Lecture notes per chapter:

Introduction (8 pages)

• Introduction
• The urban water cycle
• Development of water transport
• The network situation in 2000
• The urban water cycle: drinking water and wastewater
• The urban water cycle: rain water / irrigation

Water transport through pipes (14 pages)

• Introduction
• Pressurised flow
• Friction coefficients and local losses
• Summary of pressurized transport
• Open channel flow
• Water Hammer
• Summary

Pumps and pumping stations (10 pages)

• Introduction
• Pump characteristics
• Classification of pumps
• Application of pumps

Network calculations (18 pages)

• Introduction
• Pressurised pipes: Drinking water models
• Models in urban drainage
• Hydrological models
• Annexes

Practical applications of network calculations (12 pages)

• Introduction
• Hydraulic relevance of pipes in a network model
• Design of main transport network
• Strategy for operational management: residence time analysis
• Strategy for operational maintenance: cleaning of networks
• Storage facilities in a network
• Setting up network calculations: data acquisition
• Skeletonisation

Reliability of drinking water systems (8 pages)

• Introduction
• Quantifying the reliability of a drinking water supply system
• Definitions and starting points
• Quantative guideline for reliability
• Pressure dependant demand
• Assessing the reliability of a drinking water system
• Assessing the reliability of a drinking water system
• Designing a reliable network

Water quality aspects of drinking water distribution (6 pages)

• Introduction
• Physical processes in the network and discoloration
• Continuous monitoring of water quality
• Cause and nature of discoloration

Design of drinking water distribution network (8 pages)

• Introduction
• Demand in a distribution network and fire flow requirements
• Minimum pressure at supply point
• Conventional distribution network
• Valves, isolation and sections
• Modern distribution network
• Determine actual drinking water demand
• Compose main structure/divide into sections
• Design branched system
• Fitting the fire flow demand
• Valves and reliability of shut down in a modern distribution network

Operation and maintenance of networks (10 pages)

• General data on drinking water network in the Netherlands
• Development drinking water network
• The need for maintenance: Asset management
• Basic concept for asset management
•  Technical ageing of pipe materials
• Condition assessment of cast iron
• Condition assessment of asbestos cement
• Condition assessment of PVC
• Customer perception

Background of ALEID netwerk calculations (60 pages)

• Composition of the program
• Error messages
• Files in the program and working directories
• Files created in ALEID2000
• Theoretical background of the calculation
• Troubleshooting
• Overview of units in ALEID2000
• Overview of data in ALEID2000
• Supporting programs COLEBROOK and EQUIVALENT