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    <description>The latest taggings for water</description>
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      <title>Risk Management and Reliability Engineering in the Utility Sector- Short course</title>
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        <![CDATA[Emma Longstaff - This course aims to provide an understanding of risk governance in the utility sector, including organisational strategy, risk governance structures, risk assessments and reliability analysis tools and techniques. Course description -drivers for risk management in the utility sector – why]]>
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      <title>Water Demand Management - Short course</title>
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        <![CDATA[Emma Longstaff - The aim of this course is to acquire an understanding of the opportunities for water conservation and to develop practical skills to support the qualitative and quantitative assessment of conservation options. Course description -water demand forecasting -demand management options -technology]]>
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      <title>Introduction to Wastewater Treatment Technologies- Short course</title>
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        <![CDATA[Emma Longstaff - This course aims to promote an understanding of technologies used for the removal of salt from water and wastewater. Course description -sewage and required treated effluent quality -preliminary effluent treatment (screening) -primary effluent treatment (sedimentation) -suspended growth (activated sludge) processes]]>
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      <title>Introduction to Potable Water Treatment Processes- Short course</title>
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        <![CDATA[Emma Longstaff - This course aims to provide an understanding of technologies used for the treatment of water for potable water supply. Course description -raw and required potable water quality -coagulation & flocculation processes -filtration and adsorption processes -chemical and physical disinfection -removal]]>
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      <title>Digestion Optimisation for Organics - Short course</title>
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        <![CDATA[Emma Longstaff - This is a two day technical course and site visit examining waste anaerobic digestion, municipal sewage sludge digestion and codigestion with a particular focus on optimising digestion and biogas production through the use of digestion pre-treatments. The course will examine]]>
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      <title>Desalination Technologies- Short course</title>
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        <![CDATA[Emma Longstaff - The aim of this course is to acquire knowledge of the underlying principles of desalination practices with respect to the design and operation of the technologies applied. Course description -raw water quality -membrane processes (reverse osmosis, electrodialysis) design and operation]]>
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      <title>Water Chemistry- Short course</title>
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        <![CDATA[Emma Longstaff - This course aims to promote an understanding of the fundamental chemistry which governs water treatment processes. Course description -water chemistry fundamentals -chemical kinetics & equilibria On successful completion of this course the delegate will have: -An understanding of the relevant]]>
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      <title>Regulation in the Water Sector- Short course</title>
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        <![CDATA[Emma Longstaff - This course aims to provide an understanding of the principles, organisations and processes involved in regulating water and wastewater service provision within the United Kingdom. Course description -environmental regulation -regulating risks -water economics -abstraction regulation – Environment Agency -drinking water]]>
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      <title>Process Engineering and System Hydraulics- Short course</title>
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        <![CDATA[Emma Longstaff - The aim of this courses is to promote an understanding of the fundamental hydraulic processes which underpin water treatment systems. Course description -process engineering fundamentals -fluid mixing and flow, mass balance, mass transfer and elementary chemical reactor theory -flowsheeting and]]>
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      <title>Nutrient Removeal- Short course</title>
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        <![CDATA[Emma Longstaff - This course aims to gain an understanding of the design principles, practice and operational experience of biological nutrient removal processes. Course description -appreciation of the microbiological processes for nitrogen and phosphorus removal -understanding of design and operation of biological nutrient]]>
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