From 2006-02-13 to 2006-03-03

Venue: Delft, The Netherlands

Summary:

The objective of this course is to acquaint participants with the principles, techniques and management issues related to water quality description, monitoring and assessment.

This three week course will focus on:
• water quality and its monitoring: natural water quality and water pollution; the design and optimization of water quality monitoring programmes; physico-chemical and biological water quality assessments; groundwater quality monitoring
• data analysis and presentation: descriptive statistics; statistical testing; using significance levels in water quality monitoring; regression analysis
• aquatic ecotoxicology: Environmental characteristics of pollutants; sources, transport and fates; modelling; risk assessment
• water quality modelling: modelling BOD/DO in a river system using the SOBEK model; modelling the Danube river water quality; case studies and hands-on computer exercises
• fieldwork water quality monitoring: water and sediment sampling; storage and preservation methods; field measurements.

Organizers: UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
Contact Name: P. Kelderman, PhD, MSc
E-mail: p.kelderman@unesco-ihe.org
URL: http://www.unesco-ihe.org/vmp/articles/Short-Courses/SHO-ER-WE-WQA.html