As cities grow, the pipes and channels that bring water in and carry wastewater and stormwater away quietly decide how healthy, safe and flood-resilient a city actually is — get any one of these Urban Water Networks wrong and the consequences show up fast, from contaminated supply to flooded streets. This training course builds the practical engineering judgement needed to treat water supply, sewerage and drainage as one connected system rather than three separate design problems.

Delivered by Arab British Fellowship Training Academy under Engineering Maintenance and Operation and specializing in Construction and Civil Engineering Training Courses, the programme takes participants through demand forecasting, hydraulic design, pumping infrastructure, sewer and stormwater engineering, water-quality compliance and utility coordination, so they can plan networks that keep working as populations and rainfall patterns change.

• Read the urban water cycle as one system — linking supply, sewerage and drainage decisions instead of treating them separately.
• Forecast domestic, commercial and industrial water demand and translate it into supply and storage requirements.
• Apply hydraulic principles to size pipes, determine pressures, flows and gradients across supply and sewer networks.
• Design water distribution systems, including zoning, storage tanks, reservoirs and network control components.
• Develop sewer design strategies covering sanitary and combined systems, self-cleansing gradients and manhole layouts.
• Plan stormwater drainage networks, surface-water attenuation, culverts and flood-risk mitigation measures.
• Select and configure pumping stations, rising mains and storage/balancing facilities for water and wastewater systems.
• Assess network capacity and performance, identifying bottlenecks through hydraulic modelling.
• Apply water-quality, environmental and regulatory requirements to protect receiving water environments.
• Coordinate water infrastructure with roads, utility corridors and other services during urban development.
• Plan for the operation, inspection and preventive maintenance of water, sewerage and drainage assets over their lifecycle.
• Strengthen technical decision-making across the planning, design and asset-management stages of urban water infrastructure.

Target Audience

This course is designed for:

• Civil, water and wastewater engineers.
• Hydraulic and drainage engineers.
• Municipal and infrastructure engineers.
• Urban planners and infrastructure project managers.
• Construction, site and public-works engineers.
• Utilities managers, technical personnel and engineering consultants working on urban infrastructure.

Module 1: Why Integrated Water Networks Matter

• The urban water cycle and how supply, sewerage and drainage interact.
• Infrastructure lifecycle and resilience considerations.
• Urban development pressures and utility requirements.

Module 2: Forecasting Demand and Planning Supply

• Population growth and demand forecasting.
• Domestic, commercial and industrial demand; peak versus average consumption.
• Water source assessment, storage requirements and future capacity planning.

Module 3: Designing Water Distribution Networks

• Distribution system configurations and pipe sizing.
• Pressure and flow calculations.
• Storage tanks, reservoirs, valves and network zoning.

Module 4: Hydraulics, Pumping and Network Performance

• Hydraulic principles for water and wastewater networks; friction and head losses.
• Pump selection, pumping station configuration and rising mains.
• Hydraulic modelling, capacity assessment and identifying bottlenecks.
• Storage/balancing facilities, energy considerations and emergency arrangements.

Module 5: Sewer Systems — Collection and Design

• Principles of urban wastewater collection; sanitary and combined systems.
• Sewer design fundamentals and wastewater flow estimation.
• Pipe sizing, self-cleansing gradients, manholes and network alignment.

Module 6: Stormwater and Urban Drainage Engineering

• Surface-water drainage principles and rainfall/runoff assessment.
• Stormwater flow estimation and drainage network configuration.
• Culverts, channels, attenuation, discharge control and flood-risk considerations.

Module 7: Water Quality and Regulatory Compliance

• Water quality and wastewater management requirements.
• Environmental impacts, pollution prevention and sustainable practices.
• Regulatory compliance and protection of receiving water environments.

Module 8: Coordinating Utilities Across Urban Infrastructure

• Coordinating water and wastewater utilities with other services.
• Utility corridor planning and interfaces with roads and infrastructure.
• Construction constraints, existing-network assessment and relocation requirements.

Module 9: Operating and Maintaining Water Infrastructure

• Operating water supply, sewer and drainage networks.
• Inspection, condition assessment and managing blockage, leakage and deterioration.
• Preventive maintenance, asset management and lifecycle planning; handover documentation.