Unit HYDROLOGY AND WATER SUPPLY
- Course
- Sustainable agriculture
- Study-unit Code
- A002168
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Francesca Todisco
- Teachers
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- Francesca Todisco
- Hours
- 54 ore - Francesca Todisco
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline della ingegneria agraria
- Academic discipline
- AGR/08
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Hydrologic cicle and budget
Hydrologic processes and simulation models
The watershed chracteristics
Risk assesment
Water harvesting
Small dams for farming water supply
Wells systems and pumps
Artificial wetlands.
Irrigation systems for distribution and adduction. - Reference texts
- Set of university lectures
FERRO V. (2006). La sistemazione dei bacini idrografici – seconda edizione. Ed. McGraw-Hill, Milano, 848 pp.
FERRO V. Elementi di Idraulica e Idrologia per le scienze Agrarie, ambientali e Forestali, BENINI G., Sistemazioni idraulico-forestali, UTET, Torino
FERRO V., DALLA FONTANA G., PAGLIARA S., PUGLISI S., SCOTTON P.M, Opere di Sistemazione Idraulico-Forestale a bassa impatto ambientale McGraw-Hill, Milano
BAGARELLO V., FERRO V. (2006). Erosione e conservazione del suolo. McGraw-Hill, Milano, 539 pp., ISBN 88-386-6311-4 (for further informations) - Educational objectives
- KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: Learning the basic methodologies to quantify and deal with the problems of hydraulic risk, hydrographic catchment restoration and conservazione, hydraulic invariance, water supply. Ability to understand text and professional books.
CAPACITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: Ability to programming and independently conduct the surveys and the data retrieve for hydrological studies aimed at restoration and conservazione, hydraulic invariance, water supply.
JUDGMENT AUTONOMY: Ability to identify the most appropriate methodologies to quantify the processes and solve the technical problems related to hydraulic risk, hydraulic-forest restoration and water supply.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Ability to exhibit technical studies even to an untrained public. To be able to sustain the importance and highlight the environmental effects of the correct quantificazion of the process to plan interventions of conservation of the soil and of the forestry and hydraulic remediation works.
LEARNING SKILLS: Ability to update with the consultation of scientific publications of hydrology sector, natural based solution, soil science and hydraulic-forest restoration and to follow specialist seminars. - Prerequisites
- Mathematics, physics and Hydraulic basic knowledge
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and numerical applications. Set of university lectures on UNISTUDIUM, books
- Other information
- Professor address: Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie. Alimentari e Ambientali (DSA3); Borgo XX Giugno 74. Perugia; Phone: 075 5856052 e_mail: francesca.todisco@unipg.it
Reception time-table dependent on the semester: see http://www.unipg.it/personale/francesca.todisco or http://www.dsa3.unipg.it/ A student may be also received by appointement, via e_mail application to francesca.todisco@unipg.it - Learning verification modality
- Oral exam aimed to verify the student knowledge, his discussion capacity, his applicative capacity related to solve some problems of water resource management. The exam consists in a discussion of about 30-45 minutes on 3 questions at least. The questions are related to different topics of the program illustrated during the lectures of the two units (Irrigation systems and Rehabilitation hydraulics) composing the teaching.
- Extended program
- LECTURES
Water resources and hydrological cycle. Bases of water resource planning and management. Interception, evaporation, transpiration and evapotranspiration processes. Measurement of evapotranspiration. Models to estimate evapotranspiration. Infiltration models
The hydrographic basin. Precipitation, measurement of precipitation, areal rainfall, rainfall data analysis, intensity-duration-frequency curves. Runoff process. Rainfall-flow relationship. Features of a hydrograph. Base flow. Peak flow. The rational formula. Time of concentration. Unit hydrograph theory. Streamflow. Measuring and recording streamflow. Hydrological droughts, Minimum instream flow.
Water supply, wells systems, small framing lakes.
PRACTICE
intensity-duration-frequency curves
infiltration models application
rainfall-runoff models application
peak flow
small farming lakes design and management
wells design