Many aspects of environmental engineering involve the treatment of water for human consumption and the treatment of wastes prior to their release into the environment. In addition, an understanding of the chemical fate of pollutants in the environment is important. Water chemistry and chemical reactions are therefore important in both engineered treatment processes and in natural systems in which wastes may be attenuated

CILO-1: Apply the knowledge of environmental chemistry including thermodynamics, kinetics, sorption, transport, aquatic equilibrium theories to solve environmental problems. CILO-2: Apply various methods and theories to analyze equilibrium conditions within water chemistry.