These categories are a guide only; if you can't find a specific topic or course, ask us about WRc's wide range of cross-sector knowledge and capability - we'll be happy to help find your training solution.
Our courses cover the basics to the cutting edge via in-person, virtual and hybrid delivery. Purposeful and focused solutions enhance existing employees' expertise and develop new recruits’ knowledge of the water, environment and sustainability sectors.
From our vast knowledge-store, we have hand-picked problem-focused, expert-led modules to support and guide your training, so that you can fill your knowledge gaps and rise to meet today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.
We can also create or customise a course according to your teams' skill level and add any practical cases or content specific to your team or business. If you’re unable to find the exact training solution you need for you and your team, please get in touch.
These categories are a guide only; if you can't find a specific topic or course, ask us about WRc's wide range of cross-sector knowledge and capability - we'll be happy to help find your training solution.
Please enquire if you are a team looking for a course using a different or combined delivery method, or at your chosen in-person venue.
These are an indication; please read full descriptions as longer courses may span knowledge levels. Get in touch if you're looking for a specific course at a different level.
'Fundamental' training offers an introduction or overview, such as for new starters or management.
'Intermediate' learners may be junior staff requiring a more detailed understanding to meet role/ team requirements.
'Advanced' courses provide in-depth technical knowledge transfer.
Delivered by a Water Safety Planning specialist, this training course provides water industry graduates and early career-starters with the fundamental knowledge to ensure the quality of drinking water for customer supply; from sources and infrastructure impacts through to regulations and mitigation strategies.
Duration: 3 days
Delivery: In-person or Online (live)
Find out moreDelegates will gain essential knowledge of drinking water and wastewater treatment processes and networks, environmental impacts, and regulations governing the sector, equipping individuals with the confidence to successfully begin their role within the industry.
Duration: 1 day
Delivery: Online (self-paced)
Find out moreThis course equips delegates with an advanced knowledge of leakage detection in water networks. It covers the consequences and challenges of leakage; adapting and integrating leak detection methods; and system optimisation, pressure management, and data-driven tools for effective water loss management.
Duration: 3 days
Delivery: In-person
Find out moreThis training course equips water supply and regulation professionals with a critical understanding of: leakage and pressure management; leakage estimation and detection; and the key elements of asset quality; for effective pipeline repair and rehabilitation.
Duration: 4 days
Delivery: In-person or Online (self-paced)
Find out moreThis course provides hands-on experience of the capability and features of WRc’s TR61 software, which collates cost and carbon estimating models for the construction, renovation and operation of water treatment and infrastructure assets, delivered by its developer and trainer, engineer David Sivil.
Duration: 1 day
Delivery: In-person
Find out moreDeveloped by a water recycling and reuse specialist, this course provides water industry starters and operational staff with the knowledge to ensure the safe end-use of reclaimed water: its applications, processes, and regulations, as well as customer and environmental risks and mitigations.
Duration: 3 days
Delivery: In-person or Online (live)
Find out moreThis short course provides learners with an introduction to Regulation 31(4), which substances and products must meet before being introduced into the water supply. The training overviews the regulation's background, requirements, DWI application, and consequences of non-compliance.
Duration: 0.5 day
Delivery: In-person / Online (live or self-paced*)
Find out moreThis course provides clean water network modellers, engineers, and technicians with an introduction to network hydraulics. Covering assets such as pipes, valves, pumps and reservoirs, learners will be equipped to use GIS software in the construction and application of hydraulic models.
Duration: 1.5 days
Delivery: In-person or Online (live)
Find out moreDelivered by flow and metering specialist, Andy Godley, this course provides meter (and meter data) users with increased understanding of water meter technology, regulations, applications, and how to improve the collection of water flow data from source to tap.
Duration: 1 or 1.5 days
Delivery: In-person
Find out moreThis course provides new starters to the leakage industry - such as operatives, managers and consultants - with the fundamental knowledge of leakage causes and control principles, as well as leak detection equipment and techniques, to ensure a basic understanding of detecting water loss.
Duration: 1 day
Delivery: In-person
Find out moreThis course offers students, graduates and career-starters with introductory training on water microbiology, with the aim to develop an understanding of waterborne disease and pathogens, indicator organisms and principles of hygiene in water supply.
Duration: 1 day
Delivery: Online (self-paced + 1hr mentoring)
Find out moreSpecifically aimed at those seeking ISO 17025:2017 accreditation, this training course provides staff with the relevant working knowledge to be able to implement appropriate quality systems within clean or wastewater testing laboratory environments.
Duration: 3 days
Delivery: In person
Find out moreThis course offers water industry professionals comprehensive training on water microbiology, with an understanding of regulatory parameters, waterborne disease, and frontiers such as faecal pollution diagnostics.
