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Do civil engineers consistently work closely with the environment?

I'm a high school senior looking into civil engineering, and I want to help conserve natural environments and our resources.

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Civil Engineering is all over the place. You could work on oil wells, build buildings, make traffic flow more smoothly and much more. Or you could develop composing facilities, work on noise control, help clean up the air and much more. For forty years I made dirty water clean. I am a sanitary engineer (licensed civil engineer.) Wastewater treatment has come a long way. Way back when, we cleaned it up…well, pretty good. Now we turn sewage into drinking water. The problem is public perception. The public here in the US is not ready to drink former sewage. They will. Water might be our biggest concern worldwide. In Singapore they understand. They turn wastwater into drinking water, and use it. The rest of us will come around eventually. There may be no choice.

For you and your peers there is much more to do in water conservation, treating air pollution and figuring out what to do with solid waste and, ahem, much more. The problems get more complex. It will be your job to solve them, Ashlyn. Get a move on. We need your help asap.
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