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
Maintaining Well Logs
U.S. Agency for International Development
This technical note describes how to maintain a well log. Maintaining a log involves recording information on the physical characteristics of the well, the soil formations encountered during construction and the yield of the well.Read more
Finishing Wells
U.S. Agency for International Development
This technical note describes how to finish a well. Finishing a well is important to protect the water from contamination. This note outlines the necessary materials, construction schedule and work plans for finishing drilled and hand dug wells.Read more
Overview of Rural Water Supply
U.S. Agency for International Development
This technical note serves as the table of contents for the list of technical notes on USAID "Water for the World" rural water supply series. This note provides the suggested order for reading the other technical notes. It also provides additional sources for rural water supply...Read more
Selecting a Source of Surface Water
U.S. Agency for International Development
This technical note suggests guidelines for choosing the most appropriate surface water source for a community.Read more
Evaluating Operation and Maintenance Training
U.S. Agency for International Development
Evaluation is a way for the action agency and the village to review the value of the water and sanitation system to the community.Read more
Methods of Developing Sources of Surface Water
U.S. Agency for International Development
This technical note discusses four classes of surface water source: -streams and seeps -ponds and lakes -streams and rivers -rainfall catchments.Read more
Implementing Operation and Maintenance Training
U.S. Agency for International Development
Training is very important to successful water and sanitation system operation. Training is very important to successful water and sanitation system operation.Read more
Planning Operation and Maintenance Training
U.S. Agency for International Development
This technical note is about planning operations and maintenance training programs for rural village water and sanitation systems requires choosing a training method and arranging a training program schedule.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
Who Will Go for the Ball? A WASH Education Comic Book
Relief International, U.S. Agency for International Development
This behavior change communications tool was designed by teenagers in Ghana to get their peers to think about WASH in their daily lives.Read more
Regional focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa