ABSTRACT
It is not sufficient for a future working environmental engineer to understand the causes and effects of environmental problems in qualitative terms only. He or she must also be able to express the perceived problem and its potential solution in quantitative terms. To do this, environmental engineers must be able to draw on basic sciences such as chemistry, physics, and hydrology (as well as others) to predict the fate of pollutants in the environment and to design effective treatment systems to reduce impact. In this chapter, we discuss fundamental chemistry and basic hydraulics for environmental engineers.
