Course Objectives

The course provides the students with competence to manage technical conditions within water supplies, purification of waste water and management of waste. They will become acquainted with drinking water regulations, learn about the treatment of drinking water, and how to make safety zones for drinking water supplies. They will also learn how to purify wastewater and dimensioning and forming of water cleaning facilities. both traditional technical and nature-based facilities. They will learn how to manage waste in relation to waste-sorting and waste-depositing. They will learn how to manage ground pollution from old waste deposits.

Course Description

Important themes:

• Drinking water regulations
• Management of drinking water
• Drinking water facilities
• Securing of water sources
• Mechanical, chemical and biological purification facilities
• Nature-based purification facilities
• Management of waste
• Sorting waste
• Operation of waste dumps
• Surveillance of pollution from waste dumps
• Risk evaluation

Learning Methods

60 hours of lectures and exercises
Obligatory: 3 days of field trips

Assessment Methods

Grades will be given for the two part-exams: a mid-term examination (3 hours) counts for 50% and a final examination (3 hours) counts for 50% of the final grade. All the part-exams must achieve passing marks. Before students can take the final exam the following must be approved: group project on drinking water quality and report from the laboratory exercises. If a student has documented absence from the group exercises these may be done individually.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean