WEC

The Water and Environment Centre (WEC) was founded in 1999 and is affiliated to Sana’a University, Yemen. As a centre for water management and environmental science, it provides education and training, consultancy services

Key Activities

 1. IWRM Diploma/MSc. programme
The concept of IWRM has come to the forefront and is embraced by the government of Yemen. This approach considers the water crisis as a multidimensional socio-economic challenge and advocates multidisciplinary solutions in water management in addition to purely technical approaches.

The programme is financed by the Dutch government (Nuffic/NPT programme 2004-2008) and given by a group of Yemeni specialists supported by lecturers from Wageningen University/Netherlands, the Technical University Delft/Netherlands and Cairo University/Egypt and the support of the private companies MetaMeta (Wageningen/Netherlands) and Arcadis/Euroconsult (Arnhem/Netherlands). It has a total length of two years divided into four semesters and directed to students in the water sector in Yemen and the Arab region.

2. Training (short courses):

WEC offers tailor-made training courses targeting directly the need of specific organizations/groups of individuals actively involved in the water and environment sectors. The target groups are engineers, technicians, accountants and administrative staff in the water sector.

The short courses comprise a range of training in:
 

Awareness Program in Water and Wastewater

Water and Waste Water Project Management

Control of Unaccounted Water

Groundwater Fundamentals

Wastewater networks, Pumping Stations, and Pumps.

Waste Water Treatment and Sludge

Management, Operation & Maintenance of Rural Water Projects

Water and Environment

House Sanitation Connections

Sanitation in Urban & Rural Areas

Technical Reports Writing

EIA for Water And Sanitation Projects

Socio-Economic Studies for Projects

Rainfall Water Harvesting

Industrial Pollution

Skill Development and Training for Employments

Research
4. Professional services and studies for capacity building and knowledge acquisition/transfer.
5. Laboratory analysis of high quality at low cost for various applications in the fields of water and environment.

MSc Course in Integrated Water Resource Management
6. From September 2005 onwards WEC will launch a new MSc programme in Integrated Water Resource Management.