Water seeks its own level…

Water seeks its own level…
I finished engineering from a University that was very involved in hydrological research, considering that the biggest challenge of the City, where my university is situated is painfully challenged by sea water intrusion, towards inland, due to increasing draw down of water from the ground by deep well pumps. This city in the orient is well known as a tourists vacation spot due to its nice beaches and coast lines, but the main source of its water is by deep-well pumping. It seems that some engineers are toying the idea of drawing large volume of water from the ground in another city, without doing a thorough hydrological research of the state of the water level in the area. Take note that, as an engineer and man of science (for our engineers at the city waterworks and engineering office) that, we know that water always seeks its own level. Where the ground water is displaced, the sea water will always have the tendency to seep and replace the water that has been drawn. Are we prepared to use now salty water? Why not draw directly from the sea , if that’s what we are aiming for? That’s a lot of desalination work to do of course. I think, every city and locality should look carefully into the matter, before a decision is made to increase the pumping of water from the ground, especially for the low lying areas, relative to the sea level.
Written by: Sanoy Suerte, RME/MBM; http://www.linkedin.com/in/sannysuerte ; http://Viralnetworks.com/a/28285 ; http://www.sncgroup-sany.ws/home
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Scientific methods!

Scientific methods!
Why should we approach each engineering problem scientifically and support our solutions with scientific findings? Doing so, will help us avoid the cut and try method, which have often plagued the industry, due to the incompetent ideas of many practicing professionals, who over a long period of time have failed to update themselves, and had stagnated. Many individuals continue to carry with them the childish attitude of throwing their books away after school and get out to the world to play without the facts and figures and proven principles taught in school. The justification? School and practice is entirely alien from each other. Theories don’t agree with experience. Well, my experience is different in my 30 years of engineering and management experience, not to add my doctoral studies. Whenever there is conflict between field practices and theory, chances are, we only see it as such, because we have not thoroughly understood and digested our theory and its conditional requirements or assumptions. Watch always that conflict, and try to check, where the fault line is located, and you will always end up more wiser and more experienced. Review therefore your knowledge of scientific methods of questioning and hypothesis testing.
Written by: Sanoy Suerte, RME/MBM; http://www.linkedin.com/in/sannysuerte ; http://Viralnetworks.com/a/28285 ; http://www.sncgroup-sany.ws