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The Pro-Aquifer project is a project which addresses the protection of groundwater
resources from pollution, in the context of shared Israeli-Palestinian groundwater,
from the unique perspective of local municipalities. This project aims to help
municipalities identify polluting activities in their boundaries, as well as develop policy
mechanisms and techniques on preventing groundwater pollution.
The project aims to directly improve the capacity of municipal staff to alleviate pollution
stresses on groundwater through the training of professionals on relevant pollution prevention
activities, including sewage treatment technology, sewage treatment management, GIS applications
and the use of the guidelines developed.
Each of these training courses is described in full below.
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Course #1- Sewage Treatment Technologies
Course #1, “Sewage Treatment Technologies”, provided 13 trainees (water engineers and
developers from 5 municipalities and 2 private organizations) with essential knowledge
and experience on subjects related to various treatment technologies in urban and rural
scales, as well as maintenance and operation of treatment plants in order to enhance the
capabilities of municipal staff in maintaining municipal sewage networks so as to prevent
groundwater pollution.
The trainees of Course #1 gained knowledge and experience on the following topics:
• Pollution of groundwater
• Various sources of domestic and industrial pollution
• Wastewater characteristics
• Overview of wastewater treatment
• Basic aspects of wastewater sampling and quality analysis
• Processes and technologies of industrial pre-treatment
• Reuse of treated wastewater
• Sewage network maintenance and inspection plans
• Application of GIS in water pollution and waste water
• Overview of water contamination and water-borne diseases
The trainees had the opportunity to discuss with the trainers the local problems in their
wastewater networks. A number of problems were discussed and solutions were offered by the
trainers and by other participants. Participants gained from the discussions of problems faced by
certain municipalities and how they were overcome. In particular, the problem of the highly
hazardous effluent from olive mills was discussed along some ideas for alleviating this hazard.
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Training program
List of Trainers
List of Trainees
Training Materials:
Advanced Technologies Industrial Treatment- Rana Habash
GIS Jumana Dec 09 07
Industrial Pre-treatment -Rana Habash.ppt
Introduction to Public Health - Asia Issa
Municipal Sewage Collection - Treatment and Reuse
- Nael Tahseen
Preventive Measures Against Water-Born Disease
Suitability of Wastewater forIirrigation - M. Sbeih
Transboundary Water Resources
Wastewater Sampling and Treatment - Subhi Samhan
Water Related Diseases - Asia Issa
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Course #2 - Sewage Treatment Management
Course #2 covered topics concerning “Sewage Treatment Management”. The participants,
which were composed of 12 water and wastewater managers from 7 different municipalities
and 2 NGOs, were presented with fundamental information and knowledge on topics concerning
the planning of sewage infrastructure, financing mechanisms, and legal obligations.
Course #2, which was aimed mainly for sewage treatment managers, provided the trainees with
information on:
• Wastewater characteristics
• Pre-treatment of wastewater
• Palestinian and Israeli wastewater management
• Development of environmentally and economically sound wastewater management
systems
• Network maintenance and inspection plans
• Network monitoring measures
• Overview of administrative and enforcement measures available to municipalities
Enforcement
of pre-treatment
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Training Program
List of Trainers
List of Trainees
Training Materials:
Enforcement of Water Regulations
GIS Applications-Jamal Zetawi
Network Maintanence - Emad Al-Masri
Pre-Treatment for Domestic and Industrial - Nael Tahseen
Regional Water Resources - Deeb Abdel Ghafoor
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Course #3- GIS applications
The Pro-Aquifer project is a project which addresses the protection of shared groundwater
resources from pollution by municipalities. The project aims to directly improve the
capacity of municipal staff to alleviate pollution stresses on groundwater through the
training of professionals on relevant pollution prevention activities. This was one of
the first GIS training programs that was held in the new HWE GIS computer lab, by Eng.
Jumana Abu Sada, from 11-18 October 2008.
The purpose of this training course was to train Palestinian municipal staff in the use of the
ArcGIS tool and its applications in water. Municipal staff was trained in data collection,
creation of datasets, and water applications in GIS among other topics.
This training course provided 48 training hours to 10 engineers from different Palestinian
municipalities.
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Course #4- Use of Guidelines- Developing municipal policy to protect groundwater
The fourth Pro-Aquifer training course targeted primarily municipal staff, including city
engineers, environmental officers, sanitation officers and other relevant staff. This
course was held in the Notre Dame, Jerusalem from November 3-5, 2008.
The main objective of course #4 was the familiarization of participants with the guidelines
developed within the project to alleviate pollution sources within municipal jurisdiction,
including sewage treatment, solid waste management, and control and monitoring of industrial
activity, and others.
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