The overall project will attempt to address coordination of what are currently disjointed training efforts in decentralized wastewater treatment. While a number of training centers/programs currently have excellent training programs, most have individual strengths and weaknesses and clearly are not comprehensive in nature. Additionally, none are consistent across the many political jurisdictions. While state and local rules will always vary across North America, the technical issues don't change simply by crossing a county, town, state or provincial boundary. This project will develop a consistent technical educational base to launch nationwide training efforts. However, the materials produced are easily modifiable electronically to address specific local rule requirements. This project makes use of the best on-site wastewater training programs, pooling the individual strengths of existing programs/centers with the potential and enthusiasm of newly developing centers to develop a coordinated, comprehensive and very detailed training curriculum. This project will improve the capabilities of trainers to incorporate adult education principles and enhanced training management/administration strategies into their programs.

The practitioner curriculum is presented as a series of short courses (or modules) with educational objectives (needs-to-know), resource needs and detailed agendas for each. Currently five module writing teams are developing the high priority topics listed in the Practitioners Curriculum Development Project.

Introduction to the Practioner Curriculum March_05

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Practitioners Curriculum Development Project


  The Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Glossary Project
The Glossary is now available!

The Final Report on the Glossary Project is nearly complete and the Glossary is posted HERE. 
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The development of these projects was supported by the
National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project
 with funding provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 through a Cooperative Agreement (EPA No. CR827881-01-0) with Washington University in St. Louis.