Code: 144WSE Drinking Water Management
Lecturer: Ing. Kateřina Slavíčková Ph.D. Weekly load: 2P Completion: EX
Department: 11144 Credits: 2 Semester: W
Description:
Water treatment and water supply
Contents:
Water supply in the Czech Republic, in Prague.
Water supply in the countries / in regions from them the students come. - Assignment of student work.
Water sources ? groundwater sources and surface water sources (abstraction and intake objects, water quality)
Chemistry, microbiology and biology of water (significance of characteristics of water, standards)
History of water treatment, processes of drinking water treatment, water treatment plants
Surface water treatment ? screening, pre oxidation, sedimentation, clarification, dissolved air flotation, filtration, adsorption, stabilisation, disinfection
Groundwater treatment ? removal of CO2, iron and manganese, disinfection, filtration
Water demand, disproportion in water demand, leakage of water.
Storage Necessary. Pressure zones.
Pumps and pumping stations
Distribution of water.
Design of water distribution systems.
Materials of pipe system.
Construction and maintenance of distribution systems
Seminar contents:
The subject has no exercise.
Recommended literature:
1. R. K. Linsley, J.B. Franzini: Water-Resources Engineering, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York
2. E.W.Steel, T.J.McGhee: Water Supply and Sewage, fifth edition, McGraw-Hill International Edition
Keywords:
Water supply, drinking water, distribution system, water demand, water lossees, storage tank, design of water distribution system

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