Water
Water Resources Management
A programme in integrated water resources management in an arid setting: estimating resources and demand, managing non-renewable groundwater, balancing conventional and non-conventional sources, managing demand and losses, and the institutional and regulatory framework in Saudi Arabia.
Overview
About the programme
Duration
5 days
Training hours
25 hours
Delivery
Training hall · Virtual · At your premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
Training outcomes
- Apply the principles of integrated water resources management.
- Prepare the water balance of a basin or region and estimate the gap between supply and demand.
- Understand the characteristics of non-renewable aquifers and the tools for managing them and monitoring abstraction.
- Evaluate supply options: surface water, groundwater, desalinated water and treated wastewater, and managed aquifer recharge.
- Design programmes for demand management and loss reduction in the agricultural, municipal and industrial sectors.
- Understand the institutional and regulatory framework of the water sector in Saudi Arabia.
Content
What the programme covers
Day 1: integrated management and the institutional framework
- Principles of integrated water resources management, and the hydrological cycle in arid environments.
- The institutional framework in Saudi Arabia: the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, the Saudi Water Authority, the Saudi Water Partnership Company, the Water Law, and the National Water Strategy.
Day 2: resources and the water balance
- Groundwater in the main sedimentary aquifers such as the Saq, Wasia, Biyadh, Minjur and Umm Er Radhuma, and surface water and dams.
- The water balance: recharge, abstraction and evaporation, monitoring data and their sources, and an exercise on the balance of a region.
Day 3: demand and supply
- Estimating current and future demand in the agricultural, municipal and industrial sectors, and estimating the gap.
- Non-conventional sources: desalinated water, treated wastewater, rainwater harvesting, managed aquifer recharge, and strategic storage.
Day 4: managing demand and groundwater
- Irrigation efficiency and methods, municipal demand management, and non-revenue water and its reduction.
- Groundwater management: well licensing and abstraction monitoring, and protecting aquifers from pollution and depletion.
Day 5: planning and decision support
- Planning and decision-support tools: geographic information systems, water allocation models such as WEAP, and scenario analysis.
- Planning for drought and climate change, and performance indicators for resource management.
- A group exercise on a water management plan for a hypothetical region, followed by the assessment.
Who it is for
Target audience
Engineers, planners and water resources specialists in government bodies, water companies and consultancies, and water officers in the agricultural and industrial sectors.
Method
Delivery method
Lectures and case studies from Saudi Arabia and the region, exercises on the water balance and demand estimation, and a group exercise in preparing a management plan. In Arabic or English.
Questions
FAQ
Does the programme include numerical groundwater modelling?
No. The programme uses modelling results for planning without building models; numerical modelling is the subject of Water Resources Assessment through Mathematical Groundwater Modelling.
Can the programme focus on a particular region?
Yes. The exercises can be built on data for a region or basin chosen by the organisation if it shares the data with the centre before the programme.
Is there a certificate?
Every participant who attends the programme and passes the assessment receives a certificate of completion from Technology Experts Training Center, licensed by the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation.
A programme tailored to your organisation
The duration and topics of the programme are adjusted to the organisation's needs, and it is delivered at its site, in a training hall arranged by the Center, or virtually.