ACP-EU Cooperation programs in Higher Education (EDULINK)

A program of the ACP Group of States, with the financial assistance of the European Union and

the Dutch Government

Short Courses for the Water Sector in the Caribbean Region

To be held in

2011 at the

University of the West Indies, Trinidad

University of Guyana, Guyana

INTRODUCTION

The Caribbean Region is increasingly facing challenges in the water sector. In towns and rural areas water

supply and wastewater companies are trying to upgrade their systems and implement new schemes. Water

losses are being managed but the sector is vulnerable to droughts. Along the coast and rivers public works

departments are coping with the effects of hurricanes and floods. Water resources authorities are assisting

the sector and take their responsibility in carrying out studies and continue their monitoring programs.

To assist the Caribbean water sector in extending their knowledge base, the project Capacity Building for

Water Programs in Higher Education in the

Caribbean is offering short courses. A fine

selection of water courses has been made based on

the availability of expertise in the region, the sector

demand, and the scope for embedding the activities

in established educational programs. The courses

presented in English will be of 5 day duration and

take place in the middle of 2011. The following

short courses in the scientific fields of water

supply and waste water, river engineering, and in hydrology and water resources are offered by

UNESCO-IHE, the University of the West Indies, the University of Guyana, the College of Science,

Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Water Resources Agency of Trinidad and

Tobago:

WATER SUPPLY AND WASTE WATER

5-DAY COURSE IN WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT (Dr. S.

SHARMA/UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES)

23 to 27 May 2011 at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad

This course aims to provide participants with a better understanding of theoretical concepts and practical

aspects of water distribution system design, operation and management. The main topics covered in this

course include: (i) Basics of water distribution systems: water demand and peak factors, flow in pipes,

major and minor head losses, components of the water distribution system, (ii) Water loss management:

Different types of water losses in the distribution system and their causes, benefits of water loss

management, reduction and control of real and apparent losses, leak detection, pressure management,

(iii) Water quality in distribution systems: Factors affecting water quality in the distribution system,

corrosion of water pipes, monitoring and maintaining microbial and chemical water quality in

distribution systems, (iv) Urban water demand management: Need for demand management and its

benefits, water demand management approaches, specific water demand management measures, case

studies.

5-DAY COURSE IN MODELING WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS (Dr. D.

BRDANOVIC/UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES)

30 May to 3 June 2011 at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad

This short course focusing on waste water treatment intends to familiarize the participants with all aspects

of waste water treatment modeling using a

combination of theoretical and practical - case study-

classes. In detail the content of the course is as

follows (i) Review and introduction - review of waste

water treatment processes, introduction to waste water

modeling, (ii) Modeling considerations - application

of modeling protocols, wastewater characterization,

(iii) Models and simulators - the use of simulators,

modeling case studies, (iv) Practicals - how to work

with the waste water treatment models, how to use

simulators, (v) Workshop - workshop on the modeling of a waste water treatment plant in Trinidad and

Tobago.

5-DAY COURSE IN ADVANCED WATER TREATMENT (Dr. S. SHARMA/UNIVERSITY OF THE

WEST INDIES)

17 to 21 October 2011 at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad

This specialized course on water treatment aims to elaborate on mechanisms and suitability/application

of various advanced water treatment methods for the removal of emerging contaminants (microbes and

organic micro-pollutants) to produce high quality drinking and industrial water. The main topics covered

in this course include: (i) Adsorption Processes and Activated Carbon: Basic principles of adsoprtion and

adsorption isotherms, breakthrough curves, fixed bed adsorbers, adsorption processes in water treatment

for removal of heavy metals and organic micro-pollutants, activated carbon filtration (powered and

granular), biological activated carbon filtration (ii) Ozonation and Advanced Oxidation Processes:

Application of ozone and hydrogen peroxide in water treatment, advanced oxidation processes including

different combinations of ozone, hydrogen peroxide and UV (iii) Removal of Natural Organic Matter

and Organic Micro-pollutants: Sources of natural organic matter (NOM) and organic micro-pollutants in

water; treatment technologies of their removal, (iv) Membrane Technology and Desalination:

Fundamentals of membrane technology, an overview of different types of membrane filtration

(microfiltration, ultra-filtration, nano-filtration and reverse osmosis) and their applications in water

treatment and water reuse.

