CHENNAI: Indian Institute of Technology – Madras (IIT-Madras) has partnered with Tel Aviv University, Israel, and KMCH-Research Foundation, Coimbatore, to offer a water quality course aiming at creating water-literate citizens.
This four-month-long course, offered in a hybrid mode through NPTEL online-platform, is ideal for final year science and engineering students and for those interested in water quality.
As part of the course, students will conduct practical tests, including surveys. The course organisers are working towards building a water map of India. Students also will receive a course completion certificate as part of their degree programme.
Interested candidates can register through the following link – https://bit.ly/3zgpkMy
The registrations will close on July 20.
T Pradeep and Ligy Philip from IIT-Madras, Hadas Mamane and Ram Fishman from Tel Aviv University and G Velmurugan from KMCH-Research Foundation will serve as the course instructors.
Faculty members from BARC, Purdue University and IIT-Madras will work as guest lecturers.
“The course will build reliable water quality data by people which will also make them water literate,” said T Pradeep from the department of chemistry, IIT-Madras.
Titled ‘A Hybrid Course on Water Quality: An Approach to People’s Water Data’, the course will deliver a comprehensive understanding of important aspects of water quality, analysis of key parameters and their impact on human health.
It will also establish a database of water quality from diverse sources such as households, rivers, borewells, groundwater and pipeline networks.
The students will have the option to attend the lectures online or offline or in recorded form. Their understanding of the concepts will be evaluated by online assignments and quizzes.
Those registering for the practical session will do measurements in the field and lab with hand-held instruments and field test kits, among others. The water quality parameters studied include free chlorine, total chlorine, alkalinity, pH, oxidation-reduction potential (ORP), conductivity, total dissolved solids (TDS), temperature, turbidity, as well as presence and absence of E coli and total coliforms.
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