Source water composition and properties, drinking water quality standards and regulation, water treatment technology trains – basic water treatment processes overview, coagulation and flocculation, water aeration, separation processes, adsorption of organic compounds by activated carbon, removal of specific contaminants, water disinfection processes, wastewater treatment plants, types of WWTP, physical unit operations and chemical unit processes at WWTP, microbiology, hydrobiology of wastewater, sludge management, waste management.