining principles from various scientific disciplines, it addresses some of the most pressing challenges facing our planet, such as pollution, waste management, and climate change. Environmental engineers work on designing and implementing systems that reduce pollution, manage waste, and protect natural resources.

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How do you monitor a tidal river?

Envirotec Magazine

This is because water quality is heavily affected by the state of the tide, which presents a significant monitoring challenge in the lower reaches of many rivers. With a tidal range of up to 7m, the River Thames presents a number of monitoring challenges.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

Cracks in aging and poorly maintained pipes are being inundated , leaving plumbing unable to carry away stormwater and waste. Along the Vermilion River in Illinois, it is seeping into unlined pits containing coal ash — a hazardous waste — and carrying heavy metals into drinking-water aquifers. Pavement is degrading faster.

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Prefab Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre boasts energy- and water-saving design

AGreenLiving

Currently under construction, the Zaha Hadid Architects -designed Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre will soon provide the southern Chinese city with a stunning new hub for contemporary creativity. Waste heat recovery systems will also help reduce water usage. Perforated aluminum panels in the canopy provide external solar shading.

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Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

Grist

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Both Hawaiʻi and Guam have committed to using 100 percent renewable energy by 2045. Some go even further.

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Supervising Environmental Services Specialist

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

We are recruiting to fill one (1) SESS vacancy in the Integrated Waste Management division. Integrated Waste Management Division (IWM). ESD’s Integrated Waste Management (IWM) division leads one of the largest and most aggressive solid waste management systems in the United States through creativity and innovation.

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A massive water recycling proposal could help ease drought

Grist

Lake Mead is at the lowest level it has been at since the Hoover Dam was constructed. Part of the solution, the legislators say, is to fund the construction of more facilities that can recycle the wastewater that flows out of our sinks, toilets, and showers. And the Colorado River has been in a drought for more than two decades.”.

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