Water resources courses


INTEGRATED CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY^

Introduction to Catchment Scale Processes and the Tools for Managing Water including Climate Change

This 3-day course focuses on the catchment-based water management system and integrated hydrologic models of the catchment behavior. The course aims to enable the participants to understand the complex interaction between the climate, land-use, and the hydrologic cycle and to link the theoretical principles to modelling tools (e.g. MIKE SHE). Physics-based integrated models provide the most reliable basis for predicting the effects of human intervention and climate change impacts and adaptation measures. The course is designed for professionals working within water resources planning and management, including risk management and climate change adaptation. Participants are expected to have a background in water resources or hydrology or climate change with emphasis on water.

Topics

  • Catchment processes – groundwater, surface water, evapotranspiration
  • Traditional modelling approaches I – lump parameter rainfall runoff modelling
  • Traditional modelling approaches II – groundwater modelling
  • Integrated hydrologic modelling – tools, case studies and comparisons
  • Hydrology and climate change – trends, impacts and emerging issues
  • Moving from theory to practice – an introduction to MIKE SHE
  • Hands-on exercises

Related course

  • `MIKE SHE - Integrated Catchment Modelling´

Further information

INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT AND WATER MANAGEMENT (IEWM)^

The purpose of this 4-weeks´ residential course is to provide people working with environment and water resource management with a wide-ranging appreciation of the tools available in water and environment management as well as the value, limitation and use of these tools in practice. In this way, the course will provide the participants with a background for assessing water quality, water resources and other environmental issues and allow them to use these in an integrated way in environmental management.

The target group of participants is environmental practitioners, water resource managers and others working with environmental issues, taken from middle managers and middle-to-senior administrators who are connected to public authorities regulating or administering water and environmental services and or working with the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.

Topics

  • Water resources assessment
  • Data analysis and presentation
  • GIS integration
  • Integrated Water Resources Management
  • Environmental Management
  • Individual working sessions and project work

Further information

Please contact Jesper Goodley Dannisøe, Senior Project Manager, Ecology & Environment Department. Email: jda@dhigroup.com

INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IWRM) ^

Introduction to a Policy Framework for the Application of Planning and Management Tools

The increasing global imbalance between the demand and availability of clean water is at the top of the international agenda. A consensus on fundamental principles for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) was reached in 1992. The Millennium Declaration was approved by all the members of the United Nations in September 2000. The declaration contains the vision on a much improved world by 2015 where, amongst others, access to water is greatly improved as well as health conditions and the sustainability of the environment is ensured. All the United Nations agencies (UNESCO, FAO, ILO; UNDP, UNICEF, UNIFEM, IFAD, WB, etc.) are committed to the MDGs and within their sphere of competence are contributing to them. The principles of the cross-sectoral approach of IWRM are widely accepted as contributing significantly to achieving the MDGs.

The 3-day course provides water professionals with an enhanced ability to formulate, analyse and implement water policies, plans and programmes within an Integrated Water Resources Management framework. The course focuses on tools to implement IWRM – the enabling environment, institutional roles and management instruments. Within management instruments there is emphasis on modelling tools (e.g. MIKE BASIN), decision support tools and simulation tools. The requirements from Climate Change, vulnerability and risk management are considered and international cases studies and lessons are drawn upon.

Topics

  • IWRM – concepts, principles and approaches – Water policy and legislation (the game plan) – Institutional roles (the players) – Management Instruments (the tools)
  • Tools overview - use of the Global Water Partnership Tool Box. International cases studies and lessons learned
  • Modelling tools, decision support tools, simulation tools and catchment management tools and their application within an IWRM policy framework
  • Tools for integrating water allocation, including environmental flow allocations, for integrated water resources planning and management
  • Tools for modelling and managing water extremes (including rainfall/runoff varibailtiies) under climate change scenarios
  • Using IWRM to deal with Climate Change
  • Reduction of vulnerability and risk management in an IWRM perspective
  • How to take the principles from IWRM into modelling tools like MIKE BASIN
  • Hands-on exercises

Related courses

  • `MIKE BASIN - River Basin Modelling´
  • `WISYS - Management of Water Information Systems for Integrated River Basin Development´ 
  • `Water Quality Management´

Further information

WISYS^

Management of Information Systems for Integrated River Basin Development

This 3-day course provides an introduction to WISYS, a software package for water management information system based on ESRI`s Geodatabase format, within the context of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). You will build your own small water information system applying the most important programme functions, including migration, preparation, analysing and reporting and result evaluation. The course is aimed at water professionals and decision makers in consulting, research and public authorities.

Topics

  • Introduction to WISYS and its graphical user interface
  • Introduction to WISYS object model
  • Pre-processing and import of data in geodatabase
  • Analyze and editing of river network with WISYS tools
  • Working with events
  • Use of WISYS tools for analysis of river basin district
  • Introduction to the EU WFD
  • Examples and case studies for coupling with other models
  • Hands-on exercises

Related courses

  • `MIKE BASIN – River Basin Modelling´
  • `INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IWRM) - A Policy Framework for the Application of Planning and Management Tools´

Further information

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