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Have you ever pondered the infra-structural elements of modern society that make life attractive, convenient, and comfortable? Enjoying spacious and comfortable living in a building, or an underground enclave; driving from a given location to virtually any region in the continent; and having plenty of clean water available for any domestic use we desire are some of the examples that the civil engineering profession offer today. The building is designed by a civil engineer by conveying an array of structural elements that support the architectural spatial distribution. The highway is designed by a civil engineer by creating a plane that adequately supports the weight and stresses of the vehicles in motion and of the centrifugal forces at the curves. The water resources system is designed by a civil engineer that arranges for the water intake at an appropriate source, a water conveyance set that transports the water to a water treatment plant, and a waster distribution network that delivers the sanitized water to the urban user.

Many modern civil engineering works are subtle features we take for granted. Think for a moment about the waste waters no longer needed by the domestic or industrial user. Where do they go? In past centuries they were discarded on the urban streets thus becoming the focus of many diseases. Today the civil engineer designs a waste water disposal and waste water treatment system that drains the used water away from the city user, treats it to stabilize the pathogen-carriers and hazardous organic substances, and safely disposes it into an appropriate recipient without adversely harming the river's natural fauna or flora. How about garbage? Consider the complex problem of disposing vast amounts of solid waste produced by modern consumption society in safe, isolated, and underground systems that would prevent the leaching of dissolved toxic waste from reaching groundwater reservoirs. Many of these large scale facilities constitute solutions to the consequences of today's life style. This is why civil engineers create the quality of life.