Water: an essential resource
Learn about water protection, treatment, and sustainable management for human health and development.
Course Cost
₹ 2,699
Beginner
Skill Level
3 Hours
Self-paced lessons
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.
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
Understand the connection between water management and sustainable development goals
Skills you'll gain
This course includes:
117 Minutes PreRecorded video
3 quizzes
Access on Mobile, Tablet, Desktop
FullTime access
Shareable certificate

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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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