Water: an essential resource
Learn about water protection, treatment, and sustainable management for human health and development.
Learn about water protection, treatment, and sustainable management for human health and development.
This MOOC, offered by Politecnico di Milano, focuses on the importance of water as an essential resource and the challenges of protecting it from chemical and microbiological hazards. The course covers water quality, protection and remediation, sustainable drinking water production, online monitoring, and advanced computing for process control. It emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach, combining chemistry, environmental engineering, and ICT to address water-related issues. The course also explores behavioral aspects of water consumption and introduces design thinking approaches to support sustainable water use.
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What you'll learn
Understand the challenges of protecting water from chemical and microbiological hazards
Learn about contamination sources, emerging contaminants, and risk assessment in water management
Explore sustainable drinking water production technologies and groundwater remediation techniques
Understand the role of advanced monitoring and sensors in water quality management
Gain insights into big data applications and computational modeling in water treatment
Develop awareness of behavioral aspects in water consumption and sustainable use
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3 quizzes
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There are 3 modules in this course
This course provides a comprehensive overview of water as an essential resource, focusing on its protection, treatment, and sustainable management. The curriculum is divided into three modules covering the anthropic water cycle, water treatments, and big data and advanced computing in water management. Students will learn about contamination sources, emerging contaminants, risk assessment, and drinking water quality. The course also covers groundwater remediation, sustainable drinking water production technologies, and new eco-designed materials for water treatment. Additionally, it explores advanced monitoring techniques, sensors for water quality and quantity monitoring, and computational fluid dynamics for reactor modeling. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on the multidisciplinary nature of water management, integrating aspects of chemistry, environmental engineering, and information technology to address current and future challenges in water resource management.
The anthropic water cycle
Module 1 · 1 Hours to complete
Water treatments
Module 2 · 1 Hours to complete
Big data and advanced computing
Module 3 · 1 Hours to complete
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Associate Professor
An Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, DICA since 2017, with the Scientific National Qualification for Full Professor since 2020, she obtained her PhD in Environmental Engineering in 2000. In 2011, she was a visiting scholar at Duke University, CEINT, North Carolina (USA). Since 2012, she has been responsible for the "Water Treatment" course and has been a member of the Faculty Board of the PhD program in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering since 2019. Her research focuses on the entire water cycle, from source water to potable water, wastewater, and reuse, aiming to develop innovative concepts that integrate human activities with the environment. Her work emphasizes technologies such as disinfection, adsorption, and advanced oxidation processes, as well as modeling techniques to assess fate and risk in order to protect ecosystems and human health. She is actively involved in working groups focused on contaminants of emerging concern and pathogen control. She is the co-author of over 170 scientific publications, with 71 papers indexed in Scopus, 1,320 citations, and an H-index of 22 (as of December 2022). She also holds 2 patents.
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