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Recall on the water cycle and the main physical phenomena involved. Distribution of water on the Earth.
The water balance of the floods in natural and artificial networks.

Aqueducts. Needs and sources of supply. Variability of requests. Basic water schemes (intake works, transport, storage and distribution). Gravity pipelines. Hydraulic losses in new and used pipelines. Design of the urban reservoirs. Pipe networks design. Problems of pipe verification and project design. Calculation of tree and meshed networks. Pumping stations. Pumping network. Materials for pipelines. Estimated costs of installation and operation. Rehabilitation of water pipes, reservoirs and of intake structures.
Sewage. Analysis of heavy rainfalls; losses phenomena. Basic rainfall-runoff models. Estimation of flood flows. Types of networks of urban drainage and preliminary analysis. Design of the network scheme on the basis of urban map and topography. Estimate of sewage flow. Estimated design hietograph. Italian 'critical design event'. Verification and project a drainage pipe. Dilution ratio, and flow rates to be adduced at purification treatment plants.
Hydraulic calculations of the main sewer works: siphon, spillways, free surface profiles in the pipes.
Manufacture of Special intake structures, storm drains, detention basins and pumping stations.
The restoration of the sewers: problems and methods. Ancient drainage. Restoration of artifacts.
The course will be supplemented with seminars, visits to construction sites and in factories producing manufactured goods.