Learning Outcomes:
After the semester, students should be able to:
1. Explain water sampling techniques;
2. Elucidate specific chemistry tests for water quality;
3. Describe several factors that could affect water quality;
4. Describe water as an environmental, economic, and social resource;
5. Explain how environmentalists help maintain water quality for health and recreation through Monitoring and treatment; and
6. Analyze, interpret, and report on laboratory and field findings using appropriate statistical techniques and computer applications.
Course Contents:
· Sampling and analysis of water
· Biological and physicochemical water quality parameters: pH, hardness, alkalinity, chloride, phosphate, nature, ammonia, sulphate, sulphide, sulphite, fecal bacteria, etc.
· Determination of dissolved oxygen (DO), chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)
· Dissolved and suspended solids, conductivity, turbidity, temperature, saturation index, and sodium adsorption ratio, among others.
- Teacher: Bemgba Bevan Nyakuma