Duration: 3 half-days
Delivery: Online (live)
Find out moreThis software tool is a training resource for water companies to simulate various possible failures in water treatment operation, or membrane process operation, for operators to diagnose and resolve - ensuring staff can demonstrate competency in responding to non-routine failures and troubleshooting problems.
Duration: N/A
Delivery: Software training tool
Find out moreAimed at engineering graduates and early career starters, this course explores best practices, asset deterioration, and the application of risk-based methods in the maintenance planning and execution of water network infrastructure such as pipes, valves, pumps and meters.
Duration: 2 days
Delivery: In-person or Online (live)
Find out moreThis training uses water industry frameworks and case studies to illustrate how to take a risk-based approach to asset management by extracting best value from planned maintenance, and making wise investment decisions by balancing probability and consequences of failure with costs of remediation.
Duration: 3 days
Delivery: In-person or Online (live)
Find out moreThrough this training, on-site workers will learn the essential practical skills to competently follow the relevant specification and procedures to safely and effectively install replacement domestic potable water service pipes (e.g., electrofusion, meters), to reduce leakage and supply failures.
Duration: 1-2 days
Delivery: In-person (incl. on-site)
Find out moreDeveloped by WRc's regulatory, toxicology and engineering specialists, this training provides those designing, purchasing and installing products for use in potable water supply systems with a technical understanding to inform the successful application, approval and compliance with Regulation 31(4).
Duration: 2 days
Delivery: In-person / Online (live)
Find out moreThis course offers water industry professionals with the sufficient background knowledge of toxicology in order to understand how chemical risk assessments are used to make decisions and manage risks following unintended chemical occurrences in drinking water.
Duration: 3 half-days
Delivery: Online (live)
Find out moreThis course allows new starters to the leakage industry to understand how the N1 exponent relates to leakage; to use best practice techniques to plan for and carry out an N1 field test; and to analyse N1 test data to inform water loss management strategies within supply networks.
Duration: 2 days
Delivery: Online (self-paced)
Find out moreThis course provides learners with an understanding of drinking water safety regulations and the risks of non-compliance, using practical examples to equip them with the skills to adopt management best practices that mitigate risks and promote sustainability.
Duration: 2-3 days
Delivery: In-person / Online (live or self-paced)
Find out moreDelivered by flow and metering specialist Andy Godley, this course provides users (and those directing use) of clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeters with a practical demonstration and detailed exploration of their operation, applications, performance and limitations for effective water flow measurement.
Duration: 1 day
Delivery: In-person
Find out moreThis training equips water network technicians, engineers and supervisors with the skills to operate valves efficiently and carry out step tests to mitigate leakage effectively, and carry out mains shutdowns and other activities.
Duration: 1 day
Delivery: In-person and Online (self-paced)
Find out moreThis course enables leak detection analysts to increase their understanding of best-practice principles and implement real-world solutions for: effective design and targeting of DMAs and TMAs; leakage control and strategy; and analysis of spatial data using GIS technology.
Duration: 4 days
Delivery: In-person or Online (live)
Find out moreThis training course introduces new starters to the leakage industry, with a focus on maintenance best practices for assets such as PRVs and meters, equipping them with the understanding of effective leak management in the supply network.
Duration: 5 days
Delivery: In-person
Find out moreThis course provides engineering graduates and early-career technicians & operators with a detailed insight into managing flows and pressures in the water supply network, including different types of valves, their functions and how network valving can affect water quality.
Duration: 2 days
Delivery: In-person or Online (live)
Find out moreThis course provides clean water network practitioners with in-depth knowledge and skills to ensure the highest quality of service supplied to the customer. Topics include: mains flushing, field tests, managing incidents, and using GIS and hydraulic models to solve problems.
Duration: 3 days
Delivery: In-person or Online (live)
Find out moreThis course provides engineering graduates and early-career starters with a detailed insight into water pumping stations, covering topics ranging from design considerations to pump performance characteristics and measurements.
Duration: 2 days
Delivery: In person
Find out moreThis training course equips water supply operators and consultants with the required knowledge level to develop a Water Safety Plan (WSP), in line with WHO guidance and BS EN 15975-2, from hazard identification through to strengthening SOPs, enabling them to provide the safe potable drinking water.
Duration: 3 days
Delivery: In-person or Online (live)
Find out moreThis training programme enables water treatment process professionals to develop the required skills and knowledge to effectively address and resolve various challenges and ensure processed water is safe to humans and the environment, including Chlorination, RO Desalination and UV Disinfection.
Duration: 3 days
Delivery: Online (live)
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