In 2017, Water Quality Monitoring and Management (WQM) training was conducted jointly with the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MoET) of Mongolia for 21 River Basin Administration (RBA) offices and Local Environmental Laboratory (LEL) specialists. It aimed to build sustainable national capacity for monitoring and managing the water quality (drinking water, surface- and groundwater).
Total 35 participants have been attended the training and gained knowledge in the following subjects:
- Principles of quality monitoring
- Field water sampling.
- Chemical analysis of water samples.
- National water quality monitoring programme
- Application of water quality index.
- Water quality management.
- Water quality data interpretation
- Water quality management.
- Cooperation between LELs and RBAs
Facilitators and trainers for the training workshop were from MoET, the National Agency for Meteorology and Environment Monitoring, the Central Laboratory for Environment and Metrology and Mongolia Water Forum -Us Khelts NGO.