Online Training on Tools and Approaches for Water and Sanitation Management

Dates: June 5 - 14, 2021

The School of Water & Waste, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organized an state of the art tailor-made online training on “Tools and Approaches for Water and Sanitation Management” from 5th-14th June, 2021. This training was attended by total of 35 participants including 21 participants from Jamia Millia Islamia University (16 students pursuing M.Arch in Urban Regeneration and 5 distinguished faculty members), 11 interns and few internal staff at CSE.

The training aimed of creating change-agents in the water and sanitation sector, who has in-depth understanding of key tools and approaches for citywide water and sanitation management. The training has been divided into two modules and the methodology followed was online cum virtual which included a total of 16 study hours (10 hrs Moodle + 6 hrs Zoom). All the interactive virtual sessions have been supported by reading/reference materials uploaded on the Moodle Platform which helped participants to have an in-depth understanding of the respective topic.

The first module was designed for developing the basic understanding of the tools and approaches and its application in citywide planning while the another module focused on few specific tools and approaches which are widely used in water and sanitation domain such as Shit Flow Diagram, SaniPath, FSM Toolbox, SaniKit, MOUNT, CSP, WSP, SSP, Water Audit and Water Balance, Decentralized Wastewater Management etc.

Additionally, in the first module participants were given exposure to various government managed web portals and monitoring indices which gave participants a better understanding about the various informative - monitoring platforms as well as control indicators for various segments of the water and sanitation management.

The four virtual sessions were planned to develop an in-depth understanding of few of the important tools through interaction and exercises. The sessions were conducted by in-house experts as well as invited guest experts.

Mr. P Z Thomas a guest expert having vast experience in the environmental sector explained about the concept of water audit and water balance to the participants at various scales through computations and case studies. Other virtual sessions were conducted by CSEs in-house experts on topics related to Shit Flow Diagram (SFD), Decentralized Wastewater Management and Planning/Designing of DWWTs.

The final day had two brainstorming exercises related to planning of decentralized wastewater treatment systems and water audit & water balance. At the end of the training, participants have been given an opportunity of presenting their group exercises and learnings from the respective sessions.

The training had been concluded with a closing speech and feedback session moderated by CSEs Senior Director Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla and Dr Hina Zia from JMI University. Participants seemed to be happy about the course material and interactive sessions and also shared their individual key learnings and take away.