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Semester: | 8th |
Course Type: | Elective |
Course Code: | Ε8221 |
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Hours per Week |
- Lecturing: | 2 |
- Practical/Lab Exersices: | 2 |
Total Hours of Fieldwork Exersice: | 10 |
ERASMUS: | ✘ |
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ECTS: | 4 |
Teaching Units: | 4 |
Prerequisites: | - |
Expected Prior Knowlegde: | Y6202 |
Course Content
The course "Water Resources Management - Vulnerability" is an advanced (specialized) course that deals with issues of "wise" water resource management, pollution, and decontamination of aquifers, the assessment, with various methodologies, of the susceptibility to pollution (vulnerability) of formations hosting groundwater and the assessment of the risk against pollution.
Water Resources Managemen:Basic concepts and definitions related to management. Legislative framework for water resources management in the European Union and Greece. Water resources and water districts of Greece. Water and its relationship with the environment, urban development, energy and sustainable development, spatiotemporal distribution of supply (availability) and demand. Water supply, water demand, water demand management. Combined management of surface and groundwater resources. Water resources management plans. Decision support systems in water resource management problems. Water resources development projects. Processing of used water, desalination.
Vulnerability:The aquatic environment. Fluctuations in the level of surface water and groundwater. Combined water management (in general, parameters of the problem, fundamental principles, general planning of water development); Changes in the quality of water bodies. Water receivers. Anthropogenic burdens on water recipients; Mechanisms for the transfer of pollutants. Mechanisms for dealing with pollutants; The vulnerability of water bodies. Internal and Special Vulnerability. Vulnerability assessment and mapping; Water abstraction protection zones; Greek, European, and Global legislation and practice.
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