Water Utilities Management Capacity Building Program (WUM-CBP)

The Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA) and Engicon O&M in cooperation with the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Solid Waste (DWA)  launched  the Water Utilities Management Capacity Building Program (WUM-CBP). WUM-CBP offers a series of training modules in the following areas:

1- Non-Revenue Water Management

2- Operation & Maintenance of Water & Wastewater Facilities

3- GIS application for Water Utilities

                       4- Planning & Design for Water and Wastewater Systems

The Water utilities Management Capacity Building Program (WUM-CBP) which is certified by DWA, ACWUA and Engicon is addressing specific technical topic’s like:

• Operations & Maintenance of Water Pumping Stations

The training course aims to train the operators how to operate and maintain water pumping stations overcome common daily problems, and relevant health and safety measurements

• Operations & Maintenance of Water Distribution Networks

The training aims to enhance the skills of the technicians on the safe and effective practices in performing the operation and maintenance works that ensures their personal safety, the safety of equipment they are operating and the work e

• Operations & Maintenance of Water Treatment Plants

This course is designed to train the operators to safely and effectively operate and maintain water treatment plant

• Operations & Maintenance of Wastewater Treatment Plants

This course is designed to train the operators to safely and effectively operate and maintain wastewater treatment plants

• Operations & Maintenance of Sewage Networks

The training aims to enhance the skills of the technicians on the safe and effective practices in performing the operation and maintenance works that ensures their personal safety, the safety of equipment they are operating and the work environment.

• Operations & Maintenance of Sewage Pumping Stations

The training course aims to train the operators how to operate and maintain sewage pumping station overcome common daily problems, and relevant health and safety measurement

• Basic Level: Non Revenue Water Management

This course aims at explaining the main components of NRW and identifies them in the water supply system as well as enhancing the capacity of the water utilities staff in designing and implementing NRW countermeasures.

• Medium Level: Non Revenue Water Management

This training course aims at enabling the participants to be familiar with the concepts and approaches of non revenue water management and reduction approaches of water utilities to enhance the financial and environmental sustainability. Also, this course aims at improving the planning and design of the water systems strategies and reducing the complaint response time

• Advanced Level: Non Revenue Water Management

the objectives of this course is to provide the engineers and technicians responsible for operation and maintenance of water systems with essential knowledge and mechanism of Non Revenue Water NRW) management as well as to train them on reduction of NRW using leak detection equipments and) District Metering area method

• Basic Course: GIS for Water Utilities

This training course aims to introduce the water professionals to the geographic information system GIS) as well as its application in planning, design and implementation in the water and wastewater sector.

• Advanced Course: GIS for Water Utilities

This training course aims to develop and strength the GIS skills of the water professionals in planning design and implementation of water, wastewater and environmental projects

WUM-CBP Training Plan 2012