Determining Solutions to Water Resources Needs and Problems thru Water Resource Technology Module 3: Ground Water Flow
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The world’s water resources are facing the ever-growing threats and challenges posed by population increase, rapid urbanization and adverse land-use shifts, pollution of waterways and aquifers, weather uncertainties, climate change and the increasing competition among various users of water. The important tasks that are assigned to engineers, scientists, planners and decision makers for the provision of water infrastructure and services are multifarious , including the assessment of the water resources in the hydrologic cycle, the quantification of the water-related needs and corresponding threats or risks, and the identification and formulation of appropriate responses to these threats and needs. To be able to do these tasks, the professionals have to be equipped with the fundamentals of hydrology and hydraulics.
These subjects are prerequisites to the understanding of the hydrological and hydraulic processes and phenomena, as well as in developing design tools to determine solutions to water resources needs and problems.
COURSE OUTLINE
Module 3: Groundwater Flow (May 12-14; 8AM to 5PM) Course Objectives: • To have acquire knowledge of the properties of sub-surface water • To understand the principles of groundwater movement and groundwater flow systems
Course Outline 1. Introduction to Subsurface Water (1 h lecture, 1 h workshop) 2. Properties of Aquifer (2 h lecture, 2 h workshop) 3. Principles of Groundwater Flow (2 h lecture, 2 h workshop) 4. Soil Moisture and Groundwater Recharge (2 h lecture, 2 h workshop) 5. Groundwater Flow to Wells (2 h lecture, 2 h workshop) 6. Groundwater Flow Systems (1 h lecture, 1 h workshop
TARGET PARTICIPANTS
Scientists, engineers and technologists interested and/or involved in water resources analysis, infrastructure design, evaluation and planning
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
Lectures, demonstrations, computer-aided calculations, simulations and laboratory exercises will be used in the training course.