CIE523 Water Resources Planning and Management

[3–0, 3 cr.]

Introduction to the planning and management of water resource systems, and the techniques — such as linear programming, dynamic programming and nonlinear programming — that are used to solve them. Practical problems in water resource systems such as water allocation, water quality management, reservoir operations, flood control, water resources management, basin modelling and flood and drought forecasting demonstrated are discussed with system analysis methods.

Pre-requisite: CIE721 Hydrology.

Note: This course has not been thought since Fall 2023 and will not be taught in this academic year 2025–2026.