sanitary engineering
noun
a branch of civil engineering dealing with matters affecting public health, as water supply or sewage disposal.
sanitary engineer
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a word derived from
sanitary engineering.
Example Sentences
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“Gil’s a sanitary engineer, he’s not a biologist,” Viking project manager James S. Martin told The Washington Post in 2000.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2021
“The Civilisation of a People can be measured by their domestic and Sanitary appliances,” the pioneering Victorian sanitary engineer George Jennings wrote in the 1850s.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2018
"There's a train coming and we're standing on the track," said Kelly Frey, sanitary engineer in Ottawa County, just east of Toledo.
From US News ● Aug. 5, 2014
Campaigns to teach people that cancer was not a "shameful" disease and to teach doctors to look for cancers gradually spread over the country under direction of Dr. George Albert Soper, sanitary engineer.
From Time Magazine Archive
On his orders his sanitary engineer, William S. MacHarg, built a water-sterilization plant on the fairgrounds that pumped lake water through a succession of large tanks in which the water was aerated and boiled.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
