1. Understand the global availability of water resources, the characteristics of natural water bodies and their potential while freshwater resources for human activities.
2. Realize the importance of the Water Framework Directive as a key instrument for concerted management of surface and groundwater quality at EU level, and to know the legislation arising from its transposition which regulates at the national level the discharge standards and the water quality standards for the different uses. Understand, in this context, the concepts of Watershed management and Urban Water Cycle.
3. Characterize the different water pollutants, according to their origins and environmental significance in the water bodies, particularly with regard to those related to WWTP discharges and uptake sources of WTP for drinking water production.
4. To use tools for assessing/predicting pollutants behaviour in surface waters.

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