The Caribbean Public Well being Company (CARPHA) facilitated a coaching workshop entitled “Superior Strategies in Capability Constructing for Wastewater Reuse: Monitoring and Evaluation” for wastewater administration, water useful resource administration and environmental well being professionals from the eight collaborating international locations in Kingston, Jamaica from July 22 to 26.
The workshop was hosted in collaboration with United Nations Setting Programme Caribbean Setting Programme (UNEP-CEP), and the Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) Fee and funded by the World Setting Facility funded Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystem Administration in Small Island Growing States (GEF-IWEco) Undertaking.
The five-day coaching workshop aimed to equip contributors with the information and expertise required to conduct sampling, successfully carry out microbial and chemical wastewater checks, interpret take a look at outcomes and effectively handle associated laboratory actions. It additionally uncovered contributors to theoretical ideas and sensible expertise in good laboratory/ business greatest practices for wastewater high quality testing, microbiological and chemical wastewater take a look at strategies, outcomes evaluation and the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 High quality Administration System.
“CARPHA is happy to companion with the OECS Fee and UNEP-CEP to ship IWEco advantages to collaborating states and expresses because of the World Setting Facility for funding this crucial regional mission that in its goal considers the local weather change disaster confronted by SIDS,” This exercise equips regional professionals with the information and expertise required to adequately monitor wastewater and finally strengthen regional public well being programs by way of the evaluation and interpretation of wastewater information to tell wastewater reuse requirements, motion plans and coverage growth” acknowledged Dr. Lisa Indar, Advert Interim Govt Director at CARPHA.
Shane Kirton, Officer-in-Cost, Environmental Well being and Sustainable Growth (EHSD) CARPHA, and CARPHA IWEco Undertaking Supervisor, highlighted the timeliness of this coaching workshop as an exercise for implementation within the Roadmap of Motion from the IWRM Framework, in constructing nationwide capability for wastewater managers, water useful resource managers and environmental well being skilled. “The coaching workshop aligns with CARPHA strategic plan and EHSD’s mandate to strengthen technical and useful resource capability in environmental testing and monitoring throughout CARPHA Member States.”
The goals of the workshop had been to develop technical proficiency in sampling strategies for wastewater evaluation; present hands-on expertise in laboratory evaluation to make sure correct and dependable information assortment; educate contributors on greatest practices for wastewater sampling, evaluation, storage and transportation to take care of pattern integrity and; improve analytical expertise by way of the interpretation of analytical information utilizing varied strategies and functions in wastewater high quality evaluation.
The GEF-IWEco Undertaking is a multi-focal regional mission, comprising ten (10) Collaborating States: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. The mission is funded by the World Setting Facility (GEF) and co-implemented by United Nations Setting Programme Caribbean Setting Programme (UNEP-CEP), and the Caribbean Public Well being Company (CARPHA) in collaboration with the Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) Fee.
