Outlines

• River Transportation System
• Response Plan for River Nile Pollution incidents
• Introduction to the Integrated Environmental Management of Water Resources
• Oil Spill Containment and Recovery
  Containment Booms: Design, selection and uses, Deployment, configuration and limitations
• Oil Spill Containment and Recovery
  Oil Skimmers: Characteristics, operation and deployment
  Standards for Establishing River Ports
• Proposed Integrated Environmental Management Plan
  for River Ports
• Oil Spill Containment and Recovery, Sorbents
• Practical Demonstration: Safety at the Spill Site - Operation of Oil Skimmers - Operation of Dispersant System
• Practical Exercise at Abou Qir Bay: Deployment of Booms
• River Nile Water Quality Assessment
• Case Study for River Nile Pollution incident
• Incident Command System
• River Nile Logistics Network
• Risk Assessment
• Role of Technology in Crisis Management: Surface water Modeling System
• Role of Technology in Crisis Management: Remote Sensing
• Role of Technology in Crisis Management: Geographic Information System

Program

Environment Protection and Crisis Management

Objectives

• Familiarization with the causes, control and prevention of River Nile pollution, and explanation of River Nile transportation system and the standards for establishing river ports. As well as focusing on the role of technology in crisis management through the use of mathematical models and geographic information system.