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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Introduction to Water Management

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0307/03
Abbreviation UVH
Course title Introduction to Water Management
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Hana Škrobánková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1.Water and its importance.
2.Basic terminology, structure and types of water.
3.Hydrosphere, the main negative influences, protection options.
4.Water management development. The concept of water management policy of the CR.
5.Water management. The main basins and basins´ areas.
6.Water legal system - development and current states of legal regulations.
7.Atmospheric waters, surface waters, ground waters, drinking water and mineral waters. Quality requirements.
8.Status of distribution of drinking water. Water needs and consumption.
9.Water treatment. The characteristic of pollutants, the ways of pollution expression. Development and current status of wastewater treatment in Europe, CR. Sewerage.
10.Water structures of CR. Classification by purpose.
11.Stratification, eutrophication,
12.Acidification.
13.Revitalisation of watercourses.
14.Floods. Flood Protection.

Literature

Ministry of agriculture. Water in the Czech Republic, Praha: Consult, 2006. ISBN 80-903482-2-X .
Using Statistical Methods for Water Quality Management: Issues, Problems and Solutions Graham B. McBride, John Wiley, ISBN: 0-471-47016-3 , Hardcover, 344 pages, May 2005.
Water Treatment Made Simple: For Operators Darshan Singh Sarai, ISBN: 0-471-74002-0 , Paperback, John Wiley, 272 pages, November 2005.
Gregory Vogt. The Hydrosphere: Agent of Change.Twenty-First Century Books, 2006. ISBN:0761328394 .

Advised literature

www.epa.gov
Zelenakova, Martina at al. Management of Water Quality and Quantity. Springer-Verlag GmbH. 2019. ISBN: 3030183580 .
Desonie Dana. Hydrosphere. Chelsea House Publishers 2008. ISBN: 9780816062171 .
KRIŠ, Jozef. Water treatment. Ostrava: Montanex, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7225-389-0 .