Course overview
The aim of this course is to prepare students for professional practice in water resources management. The design, planning and management of water resource systems (either regional or local scale) requires excellent knowledge of hydrology and climate science, water flows, statistics and risk estimation, and a diversity of modelling tools. This course will develop the fundamental understanding as well as the engineering design tools and planning principles to design systems needed to meet the demands of an increasing population and changing climate over the 21st century. The, students will also be given opportunity to get hands-on experience in using industry-standard software applications. The course is offered in a mixed-mode approach encompassing project-based, problem-based and research and investigation approaches.
- Water Resource System Modelling
- Water Resources Planning
Course learning outcomes
- Define, comprehend and apply key concepts/methods, the sustainability framework, supply-demand management, key principles of water sensitive urban design (WSUD) for water harvesting and drought risk assessment for water resource systems design and management
- Define and comprehend the principles of stochastic climate models, and rainfall-runoff models for streamflow estimation under current and future climates
- Apply industry-standard modelling package(s) to undertake the design of a real-world water resource systems using principles of drought risk assessment and stochastic climate modelling to undertake reservoir sizing, identifying operating rules to meet current and future demands by evaluating/optimising for multiple future scenarios
- Comprehend and analyse various aspects of water demands and demand management methods, including water sensitive urban design (WSUD) for urban water demand management, and address complex issues related to water demand and environmental flow management in water resources systems
- Understand and apply multi-criteria decision analysis and economic evaluation of a real-world industry-oriented project relating to water resources management.