Short Course Description
Both Israel and California are located in semi-arid regions and both suffers from water shortages. These unstable water conditions are being challenged recently by global climate change that highlight the uncertainties of a modern sustainable water management. Furthermore, these highly developed regions are densely populated, which leads to high water demand and consumption for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses. Approximately 1/2 of the domestically consumed water becomes wastewater that may severely contaminate the local aquatic environments and damage the local, natural and fragile water resources (most of the agriculture water is lost to the atmosphere via evapotranspiration).
During the course the students will study the conflict of managing a highly consumed water resources, while parallelly, preventing pollution by treating various types of wastewater. The course will give local examples and study cases from, both, California and Israel, demonstrating how to manage these challenges and conflicts using the best and the most appropriate and innovative available technologies in order to optimized solutions. The course will include field trips in both areas so that the students are able to see the different infrastructure used to supply stable potable water to consumers.
Full syllabus is to be published
