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Introduction to Water Management

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 546-0307/08
Abbreviation UVH
Course title Introduction to Water Management
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Silvie Drabinová, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Water and its basic physical and chemical properties, group states, water cycle in nature.
2. Natural waters, atmospheric, surface, ground, mineral, marine and their basic characteristics.
3. Drinking and service waters, quantity and quality requirements, balance of needs.
4. Wastewater, sewage, industrial, mining and their characteristics.
5. Watercourses and objects on watercourses
6. Rainwater, water balance, water pollution.
7. Water supply, abstraction, transport, storage and drinking water supply.
8. Water treatment, overview of basic processes and equipment for surface and groundwater treatment.
9. Wastewater and stormwater drainage - sewerage.
10. Wastewater treatment, an overview of basic processes and equipment at wastewater treatment plants.
11. Organisation and management of water management in the Czech Republic, overview of basic statistical data.
12. Floods and droughts. Flood protection and drought mitigation.
13. Water management legislation - Water Act and Water Supply and Sewerage Act, implementing regulations to the Act.

Povinná literatura

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 .