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The French National Water Training Center
2015 Training on
”Water - Irrigation and Agriculture”
2015 Training program for ”industry”
For several years, the IOWater-FNWTC
training program for industrialists has
been regrouped in a specific catalogue.
In the catalogue for 2015, FNWTC pro-
poses 64 trainingmodules, divided into
82 training courses on the following
topics:
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Regulations, quality, security and
the environment:
Classified Installa-
tions for Environmental Protection, water
abstractions and effluent discharges, ana-
lysis of water quality, validity of analyses
of industrial wastewater, operation and
maintenance of sensors and self-monito-
ring systems, hygiene and safety, pollu-
tion removal on polluted sites, etc.
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Drilling, pumping, maintenance and
automation:
operating a borehole,
choice and installation of a pump, equip-
ment maintenance, wiring and automa-
tion programming.
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Water production and distribution:
production of clean industrial water,
water disinfection,water softening,water
purification, ion exchange resins, reverse
osmosis, boiler and coolingwater, techni-
cal and health rules in internal systems.
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Treatment of industrial wastewa-
ter and sludge treatment:
design
and sizing of facilities, operation of
treatment plants, biogas recovery,
reuse of treated water, use of mem-
brane aeration reactors, treatment
and recycling of sludge, operating a
deodorization unit.
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Effluent treatment in surface
treatment processes.
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Sustainabledevelopment, energy
and waste:
electric energy savings,
strategy for the use of renewable
energy, carbon footprint, sustainable
development approach, chemical
waste management in the laboratory,
waste characterization and reduction.
Today, employees’ safety is a major
issue in a company:
in addition to pro-
fessional knowledge and skills, know-
ledge and specific behaviors need to be
learned and strengthened.
In this context,
the IOWater-FNWTC cata-
logue offers, in 2015, 8 new training
courses focusingon safetyatwork:
First-
aid Officer, Personal Protective Equipment,
Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus, preven-
tion of risks related to manual handling,
transportation of Dangerous Goods, aware-
ness to explosive atmospheres through play,
crewmember for first fire response.
TheFNWTC
alsoexpands its training curricu-
lum for qualification, proposed in response to
regulatory requirements andneeds for valida-
tion of professional skills: sampling of hazar-
dous substances in the environment, hand-
ling of chlorine in bottles...
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Since 2013, the IOWater-FNWTC has
been proposing a catalogue specifically
addressed to professionals in irrigation
and agriculture, with 18 training
modules, divided into 26 sessions on
the topics:
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Design and sizing of irrigation systems.
l
Management and operation of irrigation
systems.
l
Water resources for agriculture.
l
Treatment and recovery of agricultural
effluents.
Precise management of water resources,
reuse of agricultural effluents, control of land
application ... arematters that require specia-
lized skills and trained and qualified profes-
sionals.
In 2015,
FNWTC
has included one new
course in the catalogue:
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Control of land application of agri-
cultural liquidmanure.
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IOWater-FNWTC’s complete trainingoffer
canbe consultedon thewebsite:
Upon request, all these training courses
may be carried out in English for
groups of trainees.
The News N° 25 - February 2015
