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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Water Management I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0683/04
Abbreviation HV I
Course title Water Management I
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Silvie Heviánková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Water and its importance - as a raw material and component environment, renewable and nonrenewable resources, according to the breakdown of water use.
2. Main tasks and problems VH - surplus and shortage of water, causes and possible solutions, the quality of surface waters.
3. Water and water balance, hydrological and other influences.
4. Anthropogenic impacts on the hydrosphere.
5. Water economy of the CR and its comparison with other countries - sources of water (precipitation, evaporation, runoff)
6. Characteristics of water resources and their usefulness. Properties of water systems.
7. The role of reservoirs in water management.
8. Accumulation of water - the purpose, distribution storage tank area, chronological and cumulative number, volume accumulation.
9. Minimum flows in streams - meaning, way of expression, the relations for abstraction of water from streams.
10. Floods, significance, causes, manner of expression, the types of measures.
11. Approaches to water management systems.
12. State administration in the AGM. Expression, consent and authorization, remuneration, fees and fines. Appeals against administrative decisions.

Literature

Water reuse : issues, technologies, and applications / written by Takashi Asano ... [et al.]. - New York : McGraw-Hill, c2007 - xxxviii, 1570 s. : il. ISBN 978-0-07-145927-3

Advised literature

Watershed models / edited by Vijay P. Singh, Donald K. Frevert. - Boca Raton : CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006 - xxiv, 653 s. : il., mapy ISBN 0-8493-3609-0 (váz.)