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Montana Water Center’s Training for Water Professionals

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This website contains training materials for water professionals. Full versions of the products are all available to download and install on your own computer. Many products are also available on a CD-ROM or DVD.

Products include:

  • Saving Water & Energy in Small Water Systems, four 45-minute presentations and associated resource files
  • Water Quality Expedition takes water system personnel and regulators on a virtual expedition through water-quality issues.
  • Contamination Explorer, intended for operators and junior-level regulatory officials, focuses on contamination issues for public drinking water systems.
  • Small Utility Board Training: Designed to help water board members and elected officials understand the basic principles of public water system regulation, operation, planning, budgeting and communication.
  • Microbial Risk Assessment Tool: a user-friendly computational tool that helps small water systems assess (by component) their vulnerability to microbial contamination.
  • POU-RO Training Tool: familiarizes engineers and other water treatment professionals with the use of centrally managed, point-of-use reverse osmosis (POU-RO) systems in order to comply with the arsenic drinking water regulations.
  • Source Water Protection Training Interactive Guides have been produced for Montana, Pennsylvania, and three EPA Region 5 states - Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. These guides are useful for operator training and for producing protection plans using a template-based approach.
  • Sanitary Survey Fundamentals Prep Course: Targeted toward new field staff responsible for inspection and evaluation of small water systems for sanitary risks and compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act.
  • Ground Water Manual for Small Public Systems

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Format: 
Report
Topic: 
Operations (technical)
Management
Regulations
Energy use
Source water
Source: 
Other nonprofit/organization
Audience: 
Operator
Board/council member
Plant manager
Mayor/town manager/elected official (local)