Water Supply and Sanitation

After successfully completing this specialization, graduates will be able to:

• Understand the structure of drinking water supply systems, including water transport, treatment and distribution;
• Understand water quality criteria and standards, and their relation to public health, environmental urban water cycle;
• Understand physical, chemical and biological phenomena, and their mutual relationships, occurring within water supply systems;
Understand water quality concepts and their effect on treatment process selection;
• Understand the interaction of water quality and the materials being used;
• Understand Hydraulic concepts and their relationship to water transport in treatment plants, pipelines and distribution networks;
• Understand the importance and methods of operation and maintenance of water supply systems;
• Identify options for centralized and urban systems versus decentralized and rural systems;
• Define and evaluate project alternatives on basis of chosen selection criteria;
• Understand water supply engineering within a watershed context;
• Design and rehabilitate raw water abstraction, transport, treatment and distribution process and systems;
• Use modeling tools for simulation, prediction of performance and operation of water supply system components;
• Communicate effectively in oral and written presentations to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Understand the structure of drinking water supply systems, including water transport, treatment and distribution;
• Understand water quality criteria and standards, and their relation to public health, environment and urban water cycle;
• Understand physical, chemical and biological phenomena and their mutual relationships, within water supply systems;
• Understand water quality concepts and their effect on treatment process selection;
• Understand the interaction of water quality and materials applied;
• Understand hydraulic concepts and their relationship to water transport in treatment plants, pipelines and distribution networks; and
• Understand Flow through hydraulic structures and unit process

Methods, Techniques and Tools

• Design and to rehabilitate raw water abstraction, transport, treatment and distribution processes and systems;
• Understand the importance and methods for operation and maintenance of water supply systems;
• Understand options for centralized and urban systems versus decentralized and rural systems;

Analysis, Synthesis and Integration

• Define and evaluate project alternatives on basis of chosen selection criteria;
• Use statistical and modeling tools for simulating, prediction of performance and operation of water supply system components;
• Understand water supply engineering within a watershed context

Research

• Conduct independent research, including formulation of hypotheses, selection and application of research methodologies, and the formulation of conclusions and recommendations;

General Academic Skills

• Possess the learning skills to acquire continual knowledge in an independent manner;
• Communicate effectively in oral and written presentations to technical and non-technical audiences.

Admission Requirement

• Applicants must have degree in any of the following: civil engineering, environmental engineering, water resources engineering, and water supply engineering or other related areas of engineering from a recognized university,
• Applicants will be required to take and successfully pass an entrance examination,
• Applicants must meet the general admission policies of the University.