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What Do Environmental Engineers Do?
- Environmental engineers work to protect and manage our air, water, and energy resources.
- They measure, quantify and analyze the environmental changes that inevitably result from human endeavors.
- They design strategies to remediate problems, minimize impacts, and measurably improve environmental quality.
- Environmental engineers focus on developing devices, techniques and solutions that can effectively address a variety of real-world environmental problems.
- Environmental engineers achieve their aims by the utilization and conversion of the many energy resources that surround us - the fossil fuels and the renewable energies.
- There is a growing awareness that the quality of life must be balanced by the conservation of these resources and the protection of the environment.
- Environmental engineers understand this balance and seek to harness energy resources in an environmentally friendly manner.