Water: an essential resource
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Water: an essential resource at Coursera Overview
Duration | 3 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Water: an essential resource at Coursera Highlights
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Beginner Level No prerequisite knowledge is required for this course.
- Approx. 3 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Water: an essential resource at Coursera Course details
- One of the most obvious claims in our everyday life is the importance of water, often called the blue gold. Anyway, we are often incapable of shifting this importance in tangible actions aimed at protecting this resource and optimizing its use. Past and present anthropic pressure has heavily impaired fresh water, usually supplied for drinking water production. Water utilities and water-treatment practitioners were unprepared to effectively face the challenge of a growing high-quality water demand, especially in climate change scenarios. We need to think out of the box, creating multi-disciplinary panels of experts able to exploit the advances in chemistry, environmental engineering, and ICT to effectively join human health protection and economic and social development. In this sense, stakeholders’ involvement is essential to success.
- This MOOC wants to communicate the challenge of protecting water and then human health from chemical and microbiological hazards, as well as the multidisciplinarity required by this challenge by providing some key elements about water quality, protection and remediation, sustainable drinking water production, online monitoring, and finally advanced computing for process control. Moreover, a broader perspective to investigate the experience of water supply will be introduced. For instance, participants will be invited to observe and understand people’s practices around drinking water, exploring approaches and tools derived from service and product design to support behavioral change. It fulfills SDG6, covering almost all its set targets, but also some relevant targets in SDG11, SDG12, and SGD15, considering the strict connection among safe water provision, robust cities/societies development, and sustainable consumption.
Water: an essential resource at Coursera Curriculum
The anthropic water cycle
The water behind us: contamination sources and prediction modeling
Emerging contaminants in drinking water and food – Two examples: PFAS and Bisphenol A
Risk assessment to address the change: how a probabilistic approach can help decide
Drinking water quality and risk: false myths to dispel
ASAP project: participated paths and behavioral change
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Water treatments
Technologies to deal with groundwater novel issues
Sustainability in groundwater remediation
The drinking water production chain: available technologies
Materials in contact with water as possible contamination source
New eco-designed materials for water treatment
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Big data and advanced computing
New tools for flexible and resilient monitoring campaigns
Soft sensors for the development of early warning systems
Sensors and Electronics for Distributed Water Quantity and Quality Wireless Monitoring
The Dirty Sensing project: an inline pervasive monitoring tool for pipes fouling
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for reactor modelling
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