Students earning a certificate in Water Quality Management will:<br><br>Be knowledgeable in physical, chemical, and microbiological water quality standards, the impact of discharging organic substances and ammonia into surface and ground waters,<br>Understand lake limnology and the principles of water and wastewater treatment,<br>Be knowledgeable in the carbonate cycle in water and equilibrium chemistry, and<br>Understand the principles of the movement and fate of chemicals and other contaminants in surface and groundwaters.