Training Resources

Welcome to the H2infO Training Page! The resources found within this page have been collected from across the U.S. Water Partnership with the goal of aiding in the education and preparation of H2infO users all over the world working to address unique water challenges.

Training Resources

CH2M Hill WaterMatch

Published: 
May 30, 2013
CH2M HILL
This webinar describes WaterMatch, a social network connecting water users with water genertors to promote the beneficial reuse of municipal effluent for industrial, agriculturual, and other municipal uses.Read more

Drought Response and Recovery Guide for Water Utilities

Published: 
March 1, 2016
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
This interactive, user-friendly guide provides worksheets, best practices, videos and key resources for responding to drought emergencies and building long-term resilience. The guide relays lessons learned from seven small- to medium-sized utilities nationwide that have responded to extreme drought...Read more
Regional focus: 
Global

Crafting Technical Docume nts and Making Effective Presentations

National Groundwater Association
?Learn how to compile technical information from a variety of sources into a coherent document and then communicate the data to a variety of expert and nonexpert audiences during this one-day course.Read more

Fundamentals of Groundwater Geochemistry

National Groundwater Association
This course is designed to provide you with a thorough understanding of the principles of geochemistry, as understanding the geochemical aspects is an important step in completing a successful site assessment or remediation project. While many people have a solid understanding of hydrological...Read more

Water to Air Models: Urban and Agricultural Frameworks for Quantifying Energy and Air Quality

Published: 
October 1, 2004
Pacific Institute
To give water managers a better understanding of the relationship between water management decisions, energy consumption, and air quality the Pacific Institute has created two Excel Spreadsheets that demonstrate Water to Air Models. One model is for urban water districts and the other for...Read more

Planning How to Use Sources of Surface Water

U.S. Agency for International Development
This technical note describes the planning need to use surface water sources in terms of eight planning steps: -recognize problem -organize community support and set objectives -collect data -formulate alternatives -choose best method -establish the system -operate and maintain system -evaluate...Read more

A Practical Approach to Water Conservation for Commercial Industrial Facilities

Published: 
May 1, 2007
Alliance for Water Efficiency
Industry and commerce use vast amounts of water, and in many parts of the world water is becoming a scarce commodity. This book is a "best practice" manual for water conservation for industrial and commercial users world-wide.It offers a practical account of the measures which can be...Read more

Oro Valley Landscape Water Plan Code

The National Institutes for Water Resources
This landscape water plan ensures irrigation efficiency and water conservation goals are being accomplished and maximum amount of water applied on an annual basis shall be established for any irrigated landscape.Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Study of Real-Time Adaptive Closed-Loop Control Algorithm for Reservoir Operation

U.S. Agency for International Development
Recent studies on the optimal control of the High Aswan Dam in Egypt have illustrated the usefulness of steady-state stochastic dynamic programming techniques for deriving optimal release policies.Read more
Regional focus: 
Egypt, Arab Rep.Middle East and North Africa

Manual on Water Desalination: Economics, Appendices

Published: 
April 1, 1967
U.S. Agency for International Development
THIS APPENDIX TO VOLUMES I AND II OF THE MANUAL LISTS EXISTING DESALINATION PLANTS, TECHNICAL DATA ON PROPERTIES OF SEAWATER AND BRACKISH WATER, AND OUTLINES SAMPLE SURVEY QUESTIONNARIES FOR BOTH TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY STUDIES. IT INCLUDES ESTIMATING AIDS AND NOMOGRAPHS FOR DETERMINING...Read more