Semester:

8

Course Code:

CE5310

Course Name:

Public Health and Sanitary Engineering

Credit Value:

2 (Notional hours:100)

Prerequisites:

CE3060

Core/Optional

Optional

Hourly Breakdown

Lecture hrs.

Tutorial hrs.

Practical hrs.

Assignments hrs.

Independent Learning & Assessment hrs.

24

1

2

8

65

Course Aim: To familiarize students with water related health issues and appropriate engineering control measures by imparting knowledge on basic water microbiology, microbial risk assessments and management, and sanitary waste treatment techniques.

Intended Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of the course, the students should be able to;

➢    explain the sanitation related public health and assess the associated risk of environmental health issues for any related microbiological or chemical hazards in water.

➢    devise treatment and control measures against chemical and microbiological hazards to minimize impacts on public health, using appropriate risk assessment tools

➢    plan appropriate water management systems by identifying relevant engineering control measures to combat against a given level of health risk.

Course Content:

➢    Introduction to water supply, sanitation and public health: Global Health, Global burden of disease

➢    Disease outbreaks: Public health and hygiene, history of waterborne diseases, microbiology of drinking water, transmission routes of waterborne pathogens

➢    Identify hazards and hazardous events and assess the risks: Chemical and Microbiological risk, quantitative risk assessment, predictive microbiology, risk tradeoffs

➢    Onsite and offsite sanitary treatment system designs: Special emphasis on onsite advanced as well as low cost and appropriate technologies suited to developing world, Septage management

➢    Microbial source tracking: Microbial detection techniques and their application in water management

➢    Water Safety Plans (WSP) and Sanitation Safety Planning (SSP)

Teaching /Learning Methods:

Classroom lectures, tutorial discussions

Assessment Strategy:

Continuous Assessment

40%

Final Assessment

60%

Details:

Assignments/Tutorials     20%

Quizzes     20%

Theory (%)

60

Practical (%)

-

Other (%)

-

Recommended Reading:

➢    WHO (2015). Sanitation safety planning, Manual for safe use and disposal of wastewater, grey water and excreta, World Health Organization, Geneva.

➢    Haas, C.N., Rose, J.B. & Gerba, C.P. (2014). Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment, 2nd edn.

➢    Tilley, E., Lüthi, C., Morel, A., Zurbrügg, C. & Schertenleib, R. (2014). Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies, 2nd edn., Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and technology (Eawag), Switzerland.

➢    Batram, J., Corrales, L., Davison, A., Deere, D., Drury, D., Gordon, B., Howard, G., Rinehold, A. & Steven, M. (2009). Water safety plan manual: Step by step risk management for drinking water suppliers, World Health Organization, Geneva.

➢    Asano, T., Urton, F., Leverenz, H., Tsuchihashi, R. & Tchobnoglous, G. (2006). Water Reuse: Issues, Technologies, and Applications：Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. and AECOM.