Water cycle and watershed

The EU content is organized into 3 parts:

1) Water cycle and water balance
- The main reservoirs
- Mechanisms of the water cycle
- Water circulation: from global to watershed scale
- Humans: their influence on the water cycle

2) The aerial phase of the water cycle - Hydrology
- The watershed
- Atmospheric circulation and precipitation
- Evapotranspiration
- Infiltration
- Runoff

3) The underground phase of the water cycle - Hydrogeology
- Porous media and their hydrodynamic properties
- Different types of aquifer
- Piezometric levels and maps

1. Know the technical vocabulary of hydrologists and hydrogeologists. 
2. Be able to solve simple applied engineering problems (water balance, rainfall intensity, volume of underground reserves, groundwater flow, etc.).
3. Acquire the basic skills needed to implement an integrated approach to water resource management in a watershed.

Written final test (2h)

1- Water cycle and water balance 

The main reservoirs

Mechanisms of the water cycle

Water circulation: from global to watershed scale

Man: his influence on the water cycle

2- The aerial phase of the water cycle - Hydrology

The watershed

Atmospheric circulation and precipitation

Evapotranspiration

Infiltration

Surface flows

3- The underground phase of the water cycle - Hydrogeology

Porous media and their hydrodynamic properties

Different types of aquifer

Piezometric levels and maps