November, 2022
Location: Deir-ez-Zor
Beneficiaries: 19
Sterilization of drinking water is the most important factor in preventing the spread of waterborne diseases, including cholera, which has spread in Syria in general. In order to achieve the effectiveness of the sterilization process, the capabilities of technical personnel in the field of adding sterilization materials and measuring free residual chlorine must be increased. Capacity building programs come to enhance the implementation of the water safety plan and ensure the implementation of st andard operating procedures.
Project Keys
- With the aim of reducing the spread of waterborne diseases in general and cholera in particular
- Implementation of two training workshops, 19 technicians working in the sterilization of drinking water participated in the training, in addition to the heads of drinking water station
- Targeted in the training: water unit staff
- Providing the trainees with the skills of sterilizing drinking water by knowing how to determine the amount of chlorine to be added to the water and conducting a laboratory analysis to measure the free resdiual chlorine
- Practical implementation of chlorine addition in pilot stations
- Distribution of free residual chlorine meters for each water unit