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Table 1 Curricula for Operator and Administrator training courses

From: Impact on diarrhoeal illness of a community educational intervention to improve drinking water quality in rural communities in Puerto Rico

Common courses

Hours

Administrator courses

Hours

Operator courses

Hours

Basic commercial Spanish

60

Keyboard and word processing

90

Computer use

90

Basic commercial English

60

Human relations

60

Mathematics for water operators

90

Basic commercial mathematics

60

Information processes in water systems management

120

Biology

90

Environmental health

90

Water systems management

90

Physics

60

Introduction to potable water regulation

90

Document administration

60

Chemistry

60

  

Accounting principles

90

Potable water treatment

180

  

Internship

215

Operation of water treatment plants

150

    

Practical work

405