Unit 1 Introduction

2 lecture hours

• Components of environment
• Types of microbes
• their growth and role in environment

Unit 2 Quality and Quantity of Water for supply to towns/Cities

8 lecture hours

• Sources of water
• Assessment of domestic and industrial requirement
• Impurities in water
• Indian standards for drinking water
• Water borne diseases and their control
• The water (prevention and control of pollution) Act – 1974

Unit 3 Characteristics of Wastewater

8 lecture hours

• chemical and biological characteristics of domestic and industrial wastewaters
• BOD and COD, study of characteristics of several industrial wastewaters like textile
• chemical dairy and pharmaceutical wastewaters
• Indian Standards for effluent to be disposed in receiving water body like rivers
• sea and oceans
• Disposal of treated wastewaters (i) into inland surface waters
• (ii) into oceans
• (iii) into public sewers (iv) into estuaries and (v) onto land
• Effect of organic pollution on Stream
• river water quality, and self purification
• DOSAG Curve

Unit 4 House Drainage

6 lecture hours

• Principles of house drainage
• pipes and traps
• Classification of traps nahni trap
• gulley trap
• interception trap
• grease trap
• sanitary fitting
• system of plumbing
• house drainage plan for buildings

Unit 5 Solid Waste Management

• Quantity composition and characteristics of solid wastes
• Classification of solid wastes
• Hazardous solid wastes
• Biomedical solid wastes