Fundamentals of Water, Air, and Land Pollution

3 credits · Graduate Programs

Water and air quality, clean water and air acts, drinking water criteria, common water and air pollutants and their impacts on human and ecological health; water energy nexus - inter-relationships between the two; water and energy conservation; water use in energy and mining industries; options for water reclamation and reuse; fundamentals of water and wastewater treatment; acid rain, particulates, SOx, NOx, urban/photochemical smog, tropospheric ozone and its depletion, CFCs; greenhouse gases and global warming, greenhouse gas effects, climate change, GHGs trends, negative effects of GHGs; introduction to multi-media contaminant transport and contaminated sites; introduction to risk assessment. Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Sustainable Energy Development Program.