AG Consult Water Technology Training Center, Ethiopia’s only privately-owned water technology training center inaugurated training facilities. The company announced the launching of its full-scale training facilities at an even held in Hilton Hotel, Addis Ababa in the presence of government officials and experts in the sector.

Kebede Gerba, State Minster of Water and Energy, who attended the event, told Capital that the training centre has a role to feed trained experts to the sector, in parallel with the government scheme.

Courses offered at the training center include groundwater resource development and management, water well drilling technology, drilling machine maintenance, pump and generator selection, GIS training, water CAD and auto CAD and groundwater hydraulics, well design and hydro-chemistry.

AG Consult Water Technology Training Center was established in 2010. The center's owner Abebe Gebrehiwot, started working in water consultancy in 2007. In 2003, its sister company, TAM Geo-Engineering was set up to carry out water-well drilling and water works construction.

Source: Capital