309117 (v.1) Water Resources 302

Area:	Department of Applied Geology
Credits:	12.5
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	World's water supply and Australia's portion of it. Distribution and variability of water supplies, surface and underground: emphasis on Western Australia. Hydrologic cycle. Water budget equation. Measurement and presentation of hydrologic data. Remote sensing and GIS for water resources. Human impacts on hydrologic systems. Quantitative, qualitative and environmental aspects. Global environmental changes and its effects on water resources. El Nino and La Nina, droughts and floods. Demand for water andlimitations imposed by scarcity. Domestic, industrial, agricultural and pastoral uses and misuses of water. Water resources policies and legislations. Water resources and the future.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	010700 Earth Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External