Some aspects of hydraulic education in agricultural engineering in Czechoslovakia

The substantial part of small water-courses, reservoirs, all irrigation and drainage systems are managed and operated by agricultural authorities in Czechoslovakia. This situation has raised the need to establish the Land and Water Engineering Branch at the University of Agriculture, Prague in 1960. The curricula and syllabi formulating the teaching programme of the Land and Water Engineering have been recently drastically changed in favour of environmental engineering with the aim to educate people who could: to solve the feedback between agricultural production and corresponding land exploitation to keep both phenomena in equilibrium, to look after water resources on agricultural catchments with the aim of rational water use and of decrease a surface runoff, to take care of existing water resources and hydraulics structures and facilities, to be able to evaluate a specific situation and then to take measures including the design of new facilities being in a good production-environmental balance. From these requirements follows the outlines for a new teaching programme which should start in the Academic Year 1990/91.