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Water Resources & IrrigationCourse Objectives:
By the end of this course the participants should be:
- Gain a deeper understanding of water resources, specifically the global water cycle.
- Enhance the participants understanding to the water crisis at national and global levels.
- Develop the required skills to plan, implement, and manage water projects.
- Increase participants’ awareness of the importance of achieving the balance of water management.
- Enhance the participants’ knowledge about climate change and its impact on water resources and the following adaptation measures.
- Acquire knowledge of water reuse, water conservation, and water demand management.
Integrated Water Resources Management
- Environmental Sustainability -Managing the System logical Units – Water as Human Right
- Concept of Economic – Value of Water Measurement for Implementation – Options for Implementation
- Water Needs versus Water Demand – Introduction to Engineering Water Shed Hydrology
- Frequency Analysis- Precipitations Losses – Guide for the use of the Decision Support System (DSS)
- Highway Hydrology -Peak Discharge Estimation Methods – Geospatial Hydrologic
- Modeling Extension – Tropical Rain Fall Measuring Mission – Digital Evaluation Model Based Water Shed and Stream Network Delineation – Flood Routing
- Urban Hydrology for Small Water Sheds – GIS Tools for Support of HEC-RAS using Arc GIS
Flash Flood Management from theory to Practice
- Integrated Water Resources Management – Flash Floods management
- GIS Application in Hydrology – Precipitation and Design Storm
- Hydrologic Analysis – Estimation of the Sediment Load – Hydrologic Modeling
- Rainfall Forecasting and Remote Sensing – Hydrologic Modeling – Field Trip
- Flood Protection Structures – Water Harvesting – Hydrologic Modeling
- Geotechnical aspects of Flash Flood Management – Hydrologic Modeling
Water Structures and Environmental Impact Assessment
- Review of Open Channel Hydraulics – Design of Canals and Drains
- Dams (Design, Modeling, and Construction) – Barrages (Design, Modeling, and Construction)
- Regulators (Design, modeling, and Construction)
- Environmental Impact Assessment of Water structures
- Locks (Design, Modeling, and Construction) – Offtakes (Design, Modeling, and Construction)
- Culverts (Design, Modeling, and Construction) – Syphons (Design, Modeling, and Construction)
- Short Span Bridges – Escapes (Intermediate and Tail Escapes) – Weirs (Design, Modeling, and Construction)
- Pipe Systems Hydraulics – Pipelines and Pipe Networks – Pumping Stations
Conventional and Nonconventional Water Resources
- Conventional & Non-Conventional Water Resources -An Overview: Watershed
- Characteristics – Application for Catchment Delineation Workflow
- Flood Control and Flood Management – Tools for Flood Modeling and Flood Mapping -Flood
- Frequency Analysis – Frequency Software – Application on Flood Control
- An Overview of Rainfall Harvesting – Agricultural Approach for Rainwater Harvesting –
- Rainfall Analysis – Design of Rainfall Harvesting Facility – Dimensioning of Rainfall Harvesting Facility
- Fundamentals of Groundwater Flow – Groundwater Flow Equations and Flow to Wells – Groundwater Monitoring and Well Drilling – Wells Design
- Desalination technology & Cloud seeding
- Reuse of Waste water – Reuse of Drainage Water
- Environmental Impact of Water Resources Projects Application
Water Transboundary Issues
- Water Transboundary Definition
- International Agreements and Laws
- Transboundary Aquifers – Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary Waters
- Water Conflicts between Countries- -Institutions and Tools for Cooperation – Instruments and Areas for Action-
- Riparian Rights International Law – Water Sharing Law Definition
- Experiences from around the world
Hydrological Modeling of Drainage Basins
- Drainge Basins and Watersheds (Hydrologic cycle)
- Drainge Basins
- Drainge Basins Characteristics
- Analysis and calculation of drainage basins Characteristics
- Applications
Monitoring and Modeling of Water Quality
- Introduction to WQ Monitoring & Physical meaning of the water quality data
- Methods of quality assurance and quality control – Regulations & standards for various water use purpose
- Design of water quality monitoring programs
- WQ data interpretation, reporting and prediction
- Statics in water quality monitoring
Water Crisis Management
- Concepts of Crisis Management – Classification of Crisis – Crisis Management Approaches and Disasters Management Approaches
- Types of Water Crisis – Management of Water Crisis – Monitoring of the Crisis Stages
- The Importance of Information in Crisis Management – Forecasting of Water Crisis
- Early Warning Systems in Water Field – Proactive Behavior Against Expected Water Crisis -Decision-Making Theories
- The Importance of Planning in Crisis Management – Building Scenarios – EIA of Water Crisis