WATER PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT

Academic Year 2017/2018 - 3° Year - Curriculum Tutela e valorizzazione del territorio

Learning Objectives

• Hydrology and Water Resources Management

  To provide the main concepts on surface hydrology and water resources management in agriculture

• Sanitary and Environmental Engineering

  To give scientific knowledge concerning the pollution of water, soil and air and to provide technical and scientific measures to prevent, monitor and mitigate the environmental pollution.

Detailed Course Content

• Hydrology and Water Resources Management

  Hydrology and Water Resources Management

  Hydrology:.Elements for the characterization of the hydrological basin in different climatic contexts; drought and flood hydrological analysis; study of the surface runoff using the SCS method; Hydrological soil characterization; Analysis of water and energy exchange processes in the soil-plant-atmosphere system; Water Resources Management: Study of the evapotranspiration processes related to soil hydrology. Remote sensing techniques applied to map crop evapotranspiration and vegetation indices; Use of the geophysical tomografy for the analysis of soil water dynamics. Planning of natural water resources, which integrates the use of unconventional water (treated urban wastewater, salt water, etc…) within water scarce contexts; wastewater reuse in agriculture; analysis of deficit irrigation criteria.

• Sanitary and Environmental Engineering

  Environmental legislation. Fundamental of urban solid waste management. Pollution and environmental issues. Mass balance. Toxicology and risk analysis. Characterization of natural, drinking and wastewaters. Natural degradation. Water safety plan. Classification of wastewater treatment processes. Fundamentals of water treatment processes.

Textbook Information

• Hydrology and Water Resources Management

  McGraw-Hill, 2013	Idraulica e Idrologia per le scienze agrarie, ambientali e forestali	Vito ferro
  Hoepli, 2010	Conducibilità idraulica del suolo	Bagarello e Iovino
  Edagricole Università & Formazione, 2015	L’acqua in agricoltura	Marcello Mastrorilli
  Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente	Dispense distribuite durante il corso	Consoli Simona

• Sanitary and Environmental Engineering

  Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse 4th Edition, Metcalf & Eddy Inc.