Hands-on Basic Laboratory Training for Working Professionals in Faecal Sludge Management

About the training 

Management of sanitation system has been a long term challenge, explicitly for low and middle

income countries like India. Nevertheless, Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) is an evolving field worldwide with continual development and improvement happening in research methodologies.Therefore, skill development for testing the quality of faecal sludge and treated wastewater becomes the primary objective. This course focuses on some of the basic and recent advances in laboratory analysis ofphyisco-chemical and biological parameters of faecal sludge. This training is part of the Centre for Science and Environment and Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation collaboration on FSM in India. In-house experts and lab scientists from CSE’s Environment Monitoring Laboratory (EML) will guide participants through the sessions and help them learn lab analysis using state-of-the-art equipment and methods. The hands-on approach for the program means that participants get to perform the lab experiments on their own and can enhance their skills while working on some of the best equipment and protocols in their class. The training will be held in CSE’s residential campus in Nimli, near Alwar, Rajasthan.

What you will learn

• Introduction to faecal sludge management and faecal sludge treatment approaches and technologies
• Sample collection, storage and transportation
• Safety measures to be taken during handling of faecal sludge
• Physio-chemical analysis of faecal sludge
• Biological analysis of faecal sludge
• Analytical equipment calibration and methodology validation.
• Good laboratory practices

Methodology

Highly interactive hands-on training

• Interactive input presentations
• Field visit to faecal sludge treatment plant fortechnology demonstration.
• Analytical equipment calibration (pH meter, Micropipette, Glassware’s, Centrifuge, Balance, Spectrometer) and methodology validation.
• Analysis of physico-chemical parameters such as pH.Total solids, BOD, COD, TKN,Ammoniacal nitrogen, and Total phosphate
• Analysis of microbial parameters such as faecal coliform and coliin faecal sludge
• A hands-on testing of Helminths egg enumeration in faecal sludge

Training Coordinator's

Mr. Arvind Singh Senger
Principal Scientist
arvindsingh.senger@cseindia.org
Phone: +91 8879948011

Dr. Rajarshi Banerjee
Director- Laboratory
rajarshi.banerjee@cseindia.org
Phone: +91 9903048060