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Emergency Conditions and Water Supply Management

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 030-0068/06
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. Water sources - safety and reliability in extreme situations. Purpose and importance of control of water supply processes in extreme situations.
2.General requirements for technical and operational parameters of water supply systems.
3. Water supply systems and their importance for fire protection of buildings. Water supply systems, local water supply systems of towns and municipalities, internal water supply systems, fire water supply systems.
4. Water supply systems - Application possibilities of fire protection of built-up areas. Buildings of civic amenities in towns and municipalities, buildings of private infrastructure of towns and municipalities, scattered and recreational buildings.
5. Legal framework and definition of its purpose for increasing the operability of water works.
6. Water losses in distribution systems. Relationships and examples of solutions for below-limit, limit and above-limit water losses in the distribution system.
7. Monitoring of drinking water distribution networks. Balance zones. Pressure zones and monitoring zones. Influence of monitoring on system management and crisis management.
8. Conception of providing the population and public infrastructure with drinking water in crisis situations.
9. Critical infrastructure. Determination of critical infrastructure elements.
10. Reliability and security of water supply in standard conditions and in crisis situations. Possibilities of infrastructure operation in case of failure of automatic control systems.
11. Threats and risks of lack of drinking water in new climatic conditions. Decommissioning threats - Blackout.
12. Elimination of risks and management of water systems in extreme situations. Methods of reducing risks of interruption of drinking and fire water supply.
13. Crisis management of water supply processes in extreme situations. Crisis plans - creation, essentials. Processing methodology, practical examples. Emergency preparedness plans. Link to crisis management authorities and rescue systems.
14. Excursion.

E-learning

Study support available in the LMS.

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 .