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About the Course

One of the most obvious claims in our everyday life is the importance of water, often called the blue gold. Anyway, we are often incapable of shifting this importance in tangible actions aimed at protecting this resource and optimizing its use. Past and present anthropic pressure has heavily impaired fresh water, usually supplied for drinking water production. Water utilities and water-treatment practitioners were unprepared to effectively face the challenge of a growing high-quality water demand, especially in climate change scenarios. We need to think out of the box, creating multi-disciplinary panels of experts able to exploit the advances in chemistry, environmental engineering, and ICT to effectively join human health protection and economic and social development. In this sense, stakeholders’ involvement is essential to success. This MOOC wants to communicate the challenge of protecting water and then human health from chemical and microbiological hazards, as well as the multidisciplinarity required by this challenge by providing some key elements about water quality, protection and remediation, sustainable drinking water production, online monitoring, and finally advanced computing for process control. Moreover, a broader perspective to investigate the experience of water supply will be introduced. For instance, participants will be invited to observe and understand people’s practices around drinking water, exploring approaches and tools derived from service and product design to support behavioral change. It fulfills SDG6, covering almost all its set targets, but also some relevant targets in SDG11, SDG12, and SGD15, considering the strict connection among safe water provision, robust cities/societies development, and sustainable consumption....

Top reviews

SM

Oct 9, 2024

It is an extremely interesting course with loads of valuable information

ST

Dec 16, 2023

This was the best course I ever attended. Thank you coursera and Politecnico di Milano.

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By nineh b

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Mar 8, 2024

In this course, I have learned about various aspects, ranging from the sources polluting our water to newly introduced terminology in the field of water management. Additionally, I gained insights into innovative technologies that can be employed to control the amount of water contaminants.

By Mohammad P

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Jun 8, 2023

Hello, thank you for your efforts in the course. It was very useful and beautiful. I hope you will always be healthy and happy. Mohammad Pakzad from Iran.

By saeed t

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Dec 17, 2023

This was the best course I ever attended. Thank you coursera and Politecnico di Milano.

By SeyedMohammadreza M

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Oct 10, 2024

It is an extremely interesting course with loads of valuable information

By Fred S

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Dec 9, 2023

The only problem I had was the language.......

By XAVIR G

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Apr 2, 2025

Course was more informative .

By SANKET

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Mar 12, 2025

easy and less content course

By Shannon H

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Jan 4, 2024

Informative course.

By Батыржан Т

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Apr 3, 2025

Вау хорошый курс

By Olive N

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May 25, 2023

great knowledge

By GYANARANJAN P

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Oct 26, 2024

nice course

By Kishore V

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Oct 31, 2024

EXCELLENT

By Man M M

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Oct 11, 2023

Love it

By SHREYAS S

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Oct 28, 2024

Good

By Y V

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Nov 26, 2023

Osm

By Jaidithya V

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Feb 23, 2024

Its good

By Mukilan s

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Oct 25, 2024

good