RIVER ENGINEERING

5-DAY COURSE IN RIVER PROCESSES (Dr. L. BRANDIMARTE/UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST

INDIES)

23 to 27 May at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad

Upon completion of this course, the participants will be able to understand the principles of river

morphodynamics, to determine the (short and long term) responses of the river to human intervention on

the natural river behavior, and to create a preliminary hydraulic design of selected structures for river

training. The contents of this course will be

(i) Basics of hydraulics: The basic principles

of open channel flows will be refreshed:

uniform flows, rapid and gradually varied

flows, water surface profiles, (ii)

Introduction to river morphodynamics:

River morphology at different spatial scales,

river patterns, morphodynamic processes

(erosion, deposition and transport of

sediment, bank failure, bank accretion) with

resulting phenomena and their temporal scales, short term morphodynamic effects: Exner's principle,

development of a trench and a shoal, celerity of bed-level perturbations, long term morphodynamic effects

at the reach scale, and (iii) River training works: Interaction between flow and river training works,

structures to control sediment transport.

5-DAY COURSE IN RIVER MODELING (Dr. S. MASKEY/UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES)

30 May to 3 June 2011 at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad

The aim of this short course is to familiarize participants with all aspects of rainfall-runoff and river

hydrodynamic modeling. The content of this course will

focus on (i) Numerical equations for river flow

applications - exposure to the structure of equation

systems, numerical solution techniques and their

representation in modeling systems, (ii) Rainfall-runoff

modeling - model building and model calibration,

validation with hands on exercises and case-study to

gain practical experience, (iii) Hydrodynamic modeling

of river flow - model schematization and set up,

simulation of flood wave propagation, case-study

approach to practice hydrodynamic modeling. MIKE 11

or HEC software will be used for hydrodynamic river flow simulation and appropriate hydrological

modeling software will be used for rainfall-runoff simulation.

5-DAY COURSE IN FLOOD CONTROL MEASURES (Dr. M. WERNER/UNIVERSITY OF THE

WEST INDIES)

17 to 21 October 2011 at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad

This short course focuses on familiarizing participants with some of the most common measures adopted

for flood control, including structural and non-structural methods and flood management planning. The

main topics to be addressed are: (i) Integrated Flood Risk Management: this part of the course will give an

overview of the flood risk management techniques and will allow participants to get familiar with the risk

associated to flooding, (ii) Structural measures for flood protection: this part of the course will focus on

the main structural solutions adopted in river engineering for flood protection. In particular, the hydraulic

design of selected structures will be presented, (iii) Non structural measures for flood protection: the final

part of the course will focus on the non-structural interventions commonly adopted for flood protection.

HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES

5-DAY COURSE IN ADVANCED SURFACE HYDROLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION AND

ANALYSIS (Dr. R. VENNEKER/CIMH)

6 to 10 June 2011 at the University of Guyana, Guyana

The objective of this training course is to update the participants with necessary skills and knowledge of

water resources monitoring and assessment, possibly in data scarce regions. This course will cover (i)

Hydrological services and data exchange - international/regional collaboration and exchanging

experience, (ii) Hydrological observing networks - types of

networks, design criteria, network analysis, (iii) WMO

standards and guidelines in hydrological and hydro-

meteorological practice, (iv) Hydrological measurements -

existing practices, modern instruments and emerging

technologies for observations, data transmission and data

storage, (v) Data quality control and analysis - aspects of

instrument calibration, exploratory data analysis and evaluation,

data base management and organization, (vi) Evaluation and

assessment of water resources - summarizing data and

extraction of information from data, (vii) Retrieval and use of public data sources, and (viii) Hydrological

data products and information dissemination. A field visit to a hydrological/hydro-meteorological

observing station is also foreseen.

