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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
-
Keywords

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

  1. P01 Becoming aware of sufficient theoretical knowledge in basic engineering and agricultural science
  2. P02 Having sufficient theoretical knowledge in basic agricultural production especially in pomology, viticulture, olericulture, floriculture and agronomy, and their breeding
  3. P03 Being well equiped with practical experiences in agriculture
  4. P04 Finding the source of environmental, biotic, abiotic, technical and economical problems in agricultural crops which reduce yield and quality, and create solutions to related problems
  5. P05 Defining, classifying and naming cultivated crop plants and knowing how to manage them
  6. P06 Breeding of horticultural and field crops, developing new cultivars and producing propagation materials of new developed varieties
  7. P07 Applying up-to-date methods and techniques for preserving genetic resources and environment for sustainable use in agricultural commodities
  8. P08 Evaluating, asseying and analyzing the changes in cultivation of horticultural and agronomic crops in respect to irrigation, fertilization, defining pests and diseases and after postharvest handling
  9. P09 Establishing and managing orchards, vineyards and field crop productions and greenhouse operations
  10. P10 Obtaining data in horticulture and field crops along with researching, considering, recording, consulting and expert abilities, project writing and applying
  11. P11 Identifying different roles in enchancing individual abilities and skills beside taking responsibilities, participations in team works under any given conditions
  12. P12 Easily accessing to appropriate information and thinking analytically in their interested area and subjects. They can do accurate timing and planning in agricultural productions in year round. They think analytically, prepare questionaries, have an exploratory and creative vision and use the obtained knowledge for the benefit of farmers and societies
  13. P13 Having ability to transfer information and also able to easily communicate with the people in the field at different levels. They have self - confidence and self- improvement skills as well

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