WATER FOOTPRINT
- Course
- ENVE313 - WATER FOOTPRINT
- Department
- Environmental Engineering - English - Undergraduate
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 4
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şifa DOĞAN
- Prerequisite
- -
Course Description
The aim of this course is to discuss personal, industrial and countrywide water consumption behavior and factors affecting it as well as strategies to achieve goals set for sustainable water consumption by United Nations. Some of the themes that will be covered in this course are water footprint, blue, green and grey water footprints, water footprint evaluation steps, personal water footprints, agricultural and industrial footprints, Country’s footprints, availability and dependency on water, status of country’s water footprints. Students will be able to calculate their own footprints. They will evaluate the water footprint values for various countries and discuss the differences. Students will observe the uneven distribution of the world’s water resources and also the differences in worldwide consumption habits. In this course the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals particularly the ones involving water footprint themes will be investigated.
WATER FOOTPRINT
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to Water Footprints: Concept, metrics, history |
| Week 2 | Introduction to Water Footprints: Concept, metrics, history |
| Week 3 | The Water Footprint Assessment (WFA) Framework |
| Week 4 | Agricultural Water Footprints |
| Week 5 | Industrial and Corporate Water Accounting |
| Week 6 | Review |
| Week 7 | Midterm exam |
| Week 8 | Midterm exam |
| Week 9 | Homework, project topic assignments and discussions |
| Week 10 | National and Consumer Water Footprints |
| Week 11 | Water Footprint Sustainability Assessment |
| Week 12 | Water Footprint Sustainability Assessment |
| Week 13 | Homework discussions (Project discussions, presentations) |
| Week 14 | Homework discussions (Project discussions, presentations) |
| Week 15 | Final exam |
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Program Outcomes
- P01 Create a user interface in a contemporary object-oriented language to allow users to access business data
- P02 Identify and analyze user needs and take them into account in the selection, creation, integration, evaluation and administration of computing-based systems
- P03 Analyze common business functions and identify, design, and develop appropriate information technology solutions
- P04 Design and develop software solutions for contemporary business environments by employing appropriate problem-solving strategies
- P05 Configure and administer database server to support contemporary business environments.
- P06 Administer or mange a relational database for a small to medium size company
- P07 Be able to effectively integrate IT-based solutions into the user environment
- P08 Understand professional, ethical, legal, security and social issues and responsibilities
- P09 Be able to apply effective communication skills consistent with the professional environment
- P10 Be able to apply effective collaboration skills in teamwork consistent with the professional environment
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