Sub. International Short Term Course on Management of Urban Water
Supply Schemes, 10th - 21st JANUARY, 2005, being organised jointly
by IIT Roorkee and NIH, INDIA.

Dear Friends,

Urban water supply schemes are essential elements of infrastructure
and play an important role in the social well-being of any country.
Most existing water supply schemes in various cities were designed
and installed decades earlier and are now highly inadequate to cater
for the increased population. The problem gets further aggravated
because of rapid urbanization and reduction in water carrying
capacity of such schemes due to aging and poor maintenance. There
are frequent complaints of not receiving water for sufficient time
at adequate pressure and of getting contaminated water. Thus, there
is need of effective planning, operation, maintenance, and capacity
augmentation of existing water supply schemes.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee (India) is engaged
in the dissemination of knowledge in the technological advances in
various areas of engineering, and is well recognized at national and
international level. IIT Roorkee has a unique and distinct advantage
of having various departments/ centres of excellence like Civil
Engineering, Water Resources Development Training Centre (WRDTC) and
Dept. of Hydrology.

National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) Roorkee is the premier
research institute of India in the field of hydrology. The Institute
is well equipped to carry out computer, laboratory & field oriented
studies and has a team of well qualified & trained scientists with
excellent academic background.

I have a great pleasure in informing you about the International
Short-term Course on "Management of Urban Water Supply Schemes" to
be organized during 10th to 21st January, 2005 by WRDTC jointly with
NIH at the Centre of Continuing Education, IIT Roorkee. This short-
term course will focus on computer based design and analysis of
urban water supply schemes. It will focus on various issues like
sustainable sources of water supply, water quality, social and
economical aspects, etc. Latest techniques of mechanical, hydraulic
and water quality reliability assessment will be taught. The target
audience is the field engineers, planners, managers, and teachers of
technical institutions.

The Last date for nominations in this course is 30th Nov., 2004.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,


(Dr. M L Kansal)
Associate Professor,
Water Resources Development Training Centre,
Indian Institute of Technology,
ROORKEE 247 667.
Ph. +91-1332-285749 (o)
e-mail : mlkgkfwt@...
kansalml@...
web site : http://www.iitr.ac.in