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CEE 41Q.
Clean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts.
Why do some people have access to as much safe, clean water as they need, while others do not? You will explore answers to this question by learning about, discussing and debating urban water conflicts including the Flint water crisis, the drought in South Africa, intermittent water supply in Mumbai, and arsenic contamination in Bangladesh. In this course, you will explore the technical, economic, institutional, social, policy, and legal aspects of urban water using these and more water conflicts as case studies. You will attend lectures and participate in discussions, laboratory modules, and field work. In lectures, you will learn about the link between water and human and ecosystem health, drinking water and wastewater treatment methods, as well as policies and guidelines (local, national, and global from the World Health Organization) on water and wastewater, and the role of various stakeholders including institutions and the public, in the outcome of water conflicts. You will dive into details of conflicts over water through case studies using discussion and debate. You will have the opportunity to measure water contaminants in a laboratory module. You will sample a local stream and measure concentrations of Escherichia coli and enterococci bacteria in the water. A field trip to a local wastewater treatment plant, as COVID and university policy allows, will allow you to see how a plant operates. By the end of this course, you will have a greater appreciation of the importance of institutions, stakeholders and human behavior in the outcome of water conflicts, and the complexity of the coupled human-ecosystem-urban water system.
4 Units
CEE 272.
Coastal Contaminants
Coastal pollution and its effects on ecosystems and human health. The sources, fate, and transport of human pathogens, nutrients, heavy metals, persistent organics, endocrine disrupters, and toxic algae. Background on coastal ecosystems and coastal transport phenomena including tides, waves, and cross shelf transport. Introduction to time series analysis with MATLAB and R. Undergraduates may enroll with consent of instructor.
3-4 Units

CEE 274P.
Environmental Health Microbiology
Microbiology skills including culture-, microscope-, and molecular-based detection techniques. Focus is on standard and EPA-approved methods to enumerate and isolate organisms used to assess risk of enteric illnesses, such as coliforms, enterococci, and coliphage, in drinking and recreational waters including lakes, streams, and coastal waters. Student project to assess the microbial water quality of a natural water. Enrollment by consent of instructor, application required.

4 Units
CEE 375A.
Water, Climate & Health
This course will review and discuss current literature on the water, climate, and human health nexus. We will review the climate-change projections from the most recent IPCC assessment and discuss their implications for water access and infectious disease, with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries. Each student will write a research proposal that proposes novel research on the water, climate, and human health nexus. Course enrollment is capped. Permission to enroll must be obtained from the instructors through an application process. This class is co-taught with Prof Jenna Davis.

3 Units
CEE 275C.
Water, Sanitation & Health
Students acquire basic knowledge to participate in a dialogue on water, sanitation and health issues in developing and developed countries. The focus is on enteric pathogenic pollutants. Material includes: Important pathogens, their modes of transmission and the diseases they cause, their fate and transport in the environment, and the means by which they are measured; statistical methods for processing and interpreting waterborne pollutant concentrations, and interpreting data from epidemiology studies; microbial source tracking; epidemiology and quantitative microbial risk assessment; reduction of pathogens in water and sludge; and non-experimental water, sanitation, and hygiene research. Several laboratory sessions will allow students to measure indicator bacteria and viruses using culture-based techniques and expose students to molecular methods for measuring health-relevant targets in water. This class is co-taught with Prof Jenna Davis.

3-4 Units
CEE 175A/275A.
California Coast: Science, Policy, and Law
Interdisciplinary. The legal, science, and policy dimensions of managing California's coastal resources. Coastal land use and marine resource decision making. The physics, chemistry, and biology of the coastal zone, tools for exploring data from the coastal ocean, and the institutional framework that shapes public and private decision making. Field work: how experts from different disciplines work to resolve coastal policy questions. Team taught with Debbie Sivas of the Stanford Law School. Students must apply to take this course, instructors' consent required.

3-4 Units

(Graduate students register for 275A, LAW 514.)

CEE 271M/371M.
Transport Phenomena
Heat, mass, and momentum transfer theory from the viewpoint of the basic transport equations. Steady and unsteady state; laminar and turbulent flow; boundary layer theory. Prerequisites: fluid mechanics, ordinary differential equations. Can be taken for a letter grade or credit / no credit.

3 Units
OSPSANTG 76.
Urban Water
This course explores the technical, economic, social, policy, and law aspects of urban water using United States and Santiago case studies. The course will include lectures, discussions, laboratory modules, field work, and field trips. Lectures will provide foundational information on the link between water and human and ecosystem health, centralized and decentralized drinking water and wastewater treatment methods, as well as policies and guidelines (local, national, and global from the World Health Organization) on water and wastewater. Students will dive into details of nuanced conflicts over urban water through case studies from the US and Santiago through discussion and debate. Laboratory modules will give students the opportunity to measure common water contaminants. Field work will include sampling of surface water sources and analyzing concentrations of E. coli and enterococci in the water. Field trips to a local wastewater treatment plants and the Mapocho river (which runs through the city), headwaters of the Maipo River, and San Antonio where the Maipo River discharges to the sea will give students the chance to see many of the things we will be discussing in class. Course themes include (1) scientific uncertainty, (2) politics, and (3) complexity of the coupled human-ecosystem-urban water system.

This class is only taught in Santiago, Chile as part of the Bing Overseas program.
4 Units
Updated January 2020