5-DAY COURSE IN ADVANCED GROUNDWATER DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS (J.C.

NONNER, MSC/ UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA)

13 to 17 June 2011 at the University of Guyana, Guyana

The aim of this course is to provide participants with a mix of 'state of the art' and 'advanced' groundwater

data collection (exploration) and interpretation techniques. This course will entail: (i) Hydro-geological

mapping, remote sensing and well inventories - preparatory methods that form a basis for further field

surveying, (ii) Geophysical (geo-electrical) measurements and their interpretation - field planning,

execution and interpretation of the measurements using the GEWIN-Excel interpretation code, (iii) Well

drilling and data interpretation - site selection and drilling and borehole logging methods with log

interpretation, (iv) Advanced pumping test analysis - pumping test set up, execution and interpretation

with the AQUIFER TEST software, (v) Modern methods for groundwater level and quality measurements

- introduction to groundwater monitoring and taking and interpreting data with electronic data (Diver)

loggers.

5-DAY COURSE IN GROUNDWATER MODELING (DR Y. ZHOU/UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA)

26 to 30 September 2011 at the University of Guyana, Guyana

This course intends to familiarize participants with groundwater flow, transport and density driven

modeling. Starting with an explanation on the purpose of modeling, the main topics that will be covered

include (i) Conceptual model - conceptualization of aquifer-aquitard systems, specification of boundary

conditions, hydrological stresses, (ii) Design of a numerical model - finite-difference solutions of flow

problems, steady versus unsteady model, one layer versus multi-layer model, lay-out of grids, stress

period/time steps, (iii) Model inputs - initial conditions, boundary conditions, hydro-geological

parameters, hydrological stresses, (iv) Model calibration and validation - calibration procedures, concept

of model validation, (v) Model prediction -

purposes of prediction, simulation of scenarios,

determination of capture zones (vi) Contaminant

transport processes and mechanisms - advective

transport, dispersion and diffusion, (vii)

Contaminant transport models - mass fluxes,

mass balance equations, initial conditions,

boundary conditions (vii) Numerical solutions -

Finite differences, method of characteristics, (vii)

Applied modeling of contaminant transport -

problem definition, purpose of modeling, conceptual model, design of numerical model, model

calibration, sensitivity analysis, model application, (vii) Density modeling - recalculation of salt water

heads, incorporation of the density component. Exercises will be done with PMWIN-MODFLOW

software and the coupled PMPATH, MT3D and SEAWAT codes. Hand out of- and demo sessions with a

case study area model.

METHODS OF INSTRUCTION

The courses will be delivered in the form of presentations and practical workshops typically covering a

minimum of 6 contact hours per day. Field visits to sites of interest may be conducted as part of the course

program. For the Advanced Surface Hydrological Data Collection and Analysis Course in particular,

special attention is given to hydrological activities and collaboration in the Caribbean region, and

participants will also prepare a short presentation, possibly using own data, to outline and discuss a

specific data problem from their practical experience.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The short courses are aiming to attract

professionals from water sector

organizations including government

departments and agencies, water supply

and waste water companies, and

consultants. Staff from educational and

research institutions are also invited. The

professionals have obtained diplomas or

degrees in civil or other branches of

engineering, meteorology, geology, or

other related fields. The candidates should preferably have followed basic training in the mentioned

scientific fields and been exposed to relevant working experience.

MATERIALS AND CERTIFICATE

Lecture notes will be handed out as paper copies and on CD Rom. Extensive use will be made of water

software and where applicable this software will be delivered free of charge. A Certificate will be handed

over to the participant upon completion of the course.

ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS AND CONTACTS

Organizing institutions are the partners and associate in the project Capacity Building for Water

Programs in Higher Education in the Caribbean including UNESCO-IHE of The Netherlands, the

University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago, the University of Guyana in Guyana, the College of

Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago in Trinidad, and the Water Resources

Agency of Trinidad and Tobago.

In case you would like to attend a course please register through the site of UNESCO-IHE where a special

introduction page for the upcoming water courses in

the Caribbean has been created at: www.unesco-

ihe.org/cwc. Please download the registration form

from this site. The filled out form can be send by E-

mail to the registrar Marlies Baburek of UNESCO-

IHE at m.baburek@unesco-ihe.org. For any further

questions on registration you can contact Jan Nonner

of UNESCO-IHE at j.nonner@unesco-ihe.org. For

information on course content you may contact Dr

Vincent Cooper of the University of the West Indies at

vincent.cooper@sta.uwi.edu, Maxwell Jackson of the University of Guyana at mbosi168@yahoo.com or

Jan Nonner of UNESCO-IHE at the mentioned e-mail address.

FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS

The fee for each short course is 200 US$ per participant. This amount also includes a (warm) lunch and

drinks during breaks. Travelling expenses are at the cost of the attending professional or his organization.

However, the capacity building project does have financial resources to compensate at a daily rate of 50

US$ for hotel/guesthouse accommodation for those participants not residing in the countries where the

courses are held.

ACCOMMODATION

The organizing institutions can assist with arranging accommodation. Lists with hotels and guesthouses

including price ranges and any applicable discounts, both in Trinidad and Guyana, will be made available

to the participants.

BACKGROUND OF KEY TEACHING STAFF

Luigia Brandimarte: Lecturer in Hydraulic Engineering & River Basin Development

Dr. Brandimarte graduated in Environmental Engineering at the University of Bologna -Italy- in 2001, discussing a MSc thesis on flood propagation models. She took her PhD in Hydraulic Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano -Italy- in 2005, discussing a thesis on a probabilistic approach to estimate scour depth around bridge piers in cohesive soils. She developed her PhD topic in collaboration with the University of Virginia -USA-. She worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna until 2007 and collaborated as consultant engineer with the Po river plan bureau of land reclamation and irrigation in Modena -Italy-. In the year 2008 she was appointed as project manager for the Hydroaid Association -Italy-. She has also been involved as a lecturer and as a project coordinator in several capacity building projects and Master programs in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, South America and Kazakhstan. In January 2009 she joined UNESCO-IHE as a Lecturer in Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development. She is responsible for the course of River Structures within the core of Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development. Dr. Brandimarte main research and training interests lie on hydraulic structures and flood risks.

Damir Brdanovic: Professor of Sanitary Engineering

As a graduate engineer Mr. Brdjanovic started his professional career in the water industry in 1988 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he was responsible for the design of drinking water treatment plants and water supply systems. In 1990 he joined the Institute for Water Resources Development in Sarajevo and managed process design on a variety of wastewater treatment projects. His international career started in 1993 with

North West Water Engineering in UK, as a wastewater process engineer working on large wastewater treatment projects in the UK and the Czech Republic. Throughout his professional career, Mr. Brdjanovic has managed a number of large and complicated engineering projects, education projects and advisory assignments, often multi-disciplinary in nature and involving conflicting interests. After several years working in water and wastewater industry Mr. Brdjanovic pursued an academic career jointly at Delft University of Technology and UNESCO-IHE where he received his doctoral degree in 1998. After spending another five years working internationally as a senior advisor for the consultancy firm Royal Haskoning, Dr. Brdjanovic started the second academic chapter of his career at UNESCO-IHE in 2002. At UNESCO-IHE he has convincingly demonstrated his organizational skills and leadership capabilities in an academic environment. He has initiated the development and implementation of innovative didactic approaches in education within the Masters Program in Municipal Water and Infrastructure. Prof. Brdjanovic has developed his own research lines, namely in the areas of advanced biological nutrient removal and activated sludge modeling. His research

focus is currently expanding into (i) urban wastewater management integrating sewage collection, urban drainage and wastewater treatment (and beyond), (ii) the use of seawater in sanitation, (iii) sludge management, and (iv) sanitation provision to the urban poor. Prof. Brdjanovic has a sound publication record featuring recently published textbook on Biological Wastewater Treatment: Principles, Modeling and Design.

