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Water Treatment Courses
Qualifications
National Certificate in Water Treatment (Site Operator)
This National Certificate is designed for people seeking to increase their knowledge and skills in water treatment. It is especially suitable if you are supervising water treatment plants that serve populations of 500 to 5,000, or working under supervision on larger water treatment systems.
It covers specialist water treatment skills that include:
The operation of water treatment and reticulation systems
Water sources and pre-treatment
Fundamental treatment processes
Coagulation, separation and filtration
Alkalinity and pH control
Taste and odour control theory
Sampling theory and practice
Waste management of water treatment by-products
Drinking water legislation and standards
Advantages
By choosing a Water Industry Training course in water treatment, you can:
Learn while you earn.
Obtain a nationally recognised NZQA qualification.
Gain formal recognition for skills you may have already acquired on the job.
Secure future career and business opportunities.
Progress onto the higher level National Diploma in Water Treatment (Site Technician) course. (This is the highest industry qualification available in the water industry).
Course Fee is $6200 +GST per person.
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National Diploma in Drinking Water - Water Treatment (Site Technician)
This is the highest level qualification for people working in, or progressing towards, a supervisory or management role in water treatment - either for local Government or industrial water suupply systems. It is ideal for people who are experienced in supervising or managing water treatment systems.
The Diploma
With changing drinking water standards, new legislation and a competitive business environment, qualified water treatment Managers and Supervisors are in high demand. If you are currently in, or progressing towards, a supervisory or management role in water treatment, this qualification is for you.
The Diploma has two strands:
Treatment strand: for ‘hands on’ water treatment plant Supervisors and Managers who wish to increase their knowledge and learn best practice procedures in water treatment (covered in this brochure).
Assessment strand: for those who assess drinking water supplies (please contact Water Industry Training for more information). Click here to download a pdf brochure available from Water IT
Advantages
By choosing a Water Industry Training course in water treatment, you can:
Learn while you earn.
Obtain a nationally recognised NZQA qualification.
Gain formal recognition for skills you may have already acquired on the job.
Secure future career and business opportunities.
Gain the highest nationally recognised industry qualification available for hands-on water treatment Site Managers and Supervisors.
Course Fee is $6400 +GST per person.
For more information on this course click here for Block One and click here for Block Two
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National Diploma in Drinking Water - Drinking Water Assessment
This high-level course is designed for public health employees, enabling them to implement Ministry of Health drinking water policies, legislation and standards. It is essential for anyone working as a drinking water assessor, and also ideal for consulting and council engineers wanting more detailed and specific water treatment knowledge than is available in most engineering courses.
The assessment strand of the Diploma is for those who assess drinking water supplies. Please contact Water Industry Training for more information.
Water Industry Training
PO Box 10-383, The Terrace, Wellington
Freephone: 0800 WaterIT (0800 928 374)
Tel: (04) 801 9443
Fax: (04) 801 9626
Email: enquiries@waterit.ac.nz
www.waterit.ac.nz
Course Fee is $8500 +GST per person.
For more information on this course click here for Block One, click here for Block Two and click here for Block Three.
Professional Development
Understanding New Zealand's drinking water legislation
This is a one day course that will enable participants to understand recent changes to New Zealand’s drinking-water framework, legislation and key regulatory agencies.
It will provide clarity to water supplier’s responsibilities, timeframes and duties in key areas such as Public Health Risk Management Plans, Drinking Water Standards Water Supply Gradings and the Health (Drinking Water) Amendment Act.
It will identify opportunities for funding improvements to infrastructure, and highlight contentious issues including the meaning and application of ‘all practicable steps’ and ‘affordability’ in the Act.
Content
DWAA 2007 Legislation Overview:
The roles and duties of water suppliers and regulators and how it links to the drinking water National Environmental Standard and Building Act.
PHRMPs:
What are they, why we have them, how can they add value, what is a DWA looking for and the process for approval and implementation?
Grading:
What it is, what it is not. The Drinking Water Assessor’s process and how to make grading simple and problem free.
Less known or clear parts of the Act:
The things they never told you and the implications for water suppliers.
Who should attend?
This course is aimed at those working in the water industry.
We recommend this course to managers and policy makers in Government Departments, Local Government water supply and reticulation utility managers, engineers, treatment plant managers and operators, environmental health officers, compliance officers, medical officers of health, health protection officers and drinking water assessors.
This course is also highly recommended for those people working with small supplies.
Price
The price for this one-day course is $500 + GST.
Delivery
The course will be delivered in a one-day workshop with an interactive exercise focus to underpin learning outcomes.
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Principles and Trends of Water Treatment
The Principles and Trends of Water Treatment course has been developed for those working in the water treatment field and covers the fundamentals of water treatment sciences and processes.
This course has been delivered for more than 10 years and has been a useful development process for engineers, operators and those new to water treatment processes.
This three day course is being held in Hamilton.
Content
1. Water use and characteristics
2. Health Act and DWSNZ
3. Public Health Risk Management plans and sanitary surveys
4. Processes:
pre treatment; coagulation and flocculation; separation; filtration; disinfection; waste management; PH correction; plumbosolvency; impact of reticulation systems and taste & odour and flouridation.
5. Small water systems and bottled water (Food Act).
Who should attend?
Compliance/consent officers, engineers, operators, contract managers and administrators, environmental and health protection officers, customer service people, asset managers, Asset data personnel, wet industry infrastructure managers, defence personnel and suppliers who require an excellent introduction to the principles of Water Treatment.
Delivery
This NZWETA course is delivered by Opus Environmental Training Centre (ETC) which has a long tradition of delivering water treatment qualifications and courses in New Zealand.
Course Fee is $1400.00 + GST
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Water and Environmental Sampling
Correct sampling practices are essential to many businesses. NZWETA has developed a Sampling course to teach the principles and practices behind taking and transporting representative samples for testing.
This is not to question laboratory activities but to highlight the inadequacies with sampling and sample collection in the water quality and environmental industry before the samples actually get to the laboratory.
The Sampling course introduces water quality, environmental, and wastewater compliance monitoring with an option to achieve NZQA unit standards. The course includes practical assessment and verification of competency.
Content
Course content covers:
Introduction to the importance of sampling
Requirements of the Drinking Water Standards for NewZealand
Introduction to characteristics of environmental and wastewaters
Practical, on-site testing will be demonstrated and discussed
Sampling practices to avoid contamination
Sample labeling, handling, storage and transportation
Record Keeping
Typical sampling programs
Course Fee is $425 +GST per person.
Who should attend?
The course is aimed at laboratory technicians, council and private personnel involved in sampling, permitting, monitoring and compliance activities, water and wastewater operations, health protection officials and water transportation.
Course delivery
We offer a unique delivery for this course. The morning is dedicated to the theory of various sampling techniques and requirements. The afternoon includes a practical component for assessment and accreditation of unit standard 17890: Undertake sampling and testing procedures for water treatment and 24927: Describe, and undertake sampling and testing procedures for wastewater. Students are also expected to complete some work by distance.
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