Among the total 130 participants, most trainees came from water related departments of Shaanxi Province, water supply stations and relevant management staff at village level. The training content covered the operation and management of rural safe drinking water supply facilities, water pipelines and rural safe drinking water management system. By the means of interactive lecturing, the trainers introduced trainees some key points of designing and implementing water supply projects and recommended textbooks regarding rural water supply.
The project of Evaluation of Post-quake Rural Water Supply Facilities and the Capacity Building, for the related issues of the reconstruction after Wenchuan Earthquake on May 12, 2008, is initiated and mainly coordinated by GWP China and meanwhile financially supported by the UK DFID and carried out in some key disaster zones in Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces. The objective of this project is to provide pilot counties with technical supports and trainings about water supply facilities operation, maintenance and management based upon the on-site survey on the damages and current situation of the water supply facilities in rural areas.