Over the course of the past year, the international water agenda raised water quality issues to the forefront, with the need for clean water becoming central to securing the future of human and ecosystem health. This priority has been culminating since the year 2000, as the international community has built a series of objectives and commitments in the name of global sustainable development. Interestingly, while most of the context is hunger and poverty alleviation, the biggest challenge has been to create an awareness that economic health and environmental health are mutually reinforcing, rather than competing goals.
This article originally appeared in the 02/01/2004 issue of Environmental Protection.
Wastewater collection and treatment has developed over at least the past two thousand years, but if you step back and look, it does not seem to have evolved much. Animals do not seem to pay much attention to where they discharge their waste, even if confined to rather small spaces. When in the "wild," animals let the natural environment take care of this issue.
- By William W. Bohnhoff, ASLA
This article originally appeared in the 01/01/2004 issue of Environmental Protection.
If your personal crystal ball is getting foggy, you'd better hang on to this issue of Environmental Protection. (Plus, you'll probably want to steer your fellow environmental professionals to this online version of this issue, if they don't have their own copies.) This month we turn futuristic, offering bold, insightful visions from several leaders in the environmental field about what they see this New Year bringing us.
This article originally appeared in the 01/01/2004 issue of Environmental Protection.
Despite changes in administration and economic and geo-political uncertainties, there continue to be developments in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) programs affecting waste management. This article examines several of those developments.
- By Stephen I. Addlestone, JD
This article originally appeared in the 01/01/2004 issue of Environmental Protection.
Cost-effective engineering has enabled the City of Poteau, Okla., to achieve major savings while undertaking recent upgrades to municipal wastewater treatment facilities. The approach could provide a model for other communities that must stretch their resources in this troubled economy.
This article originally appeared in the 01/01/2004 issue of Environmental Protection.
In 2004, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Supreme Court will again be the primary forces behind water quality trends. For once, predicting the likely course of the Supreme Court may be easier than predicting EPA's course, given that the agency's new administrator had little experience with EPA-related environmental issues as governor of Utah.
This article originally appeared in the 01/01/2004 issue of Environmental Protection.
Imagine that you are in the final stages of constructing a 10-filter water-treatment plant. Startup for the filter control system alone requires the contractor to coordinate with representatives from the valve supplier, actuator supplier, instrument supplier, filter console supplier, the electrician and the integrator to put together a system that is supposed to work as one complete unit.
This article originally appeared in the 01/01/2004 issue of Environmental Protection.
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This article originally appeared in the 01/01/2004 issue of Environmental Protection.
Many skilled senior professionals are finding themselves on their own, seeking employment for the first time after being forced to leave the "safe womb" of an organization that delivered their paycheck each month like clockwork.
This article originally appeared in the 01/01/2004 issue of Environmental Protection.
An overview of the progress automotive manufacturers are making in the reduction of vehicle emissions
This article originally appeared in the 11/01/2003 issue of Environmental Protection.
When the Oneida Indian Nation was expanding its operations from a small bingo/casino facility to a full resort complex, it began professionally designing new nine-hole and 18-hole golf courses. The two courses were initially designed to include both groundwater and public water systems to support their irrigation needs.
This article originally appeared in the 11/01/2003 issue of Environmental Protection.
Our four Facilities of the Year are promoting profitable business practices while creating long-term positive impacts on the environment
This article originally appeared in the 11/01/2003 issue of Environmental Protection.
It is well known that the federal Clean Water Act once focused on chemical pollutants from industrial "point source" discharges. However, the federal statute has evolved into something much broader. How the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) implementation of the statute has changed was summarized in a chart by David G. Davis of EPA in 1998.
- By Clay Burns, Jim Christman
This article originally appeared in the 11/01/2003 issue of Environmental Protection.
Water utilities have been using free chlorine to disinfect drinking water for more than 100 years and have been measuring chlorine residuals for almost as long. Monitoring the product water ensures adequate chlorine is present for disinfection. It also helps the utility prevent taste and odor problems arising from overchlorination.
This article originally appeared in the 11/01/2003 issue of Environmental Protection.
A new stormwater management technology comes to the rescue in controlling pollutants released from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) during periods of heavy precipitation
This article originally appeared in the 11/01/2003 issue of Environmental Protection.
Adding business value takes a strategy, not just tactics
This article originally appeared in the 11/01/2003 issue of Environmental Protection.
A commercially available product is designed to accelerate in situ metals cleanup in groundwater systems.
- By Bryan W. Vigue, Anna Willett, Stephen Koenigsberg
This article originally appeared in the 11/01/2003 issue of Environmental Protection.
This article originally appeared in the 11/01/2003 issue of Environmental Protection.
Confronting business management's awareness of environmental realities
This article originally appeared in the 10/01/2003 issue of Environmental Protection.
Restoration of the Mesopotamian Marshlands will incorporate people as part of the ecology in a project called "Eden Again"
This article originally appeared in the 10/01/2003 issue of Environmental Protection.