REN R 250
Water Resource Management
Winter 2025
Readings
- Holden, Joseph. Water Resources: An integrated approach. 2nd edition. Routledge, New York,
- Available from: www.routledge.com
Winter 2013
Topics
- Importance of water and hydrology in everyday life
- The hydrologic equation and water balance
- Precipitation and interception
- Infiltration and soil water
- Groundwater (hydrogeology)
- Evapotranspiration
- Examination I
- Runoff generation and watersheds
- Water for Life Strategy for Alberta (www.waterforlife.gov.ab.ca)
- Water resource management
- Irrigation, drainage and salinity
- Examination II
- Water use in the oil sands; what’s all the fuss?
- Water and wildlife
- Water footprinting
- Wetlands and riparian areas
- Environmental goods and services of water
- Drought networking
- Water quality: parameters, measurements and issues; Canadian Water Quality Guidelines
- Water legislation in Alberta and Canada
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- 2013-Winter-REN-R-250-LECTURE-B1 ↗2013
- 2026-Winter-REN-R-250-LECTURE-B1 ↗2026
- Document date Winter 2025 differs from archive label Winter 2026. Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Archive label: 2026-Winter-REN-R-250-LECTURE-B1 Partial automated extraction.
- No textbook required according to this source. Partial automated extraction.