030-0917/02 – Protection of Water Supply and Sewerage Infrastructure (OVHI)
Gurantor department | Department of Fire Protection | Credits | 10 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Šárka Kročová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Šárka Kročová, Ph.D. |
Study level | postgraduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | | Semester | winter + summer |
| | Study language | English |
Year of introduction | 2009/2010 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | FAST, FBI | Intended for study types | Doctoral |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
In the area of crisis management, the protection of water management infrastructure is one of the most important activities of each state. On the methods and possibilities of its protection, other possibilities of operation of public infrastructure, including activities of rescue and emergency services in the case of extraordinary situations depend. The most vulnerable places with the lowest possible real protection are sources of drinking water and line structures of distribution system. The study of protection of water management infrastructure covers risk identification and analysis for individual operating systems and structures, reduction in the influence of water losses on activities of national emergency services and dealing with fire protection of territorial units in the case of water shortage in sources and distribution systems, mathematical modelling of critical points and water mains designed for water emergency supply. Based on the study of these findings and needs, it is possible to formulate and revise in practice crisis plans for regions and territorial administrative units, to prepare highly efficient plans of crisis preparedness of legal subjects, and thus to increase substantially the level of crisis planning as a whole to reduce negative influences of extraordinary events.
Teaching methods
Individual consultations
Summary
Water supply systems and aquatic ecosystems belong unambiguously to the most vulnerable fields of national engineering infrastructure. It follows from risk analyses that they may be threatened considerably by action of natural influences and many anthropogenic events. Any threat or damage to the water management infrastructure always results in a decrease in housing standard, development of emergency regimes in health services, food production, accommodation services of towns and municipalities and simultaneously an impairment of fire security of built-up areas.
The subject evaluates, using the methods of risk analysis, the basic types of risks endangering aquatic ecosystems used for water supply systems, specifies emerging natural risks and anthropogenic hazards acting on water sources and production-technical facilities of public water supply systems. Based on the results of analyses, their comparison with development in the world and the use of new scientific knowledge of the given field, it makes the student familiar with the possibilities of real risk minimization.
Compulsory literature:
Davidson, A., Howard, G., Stevens, M., Allan, P., Kirby, L., Deere, D., Bartram, J.: Water Safety Plans. WHO/SDE/WSH/05.06. Revise Draft, WHO.
Water Act, available from http://eagri.cz/public/web/file/10629/The_Water_Act.pdf
Recommended literature:
Chipley, Michael et al, Risk Management Series Reference Manual to Mitigate Potential Terrorist Attacks Against Buildings, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), US Department of Homeland Security, Eigenverlag, Dezember 2003.
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Processing of the given topic, written and oral presentation.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
knowledge of basic legislative regulations and standards dealing with water infrastructure and its protection against the occurrence of extraordinary events,
common knowledge of water problems in the Czech Republic, water infrastructure strengths and weaknesses and risks that can affect water conditions under various climatic conditions,
orientation and basic knowledge of methods of protection of surface and underground water resources intended for water supply purposes,
system conditions and risk influences on supplying drinking water to towns and municipalities,
solving the problems of production and distribution systems of water supply for the public needs in relation to the supply of drinking water to built-up areas,
territorial risk assessment and restoration planning,
crisis planning in water management.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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