102-0474-AAL Introduction to Water Resources Management
| Semester | Spring Semester 2018 |
| Lecturers | P. Burlando, P. Molnar |
| Periodicity | every semester recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Comment | Enrolment ONLY for MSc students with a decree declaring this course unit as an additional admission requirement. Any other students (e.g. incoming exchange students, doctoral students) CANNOT enrol for this course unit. |
| Abstract | The course offers an introduction to the basics of water resources analysis and management covering the topics of water demand vs availability, reservoir design, aquatic physics, water quality and pollution, water resources protection and remediation in rivers, lakes and aquifers, sustainable and integrated water resources management. |
| Learning objective | Introduction to the basics of water resources management based on physical and chemical processes; principle of sustainability. Ability to carry out rough hand calculations. |
| Content | Aquatic physics: flow in rivers, lakes and groundwater bodies Time scales and orders of magnitude River morphology and sediment transport Water quality: Requirements, relevant pollutants, sources and transport of pollutants, Streeter-Phelps equation, thermal pollution Water resources management: Structure of supply and demand, options for closing gap, reservoir design, groundwater storage, intrabasin transfers. Protection of water resources, remediation and renaturalization Variability, sotchastics and risk. Droughts. Sustainability: Definitions, examples for non-sustainable practices Water problems of developing countries, water and agriculture, socio-economic context All aspects are illustrated with examples. The exercises are mainly based on analytical formulae. A few exercises require the use of the computer. |
| Lecture notes | Handouts and ppts |