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11605
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S1
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| ECTS Credits |
5
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| Workload |
O (21H)/TP(12H)
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| Scientific area |
Hidráulica e Ambiente
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Entry requirements |
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Learning outcomes |
Objectives:
1. To develop the student knowledge on water quality and its impact on environmental quality and public health.
2. Water characteristics evaluation, mainly those related to public health.
3. Water pollution and pollution control.
4. To understand the treatment process of disinfection.
5. To approach the principles of water quality monitoring programmes.
6. Regulations on water quality.
Competences:
(a) Recognition and understanding of the water quality and environment quality concepts versus public health and water conservation concepts.
(b) Recognition and understanding of water quality characteristics impacting on public health (physical, chemical, radiologic, microbiologic and biologic characteristics) and evaluation parameters.
(c) Recognition and understanding of the water pollution control processes.
(d)(e) Recognition and and understanding of water quality monitoring.
(f) Recognition and understanding of water quality standards.
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Syllabus |
1. WATER, ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Water quality vesus protection of public health and environmental quality.
2. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WATER QUALITY IMPACTING PUBLIC HEALTH
Physical, chemical, radiological, microbiological and biological characteristics. Diseases carried by water.
3. WATER POLLUTION CONTROL
Mechanisms of the processes of water quality degradation and recovery.
4. WATER TREATMENT PROCESSES TOWARDS PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTION: DISINFECTION
Water treatment processes aiming pathogens inactivation: type, mechanisms and efficiency.
5. WATER QUALITY MONITORING
Principles for planning water quality monitoring programmes ensuring reliable conclusions and subsequent actions: sampling, lab analyses, data analysis, results discussion.
6. WATER QUALITY CRITERIA
Regulation on water quality for uses impacting on public health.
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Main Bibliography |
1. TCHOBANOUGLOS, G.; BURTON, F. L.; STENSEL, H. D. - Wastewater Engineering Treatment and Reuse. 4th Ed., METCAL&EDDY, McGraw Hill, 2003, 1848 pp.
2. The Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology. Edited by DUNCAN MARA and NIGEL HORAN, Academic Press, London, 2003, 819 pp.
3. FEACHEM, R.; BRADLEY, D.; GARELIK, H; MARA, D. – Sanitation and Disease. Health Aspects of Excreta and Wastewater Management. World Bank Studies in Water Supply and Sanitation 3. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1983, 501pp.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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