EOHS 5324 Water and Public Health: Global to Regional Perspectives

3 SCH. This course covers how water quantity and quality affect population health from regional and global perspectives, and human efforts to reduce its impacts on public health. The course provides training on recognition, evaluation, and control of water contaminants and discussions on current issues related to water. The water contaminants include microbial organisms, chemicals, and radioactive materials both from natural and anthropogenic sources. Human efforts to reduce the impacts of water contamination and to conserve water include; water and wastewater treatment technologies and policy and regulations. In addition, climate efforts on water quality and quantity will be discussed both in regional and global perspectives. Prerequisite: EOHS 5300 or permission of instructor.