By actively participating in all the activities proposed in this week, you will be able to:

  • Describe the principal contamination sources that threaten, locally and globally, the chemical and microbiological water quality
  • Recognize the different ways in which water quality is related to human and environmental health
  • Identify emerging pollutants and their characterizing factors, as well as their migration pathways
  • Indicate the parameters that define drinking water quality, their organoleptic properties, and their benefits or harmfulness for humans
  • Discuss core concepts of human health and environmental risk assessment, inherent uncertainties, and risk management techniques for implementing regulations
  • Explain the basic difference in deterministic and probabilistic approaches to modeling and risk assessment
  • Discuss the experience of water supply to act on behaviors with awareness, having clear in mind what people's practices are and which are the obstacles to behavioral change
  • Compare different research methods around water quality assessment and design; these include service design, product design, urban ethnography, and social practices analysis