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Water Management I

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Course Unit Code546-0683/04
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
HEV01prof. Ing. Silvie Heviánková, Ph.D.
MAL45Ing. Petra Malíková, Ph.D.
Summary
The object content is problems rational dispose of water both in environment
its presence and in its using. Objective is provided bases of common systemic
conception existing problems in water system ,mutual relationships and
connections,i.e. to provide essential methodical analyses and particular
problems solutions of reservoir and other water service structures in
interaction with environment.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The aim of the subject is to become familiar with issues of rational water management, both in the water environment, and with its resources and its use.
Course Contents
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.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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
Neuwirth,A.: Hospodaření s vodou. Učební texty HGF, VŠB-TUO, Ostrava, 2004.
Recommended Reading:
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.)
Patera A.,Votruba L.: Hospodaření s vodou (v nádržích a vodohospodářských
soustavách),ČVUT–FS Praha,1994.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Project work, Other activities
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Exercises evaluation and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        Exercises evaluationCredit33 17
        ExaminationExamination67 18