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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Emergency Conditions and Water Supply Management

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 030-0068/02
Abbreviation HSŘVH
Course title Emergency Conditions and Water Supply Management
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Fire Protection
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Šárka Kročová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Sense and importance of building of urban, municipal, industrial and fire water supply networks.
2. Definition of major risks and errors in planning, statements and building of distribution networks on the part of operators.
3. The influence of operation of water facilities on the maintenance of potable water quality: distribution reservoirs, water feeders, water mains, water-service pipes
Alternative possibilities of maintenance of water quality, water freshness, secondary possibilities of ensuring the wholesomeness of water.
4. Basic preconditions for increasing the life of water mains and water-service pipes.
5. The influence of uses of individual types of pipe materials on economics and water losses.
6. Water losses in distribution systems
7. Monitoring of potable water distribution networks
8. Balance zones
9. Water pressure zones and monitoring zones
10. High-pressure potable water distribution systems, capacity parameters, advantages, disadvantages, and their risks when used in multi-storey development. Possibilities of combination in emergency supply and firefighting
11. Capacity of fire hydrants, fire discharge pillars and extraction sites at maximum abstractions and effects on the distribution network (examples, solutions)
12. Internal emergency plans of organization, planning, documentation and checking. Plan for hygienic-epidemiologic measures.
13. Integrated Rescue System, capabilities of the System, its management and forms of co-operation in activities with water supply companies.
14. Effects of accidents in water treatment plants and in transfer points on the potable water distribution systems. Application possibilities of solution (short-term, long-term).
15. Coping with extensive accidents associated with a distribution system having an extraordinarily negative effect on the public: accidents associated with water feeders and water mains, accidents associated with water storage, accidents causing a substantial worsening of potable water quality from the point of view of microbiological and chemical properties
16. States of crisis, emergency solutions, application possibilities of ensuring fire safety in the case of source failure, damage to water feeders and networks. Relations and examples of solving in the case of water losses below the limit, limit losses of water, and water losses above the limit in the distribution system. Creation of crisis plans linked to authorities and rescue systems.
17. Concept of provision of the population and public infrastructure with potable water in crisis situations.

Literature

Shammas, N. K., Wang, L. K. Water Engineering: Hydraulics, Distribution, and Treatment. Hoboken: Wiley, 2016. ISBN 978-0-470-39098-6.
Gray, N. F. Water technology: an introduction for environmental scientists and engineers. 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005. ISBN 0-7506-6633-1.
Kroger, W., Zio, E. Vulnerable Systems, Springer, 2011. ISBN 978-0-85729-655-9 .
Ghebrekidan, A. Principles of Urban – Regional Planning and Development. University of Juba, 2018. ISBN: 9 789970 445851 .

Advised literature

Bartram, J., Corrales, L., Davison, A., Deere, D., Drury, D., Gordon, B., Howard, G., Rinehold, A., Stevens, M. Water safety plan manual: spet-by-step risk management for drinking water suppliers. World Health Organisation. Geneva, 2009. ISBN: 978 92 4 156263 8 .