This course comprehensively examines how climatic and hydrologic data are collected in the field and checked for accuracy and consistency. The focus is predominantly surface-water hydrology in rural design applications. Coverage includes the specification of design rainfall, runoff and routing models, estimations of irrigation water requirement, and its quality specification. Uncertainty and natural variability of hydrologic processes require that most water projects be designed with some degree of risk, using frequency-based design or critical event design. Estimating catchment water yield and flood magnitudes to design reservoirs and hydraulic structures for water conveyance and flood mitigation are considered and the impact of climate change on the sustainability of water supply.

You will undertake project-based assignment tasks that will integrate theoretical and practical knowledge related to flood magnitudes and water yield for designing hydraulic structures and reservoirs and calculating the impact of climate change on catchments.