Jan Nonner: Associate Professor of Hydrogeology

Jan C. Nonner (1948) obtained his Master of Science degree in Hydrogeology at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1972. On contract basis employed by consultancies and governments in Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Ethiopia, and Australia, he supervised and analyzed the results of field investigations for groundwater development programs. In 1983, he joined UNESCO-IHE for the first time, and stationed on Barbados, he was in charge of a hydrological training program for the Caribbean. In 1985, Jan C. Nonner took up a post with a Dutch consultancy firm and was involved in groundwater assessments in various countries, mainly in the developing world. For the second time, he joined IHE in 1989 where he was, and still is, involved in curriculum development, lecturing, and MSc research. The UNESCO-IHE lectures on Hydrogeology, Groundwater Exploration and the Integrated Group work Training are his responsibility. In addition Jan C. Nonner is involved in missions to various countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean to assist in setting up Water programs at universities, to present lectures or to complete research or consultancy work.

Shreedhar Maskey: Senior Lecturer in Hydrology

Dr. Shreedhar Maskey, born in Nepal, holds a PhD degree (2004) with the thesis title "Modeling Uncertainty in Flood Forecasting Systems" from Delft University of Technology/ UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands, MSc degree (1999) in Hydroinformatics with distinction from IHE Delft, Netherlands and BE degree (1991) in civil engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Specialized in hydroinformatic systems, at present he is Senior Lecturer in Hydrology and Water Resources at UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands. His working experience ranges from research and teaching to modeling systems development and professional civil engineering designs. His key areas of expertise and interest are process-based distributed hydrological and hydraulic modeling, flood forecasting, uncertainty analysis and climate change impacts and adaptation at a river basin scale. He developed large scale distributed models for flow forecasting for Yellow River basin in China. Currently, he is also a coordinator of the research project 'Adaptation to Global Changes in Agricultural Practices' (focused in a Himalayan River Basin) and advisor for developing an Aral Sea Basis Management

Model. He also supervises a number of PhD research projects in Asia and Africa.

Saroj Sharma: Senior Lecturer in Water Supply Technologies

Dr Sharma graduated in Civil Engineering with distinction in 1988 (M.R.Engineering College, University of Rajasthan, India), completed his MSc in Sanitary Engineering with distinction in 1997 (IHE Delft, The Netherlands) and did his PhD in Groundwater Treatment in 2001(Wageningen University and IHE Delft, The Netherlands). He is specialized in water supply engineering - water quality, treatment and distribution. He has 22 years of professional and academic experience in planning, design, implementation, and operation and maintenance of urban, semi-urban and community-based rural water supply projects. He has worked with several government agencies, international consultants and donors (UNICEF, WHO, ADB, WB) in various water supply projects in different parts of the world. His teaching and research interests are in the field of physicochemical treatment processes (filtration and adsorption based processes), natural treatment systems (bank filtration and soil aquifer treatment), water transport and distribution (water loss management, urban water demand management, corrosion of water pipes) and decentralized water supply systems for small towns and urban areas.

