Introduction, historical background, basic concepts, quantity, quality and pollution of water. Legal framework at the national and international level. Water demand, water uses, quantity and quality dimension, water demand prediction for urban and agricultural uses, water demand management. Economic analysis for water resources. Systems analysis with application to the design and management of water resources systems, optimization of water resources systems, single and multiple criteria optimization. Assessment of theoretical water potential with emphasis on surface waters, hydrologic simulation, rainfall-runoff models, assessment of real water potential for surface waters. Uncertainty quantification, time-series analysis.
- Teacher: Ιωάννης Ναλμπάντης
ECTS : 5
Language : el
Learning Outcomes : Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: • Have understood the critical characteristics of water resource systems and their correlation with the institutional and socioeconomic environment. • Have acquired knowledge of the natural processes in water resource systems, the technical tools for water resource management, as well as how these are used to ensure the harmonization of related projects and measures with the processes of the natural and anthropogenic environment. • Be able, under given conditions, to distinguish and select the most appropriate set of technical tools to ensure the optimal solution, or series of solutions, to a typical problem of designing or operating a water resource system. • Be able to participate in interdisciplinary teams of experts, communicating with engineers of other specialties, but also, more generally, with scientists from other scientific fields. This element is particularly critical in this course.