Evaporation is a unit operation that separates a liquid from solids by means of heat transfer via

vaporization or boiling. Evaporation may be carried out as a batch or continuous process. I think it is for
this reason that it can be applied to water engineering. Water engineering works to solve challenges like
population growth, aging infrastructures and global warming. The process of evaporation, for me, is essential in
developing processes and systems needed to find and preserve sources of freshwater. Even now, evaporation is
considered as an alternative process in an increasing number of wastewater treatment applications. This
lead to the development of wastewater treatment evaporators, which takes advantage of the process of
evaporation in the design of these machineries used in cleaning wastewater. Another important part of the
process of evaporation has in water engineering is on dams, understanding this process helps water
engineers to lessen water loss. Methods like lessening the open surface area of the water or using
windbreaks or putting shade balls on the water were all developed from this process.

Similarly, the infiltration process is also used for more than a hundred years to also treat wastewater.
Methods such as Rapid Infiltration, which is also known as soil aquifer treatment, is one of the three
major land treatment techniques that uses the soil ecosystem to treat wastewater. Soil-aquifer treatment
is, essentially, a low-technology, advanced wastewater treatment system. Infiltration process is also
important when working in flood control, being knowledgeable of the local area can help avoid disasters
from striking. Especially flat planes near rivers, being able to predict what sort of impact the water may
have on the local area can better prepare the citizens.

Being knowledgeable in these two processes also helps in construction of structures on bodies of water
like dams, canals and etc. Such processes need to be taken into account with the design of these
structures.

Both of these natural processes are important in treating wastewater or just overall dirty water more so
than their other uses because, I think they can provide very much needed help in this aspect. The earth has
a set amount of water and 96.5% of it is salt water. If we can reuse the wastewater it would help out a lot,
especially in countries suffering drought.