Water Resources Assessment
Dates, Fee, ECTS
Start: 06 March 2017
End: 24 March 2017
Deadline IHE application: 06 February 2017 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2850
Learning objectives
Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Describe different types of water resources data, generated from ground and RS measurements.
- Apply diverse methods of data processing and data validation for water resources assessment.
- Quantify the different components of the water resources spectrum (rainfall, river flow, groundwater), and assess availability and access at different scales.
- Describe and apply different methods of water quality monitoring and assessment.
- Analyse and quantify multiple uses of water for: agriculture, hydropower, domestic, environment and other uses
- Apply water accounting techniques as a quick method for assessing water resources, water use, and water productivity in a river basin context.
Course content
The content of the module includes three main courses:
1. Water resources assessment: - Water Resources data: Different types of water resources data, monitoring, validation, archiving, and dissemination, and a review of a WRA case study. - Surface water resources assessment: time series analysis of WR data, including: flow duration curves, statistical distribution and trend analysis, extreme value analysis (floods and droughts). - Groundwater resources assessment: assessment of aquifer hydraulic properties and areal extent, recharge and discharge, sustainable yield, and groundwater abstraction. - Water quality monitoring and assessment: requirements for WQ assessment; WQ parameters; WQ monitoring program; Pollution; WQ assessment. - Estimation of water resources data in un-gauged basins and regionalization.
2. Water using activities: Agricultural water demand, crop water requirement, net irrigation requirement, yield analysis, domestic water use, hydropower water demand, environmental water requirement.
3. Water accounting: Introduction to remote sensing data for water resources applications; Satellite image processing; Catchment water balance in GIS environment; Water productivity and water valuation; Water accounting. The learning activities include lectures and workshops in class, exercises and tutorial, and a field visit to WaterNet (Amsterdam).