Course information

• Objectives

  The objective of this course is to make participants familiar with the developments in the wider context of urban water management, focusing on a special role that sanitation, sanitary engineering, and biological wastewater treatment play in it, from the past, present, and future perspectives.

• Syllabus

  This introductory course is made of several carefully selected keynotes prepared by professors who made significant contribution to wastewater developments during the last decades.

  • Biological Wastewater Treatment in the Context of Water Quality Management
  • Planning and Implementing Flexible and Adaptable Urban Water Management Infrastructure
  • Biological Wastewater Treatment as a Technological System
  • Wastewater Treatment Innovations – A University Perspective
  • Past, Present, and Future of Wastewater Treatment – A Personal Perspective
  • Novel Urban Water Management Concepts
• Organization

  This course consists of video lectures, presentation slides, reading materials, exercises, and assignments with solutions. In principle, each video presentation has its complementary presentation slides. All videos are available for viewing in the section “Video-recorded presentations”. The materials are packaged in three (.zip) files, namely, the “Videos”, the “Presentations”, and the “Documents”. All the files can be downloaded from the section “Download course materials”. Some files may be of considerable size, so you need to ensure that your computer has sufficient bandwidth and capacity for downloading.

• Delivery method

  This course is currently designed for a SELF-STUDY mode. It is FREE, and DOES NOT include guidance, support, exams, assessment, and certification. It is possible that shortly, the series (or its parts) will be adopted by institutions that may deliver the guided version, including certification. As soon as this is the case, it will be advertised on this website.

• Organization

  The content is available for free unlimited access and use, consistent with Global Sanitation Graduate School’s commitment to ensuring open access to information and knowledge. Please note that the video materials fall under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), presentations under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), readers (OA books of IWA Publishing) under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), and other readers under the license specified by the publisher. Although care has been taken to ensure the integrity and quality of these materials and information, no responsibility is assumed by the author(s), Global Sanitation Graduate School, or IHE Delft Institute for Water Education for any damage to property or persons as a result of the use of these materials and/or the information contained herein.