It's for a great cause - helping people help themselves with their water problems. Please help if you can, and alert others.
UniWater Education is currently assembling the curriculum for a new MSc program in Water Resources for Developing Countries. It consists of 12 modules of applied hydrogeology including the fundamentals of hydrology, applied basic hydrogeology, groundwater and geotechnics, hydrochemistry, groundwater geophysics, quantified hydrogeology, well hydraulics, groundwater contamination, integrated resource management, borehole drilling and completions, borehole geophysics and field school. It is intended that this program will be offered to sub-Saharan Africa universities in a bid to train more Africans to solve African water problems thereby reducing the dependence of Africans on foreign aid and expertise.
If you have given instruction in any of these areas and wish to donate lecture notes, Power Point presentations, labs/tutorials or test/exams in any format, we would gladly give reference in our finished product to the originator of the material. We simply don't wish to reinvent the wheel when this material already exists.
Also, if you have reference texts that you find very useful, please send me the names so we can consider them for use in this program.
Our goal is to have this program generated such that it can be presented to students beginning in Sept 2013 in Zambia and Nigeria. Thus it is important that we get contributions ASAP. After these two programs are initiated, we aim to start 3 new programs per year after that.
Curricula can be uploaded quickly using the link on our website at www.UniWaterEd.org
Please circulate this request to anyone you feel may have an interest in this project.
Thanks!
Laurra OlmstedExecutive Director1111 Lake Wapta Place SECalgary, AlbertaT2J 2P4Canadaemail: uniwatered@gmail.com
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” - Albert Pike
Great stuff. Not sure this effort should be limited to developing countries..seems like a few developed countries could benefit from better informed decisions regarding water.
If this works out perhaps a similar effort could be directed at teaching the world to feed itself so U.S. Ag Industry doesn't feel compelled to do that at the expense of our own water security here in the U.S.
Posted by: P. McGinnis | Thursday, 01 November 2012 at 05:38 PM