Water Supply Engineering

Week 1 : Introduction: General outline of water supply; Water availability and uses; Temporal and spatial distribution; Key issues and concerns; Features and elements of a water distribution systems Week 2 :Water Demand: Concept of water demand; Estimation of water demand; Factors affecting demand; Components of demand; Demand fluctuations; Demand forecasting; Population forecasting methodsWeek 3 : Water Intake: Intake of water; Types of intake; Intake Structures; Conveyance and intake conduits; Free flow and Pressure flow systems; Pumps and their capacity estimation; Economic diameter of water supply pipesWeek 4 : Treatment Philosophy: Storage structures, Reservoir designing, Storage Capacity of Distribution Reservoirs; Mass curve concepts; Design considerations for hourly, daily, weekly and seasonal regulation;Week 5 : Water Quality and Treatment:Water quality assurance; Water quality standards; Philosophy of treatment; Unit operations and unit processes; Theory and operations ofaeration, sedimentationWeek 6 : Conventional Water Treatment: Coagulation and flocculation; Clariflocculation; Filtration: Slow and rapid gravity filter, multi-media filters and pressure filtersWeek 7 : Water Treatment: Disinfection and Advanced Treatment: Disinfection through chlorination and other methods; Advanced methods of water treatment; Advanced oxidation processes; Removal of iron and manganese, hardness, fluorides, colour, taste and odour, dissolved metals and gases.Week 8 : Water Distribution Networks: Water Distribution; Hydraulics of pipe network design; Layouts of Distribution Network; Pipe network analysis; Hardy Cross methodWeek 9 : Water Losses and Control: Water-losses in water supply systems; Concepts of NRW and UFW; Apparent and real losses; water loss detection methods; water lossesreduction strategiesWeek 10 : Advanced Water Distribution Design Approaches: Sectorization of distribution networks; DMA Demarcation; Advantagesand risks; Software for network design (WaterGEMS and EPANET)Week 11 : Automation in Water Supply: Automation in water supply; Real time monitoring and control; SCADA; Case studies of WTP automation; Automation in distribution systems; Concept of Smart Water Supply System for India citiesWeek 12 : Water Economics and Pricing: Economics of water supply systems; Calculation of investments and operational costs; Cost optimization; Approaches of water metering; Water pricing for sustainability; Pricing water in context to Indian cities; Issues and approaches; Existing water pricing models; Case studies