WATER PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT

12 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

DELIA VENTURA - Module HIDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - AGR/08 - 6 CFU
PIETRO PAOLO FALCIGLIA - Module INGEGNERIA SANITARIA AMBIENTALE - ICAR/03 - 6 CFU

Learning Objectives

HIDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
The course aims to provide knowledge on hydrological processes and the main methods for the sustainable management of water resources. During the lessons, the following topics will be covered: surface and underground hydrology, mass and energy exchanges affecting the continuous soil-plant-atmosphere system, water resource management techniques aimed at water saving, including the deficit irrigation. During the lessons, the possibility of unconventional water reuse in agriculture (e.g. urban wastewater) will be examined; techniques and tools will be introduced for agro-ecosystems monitoring and for the soil water balance evaluation.
INGEGNERIA SANITARIA AMBIENTALE
Basic knowledge on pollution of solid and liquid matrices and engineering solutions.

Course Structure

HIDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Lectures and exercises (in the classroom; seminars) If the teaching is given in mixed or smart mode, the necessary changes can be introduced with respect to what previously stated, in order to comply with the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.

Servizi per le Disabilità e/o i DSA) del nostro Dipartimento, proff. Giovanna Tropea Garzia e Anna De Angelis.

Information for students with disabilities and/or DSA.

As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline. It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis.
INGEGNERIA SANITARIA AMBIENTALE
Teaching will be be carried out in mixed mode or remotely. If same changes will occure, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Detailed Course Content

HIDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Hydrology: The watershed (general characteristics, elements of morphometry, definition of torrent and classifications); Flood hydrology (elements of statistics, pluviometry, surface outflows, estimate of flood flows). Water resource management: Water on earth, the global use of water resources, water footprint, anthropogenic influences on the hydrological cycle; Water in sustainable agriculture (water, agriculture and the environment, climate change); The water needs of crops (analysis of the evapotranspiration process, hints on micro meteorological techniques); New technologies for the estimation of irrigation needs on a farm and district scale; Soil water status (water-soil relationships; hydraulic characterization of soils); Main irrigation methods and deficient irrigation techniques; Water quality for irrigation use (use of reclaimed urban water, contructed wetlands).
INGEGNERIA SANITARIA AMBIENTALE
Environmental issue and law. Natural and antropogenic pollutants. Environmental pollutions. Foundamentals of toxicology, ecology and environmental impact assesments and risk analysis. Contaminant dynamics and remediation of contaminated sites. Remediation treatments of contaminated groundwater. Natural water and wastewater characteristics. Waste management, recycling, composting. Water saving. BOD, natural attenuation. Classification of wastewater treatments. Sludge treatments. Coagulation, settling, biological treatment, disinfection.

Textbook Information

HIDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Vito ferro, McGraw-Hill, 2013 Idraulica e Idrologia per le scienze agrarie, ambientali e forestali

Bagarello e Iovino, Hoepli, 2010 Conducibilità idraulica del suolo

Marcello Mastrorilli, Edagricole Università & Formazione, 2015 L’acqua in agricoltura

Dipartimento di Agricoltura Alimentazione e Ambiente, Supplementary notes distributed during the course
INGEGNERIA SANITARIA AMBIENTALE
1. Vagliasindi F.G.A., Falciglia P.P., Longo G., Roccaro P., Santamaria A., Zito D.. Progettazione di impianti di trattamento per il controllo del rischio ambientale. Edizioni CSISA anno 2012. ISBN: 88-7850-012-7.

2. Luca Bonomo. Bonifica di siti contaminati. Caratterizzazione e tecnologie di risanamento. McGraw-Hill.

3. Luca Bonomo. Trattamenti delle acque reflue. McGraw-Hill.

4. Metcalf & Eddy. Ingegneria delle acque reflue, trattamento e riuso. McGraw-Hill.

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