The 18th Technicians Training Course of Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) was launched here Monday at the Council’s head office, says a press release.
Forty sub-engineers and technicians working in different water sector organisations of Federal Area, Punjab, Balochistan, NWFP and Fata are participating in this weeklong course. This capacity building activity is one of the five components of PCRWR’s project ‘Provision of Safe Drinking Water’ under which the Council has, by now, given comprehensive training to over 800 personnel working in water related departments, providing them with the latest know-how about water quality monitoring and testing, water borne diseases, assessment of water supply schemes, disinfection/ treatment of polluted water, rainwater harvesting, and preservation, transportation and analysis of water samples for microbiological and chemical examinations, etc.
Guest speaker Khalid Siddique, Director General Ministry of Science & Technology, Dr Aslam Tahir, Director General (Water Quality), Dr AD Khan, Director (Hydrology), and Faizan-ul-Hassan, Deputy Director PCRWR, delivered lectures on the technical aspects in this regard while Anjum Khaleeq, Deputy Director (Mass Media), gave an overview of Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources’s working, aims and objectives in the introductory address on the first day of the course under reference.
The programme is comprised of classroom lectures, field demonstrations and laboratory experiments with the most modern testing equipments, where some of the contamination-testing kits and machines have also been locally developed by
Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources at a considerably low cost as compared to the corresponding imported equipment.