Welcome to the course Freshwater treatment and management!

Freshwater is the planet's most important resource, and it is necessary to sustain life, cultivate food, and generate power. However, today we face many challenges regarding the availability and supply of freshwater. In this course, you will learn about these challenges, and how freshwater ecosystems can be impacted by various factors, such as human activities. You will learn about the hydrological cycle, freshwater quality, pollution sources, and different treatment technologies to produce drinking water.

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Course aim

The objective of this course is to give the students an understanding of the diverse aspects of freshwater systems. The students taking the course will get in-depth knowledge about freshwater quality, pollution sources, the hydrological cycle, freshwater treatment technologies, monitoring, availability, and supply. The course includes historical perspectives of freshwater availability as well as the human impacts of freshwater systems.

Course content

The course will mainly address the following: freshwater management; the hydrological cycle, freshwater quality; monitoring; availability and supply; freshwater treatment technologies for the production of drinking water; historical and future perspectives

Sustainable development goals addressed

Course syllabus

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