Shehu Yahaya, Kaduna
National Water Resources Institute, NWRI, Kaduna has successfully trained 18 Liberian Geologists, Mining Engineers, Plumbers and Civil Engineers in sewage treatment, water treatment, exploration of ground water, conveying water from treatment plants to end users.
The Executive Director of NWRI, Professor Emmanuel Adanu who disclosed this at the closing ceremony of the one-month course held in Kaduna, said the Institute offered standard training for the participants, most importantly when they realized that the participants were not technically and academically enlightened to the level the Institute was providing.He said that the Liberian standard of education is very high, but the participants have not been in contact with courses of this nature due to the years of war the country went through, but are now picking up.Prof Adanu also informed that the NWRI is hosting the UNESCO Category II Centre – Regional Centre for Integrated River Basin Management and is supposed to cater for the whole of West African Sub-region with 15 countries.
“What we do is to make sure the West African sub-region is enlightened on the importance of such institution, and also what it could do for management of water resources.
“We’ve had people from Senegal, Niger, The Gambia come do some courses here, but we’re taking it further this time to make sure those who are not aware of this, we spread it to them.
“We also organize conferences and invite people all over the world come to discuss issues concerning water resources management,’ he said.
In an interview with
newsmen shortly after the closing ceremony, the Head of delegation of the Liberian Team, Jefferson Thokpay Chea, said the training has been very rewarding for them.
According to him, members of the team are from four different technical institutions in Liberia which include: Liberia Hydrological Services, Liberia Sewage Water Corporation, Ministry of Youth and Sports, and Ministry of Transport,who are into sewage treatment, water treatment, exploration of ground water, conveying water from treatment plants to end users.
“So you can see how technical and import our work is in terms of provision of services to people especially in urban areas.”
Chea said the course was very technical and the facilitators gave them very good materials, pointing out that there was something unique about the NIWRI particularly in the aspect of ground water exploration.He informed that they were taught ground water exploration, water quality, statistical data modeling for predicting floods, and being able to carve where people should not build structures.
He said that they were also taught the kind of technical investigations to be carried out before pulling down certain structures, saying it was very rewarding and a kind of interactive training course
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