Why Attend This Training Course?

This course is intended to provide the engineers, technicians and government officials withbasic water distribution fundamentals of design and planning are presented. The course material examines important factors to consider when designing new water distribution systems, analyzing existing systems, and specifying materials and appurtenances. Learning how to deal with technical aspects of drinking water treatment and distribution in an integrated way, paying attention to the choice of technologies and tools, ranging from low-cost to advanced options. Provide the participants with a sound understanding of design principles in water supply systems and treatment processes. Participants will be able to acquire sufficient knowledge on basic design of conventional and advanced water treatment processes and modern systems for water purification.

What Is The Training Course Methodology?

This training course methodology depends on enabling participants to interact and exchange experiences, explore their competencies and achieve their career aspirations, using forward-thinking training arts, such as theoretical lectures and/or open discussion to exchange opinions and experiences, scenarios, innovative thinking brainstorming. Participants will receive an agenda including training material as a reference, in addition to some extra notes and booklets. 

Who Should Attend This Training Course?

This course eligible participants who their study part of water science applications related courses:

• Civil Engineering

• Environmental Engineering

• Agriculture

• Mechanical Engineering

• Plumb Engineering

• Public Health

What Are The Training Course Objectives?

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of water supply & sanitary drainage networks & collection systems

• Have the knowledge about important pre-studies for sanitary engineering project

• Have the design concept for raw water & treated water pumping

• Design the water storage works (elevated & ground)

• Deign the sewerage system

What Is The Training Course Curriculum?

Introduction

• General outline of water supply

• Water availability and uses

• Temporal and spatial distribution

• Key issues and concerns

• Features and elements of a water distribution systems

Water Demand

• Concept of water demand

• Estimation of water demand

• Factors affecting demand

• Components of demand

• Demand fluctuations

• Demand forecasting

• Population forecasting methods

Water Intake

• Intake of water

• Types of intake

• Intake Structures

• Conveyance and intake conduits

• Freeflow and Pressure flow systems

• Pumps and their capacity estimation

• Economic diameter of water supply pipes

Treatment Philosophy

• Storage structures

• Reservoir designing

• Storage Capacity of Distribution Reservoirs

• Mass curve concepts

• Design considerations for hourly, daily, weekly and seasonal regulation

Water Quality and Treatment

• Water quality assurance

• Water quality standards

• Philosophy of treatment

• Unit operations and unit processes

• Theory and operations ofaeration, sedimentation

Conventional Water Treatment

• Coagulation and flocculation

• Clariflocculation

• Filtration: Slow and rapid gravity filter, multi-media filters and pressure filters

Water Treatment

• Disinfection and Advanced Treatment: Disinfection through chlorination and other methods

• Advanced methods of water treatment

• Advanced oxidation processes

• Removal of iron and manganese, hardness, fluorides, colour, taste and odour, dissolved metals and gases

Water Distribution Networks

• Water Distribution

• Hydraulics of pipe network design

• Layouts of Distribution Network

• Pipe network analysis

• Hardy Cross method

Water Losses and Control

• Water-losses in water supply systems

• Concepts of NRW and UFW

• Apparent and real losses

• Water loss detection methods

• Water lossesreduction strategies

Advanced Water Distribution Design Approaches

• Sectorization of distribution networks

• DMA Demarcation

• Advantages and risks; Software for network design (WaterGEMS and EPANET)

Automation in Water Supply

• Real time monitoring and control

• SCADA

• studies of WTP automation

• Automation in distribution systems

• Concept of Smart Water Supply System

Water Economics and Pricing

• Economics of water supply systems

• Calculation of investments and operational costs

• Cost optimization

• Approaches of water metering

• Water pricing for sustainability

• Issues and approaches

• Existing water pricing models

• Case studies