Water balance
- Basics and elements of the water balance
- Balancing
Anthropogenic influences on the water balance (quantity)
- Settlement development and its effects on runoff
- Water supply from surface and underground sources
- Storage facilities and their competing uses
- Hydropower (dams, barrages and pumped storage power plants)
Anthropogenic influences on water quality
- Material flows and their quantification
- European Water Framework Directive
European Water Framework Directive
Ecological status of water bodies
- Biological water quality
- Water structure quality
- Morphological environmental objectives
- Repopulation potential
Potential hazard to water bodies
- List of priority substances
- Input paths (point source and diffuse)
- Hydraulic pressures
Measures and action programmes
- Renaturation
- Passability
- Reduction of point loads
- Improvement of watercourse structure
Effects of climate change on water management planning
- Return periods of design events
- Dealing with ‘urban flash floods’
- Increase in ‘millennium floods’
Current topics in water management
