Drinking Water Management

Annotation of lectures:

  • Water resources, quality of raw water
  • Drinking water treatment, water treatment plant
  • Treatment of raw groundwater
  • Treatment of raw surface water – mechanical pre-treatment, pre-oxidation, disinfection
  • Treatment of raw surface water – clarification, flotation
  • Treatment of raw surface water – filtration, adsorption, stabilization, membrane processes, sludge management
  • Water Demand – calculation, irregularity, leakage of water
  • Pumps and pumping stations
  • Water tanks – properties, design parameters, pressure zones
  • Water distribution pipe system – shape and design parameters
  • Water distribution pipe system – pipeline material and fittings
  • Water distribution pipe system - construction and maintenance

Recommended literature:

[1] TWORT, A. C., RATNAYAKA, D. D., BRANDT, M. J.: WATER SUPPLY, 5th edition, Arnold and IWA Publishing, London, 2000
[2] E.W.Steel, T.J.McGhee: Water Supply and Sewage, fifth edition, McGraw-Hill International Edition