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Master of Science Water Resources and Environmental Management - WREM

WRM6162 Water Resources System and Engineering

Welcome Note

Dear WREM Students:

Welcome to the module: WRM6162 WATER RESOURCES SYSTEM AND ENGINEERING.

We would like to indicate to you the purpose of this module and give you some helpful information and a few hints to complete successfully this module.

This module introduces you to the basic concepts of water resources system and engineering. It deals with the conceptual understanding and design of hydraulics and hydrologic systems. It also includes conceptual understanding and design of urban drainage systems.

Learning involves reading provided notes, books and visiting provided website links, and interacting about them between you and Classmates, between you and your lecturers in the Engagement-Feedback learning environment. This means that you have to raise problems, unclear issues, queries, suggestions and comments so that you get feedback about them from your lecturers or your friends.

However, because of this global pandemic "COVID-19 outbreak", face-to-face classes were suspended and planned to be resumed mid-November 2020. While waiting for resumption, use this opportunity to gain more understanding and essence of the subject, new ways of thinking, and new skills through interaction with module contents, among yourselves, and with us as your instructors.

Therefore, to succeed in this module, be first self-motivated, self-disciplined, and determined. This means that you are completely responsible for establishing and maintaining a regular study system at your home. If you find any missing learning material while surfing on this module homepage or incomplete phrases, statements, or unclear figures or tables, do not hesitate to contact us using our contacts provided at the end under the section "teaching team".

Module contents

Key Units to be covered include:

Unit I - Hydraulics

Unit II - Hydrology

Unit III – Urban Drainage

Learning outcomes

At the end of this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

The principles of hydraulics including: fluids properties, hydrostatics, kinematics, dynamics and momentum equation
Application of hydrostatics and laws of conservation of mass, energy and momentum in design and construction of hydraulic structures
The principle of hydrology including: elements of weather and climate, groundwater and aspect of water measurement
Needs and benefits of urban drainages, its components and design approaches

Learning resources

Lecture notes, textbooks, Journals, and Websites are the main sources for learning:

Core Text Books

CHADWICK A, MORFETT J., BORTHWICK M., 2004, Hydraulics in civil and environmental Engineering, 4^th ed., Spon Press, LONDON.
CHOW, V.T., MAIDMENT, D.R., MAYS, L.W, 1988, Applied hydrology, McGraw Hill, Inc. , SINGAPORE.
Raghunath, H.M., 2006. Hydrology (Principles, Analysis and Design). Revised 2^nd edition, New Age International (P) Limited Publishers, New Dehli. (457 p.).
Ramsar Convention Secretariat, 2010. Water allocation and management, Handbook 10. 4^th edition of the Ramsar Handbooks replaces the series published in 2007.
Shaw, E.M., 1989. Engineering hydrology techniques in practice. Ellis Horwood, 350 p.
Engineering Hydrology, Fourth Edition; E.M. Wilson
FITTS C.R, 2002, Groundwater science, Elsevier Science LTD, LONDON.
Groundwater Science; Charles R.Fitts
Surface and groundwater, weathering, and soils; edited by James I. Drever
Sustainable sewerage-Guidelines for community schemes; R.A.Reed
Water-Resources Engineering; David A. Chin
Van der Griend, A.A, Waterloo, M.J. and Uhlenbrook, S., 2008. Hydrodynamics, surface water hydraulics and catchment rainfall-runoff response analysis, Amsterdam.
WILSON, E. M. (1990). Engineering Hydrology (Fourth Edition), MACMILLAN PRESS LTD, London.