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Water Management

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0479/02
Abbreviation HSV
Course title Water Management
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Tomáš Dvorský, Ph.D. Paed.IGIP

Subject syllabus

1. Water Act - purpose and subject, legal status of water
2. Protection of water conditions and water regime of the landscape
3. Hydrological and water management balance, planning in the field of water
4. Properties and assessment of the state of surface and groundwater, including legislative regulations
5. Water requirement for supplementary irrigation according to ČSN 750434
6. Definition and division of individual types of irrigation
7. Definition of micro-irrigation and its subsequent division and design
8. Division, definition and design of spray irrigation
9. Theoretical principles of underground drainage
10. Function and design of drainage channels
11. Protection of the territory from external waters in the form of dams
12. Design and location of drainage pumping stations
13. Function and design of horizontal drainage

Literature

SEILER, R.L. Irrigation-induced contamination of water, sediment, and biota in the western United States - synthesis of data from the National Irrigation Water Quality Program. Denver: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2003.

Twort C.A.: Water Supply. 2000, London

Advised literature

Irrigation and drainage. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001-. ISSN 1531-0353