Raymond Venneker: Senior Lecturer in Hydrology

Dr Venneker studied structural geology at Utrecht University, and hydrology and hydrogeology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He was employed as scientific staff member by the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit, engaged in contract research and lecturing. He acquired substantial field experience -- in particular in mountainous terrain. A doctorate study resulted in a dissertation entitled "A Distributed Hydrological Modeling Concept for Alpine Environments" in 1996. Dr. Venneker joined UNESCO-IHE (then: IHE Delft) Hydrology and Water Resources Core staff in 1997. His responsibilities include lecturing, supervising MSc students and PhD fellows, conducting applied research, and project execution. He was seconded to Birzeit University in the West Bank, Palestine, as resident advisor for the WASCAPAL project for 18 months until early 2001. Teaching activities include hydrology, data collection and processing, physically-based catchment modeling, fieldwork, and water resources and climate. Research interest and activities are directed towards hydrological modeling of large river basins and investigating the role of the land surface in the hydrological cycle. Co-development of a large-scale hydrological model led to the implementation of an operational distributed flow simulation and forecasting model for the Yellow River in China.

Yangziao Zhou: Associate Professor of Hydrogeology

He was born in Gansu, China, in 1958. He received the BSc in Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology from Hebei College of Geology, China in 1982. After the graduation, he continued a postgraduate study in Hydrogeology at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in Beijing and

received the MSc degree in 1985 and his PhD in 1988, both with distinction. From July 1988 to June 1990, he participated in a joint hydrogeological research project as a visiting scholar at the Netherlands Institute of Applied Geosciences. He has joined UNESCO-IHE as a lecturer/researcher since June 1990. Dr. Zhou has broad research interests and extensive experience in the design of groundwater monitoring networks with hydrogeological approaches, geostatistical methods and time series analysis; in stochastic and deterministic modeling of groundwater flow and transport; and in the optimization of groundwater systems for sustainable development. He has developed several computer codes (KALMOD, FREQ, and NETGRAPH) and is an author of more than 50 scientific publications. He has been lecturing on Hydrogeostatistics, Groundwater Hydraulics, Groundwater Monitoring, and Applied Groundwater Modeling. Dr. Zhou has also international experience in postgraduate education and institution capacity building projects. He was assigned as project manager for the Sana'a University support project from January

1994 to June 1995 for the development and implementation of a Master of Science program in Water and Environmental Engineering. He has developed and implemented 10 tailor-made postgraduate training programs for the Ministry of Water Resources of China from 1996 to 2008. He has implemented two large applied groundwater research projects in China from 2000 to 2008.

Micha Werner: Senior Lecturer in Hydraulic Engineering

Dr. Micha Werner is Senior Lecturer in Flood Risk Management and River Basin Development at UNESCO-IHE. Within the MSc programme at UNESCO-IHE he lectures on the subjects of flood management and river basin development & management. He is involved in the supervision of

several MSc and PhD students. He has also given a number of guest lectures, including at Delft University and Lancaster University (UK), as well as invited keynote lectures at international scientific conferences. The main research interest of Dr Werner are on the application of hydrological and hydraulic models and data in operational flood forecasting, with a particular focus on forecast verification and on dealing with uncertainties and how uncertainties are presented and communicated within the operational setting. Besides a strong focus on operational forecasting, he has been closely involved in the wider scope of flood risk analysis, obtaining a PhD in uncertainties in flood inundation modelling at the Delft University of Technology, as well as participating in several key European research projects. He has actively participated in several international scientific conferences, and has published several papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, as well as book chapters in scientific collections. Dr. Werner is corresponding overseas panel member for the editorial advisory panel of the ICE Journal of Water Management. In addition to his position at UNESCO-IHE, where Dr. Werner is appointed for

40% of his time, he also holds a position as Senior Hydrologist/Researcher at Deltares-Delft Hydraulics for the remaining 60% of his time. Within the Operational Water Management group at Delft Hydraulics his main focus is on establishing operational flood forecasting, warning and response systems. Dr. Werner was one of the principal designers of the DELFT-FEWS flood forecasting system, now applied in over 20 operational forecasting centres across the world. As technical leader to a team of people involved in this activity, Dr. Werner is responsible for the technical management, research and innovation in the development of flood forecasting systems.