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These are the units CABWI Awarding Body registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Water Network Distribution – Operation of District Metered Areas Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to record the low pressure register
- Understand how to manage the low pressure register
- Record the low pressure register
- Manage the low pressure register
- Understand pressure management techniques
- Undertake pressure management techniques
- Understand how to make changes to the water networks
- Undertake changes to the water networks
- Understand techniques used in leakage location
- Understand techniques used in network performance analysis
- Undertake leakage location
- Undertake network performance analysis
- Understand the management of customer side leakage
- Undertake the management of customer side leakage
- Understand effective valve management
- Undertake effective valve management
- Understand the location of underground apparatus
- Understand the avoidance of underground apparatus
- Undertake the location of underground apparatus
- Undertake the avoidance of underground apparatus
Water Network Distribution – Operation of Service Reservoirs, Pumps and Trunk Mains Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of remote monitoring and control systems for strategic water networks.
- Understand the regulatory requirements and processes for reservoir cleaning and inspection.
- Undertake the regulatory requirements and processes for reservoir cleaning and inspection in accordance with guidelines.
- Understand the maintenance requirements for non-infrastructure assets associated with water network distribution.
- Understand the processes associated with energy management of pumped systems within water networks.
- Understand the principles of risk assessment and contingency planning for water network operations.
- Undertake risk assessment and contingency planning for water network operations, identifying potential hazards and developing mitigation strategies.
- Understand the principles of effective valve management in water distribution networks.
- Undertake valve management activities, including inspection, maintenance, and repair.
Water Network Distribution – Supply Interruptions Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to record supply interruption events
- Understand how to measure supply interruption events
- Record supply interruption events
- Measure supply interruption events
- Understand the process of maintaining a piped supply
- Maintain a piped supply
- Understand how to provide a replacement water supply
- Provide a replacement water supply
- Understand compensation entitlements for loss of water supply
Water Network Distribution – Water Quality and Hygiene Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand water quality regulations and standards relevant to water network distribution.
- Understand why water is treated and disinfected to ensure its safety and potability.
- Understand how water quality is controlled and maintained throughout the distribution network.
- Understand hygienic working practices in the water industry to prevent contamination.
- Undertake water quality sampling and apply hygienic practices during water network operations.
Water Network Distribution – Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the design and operation of hot water systems
- Understand the design and operation of cold water systems
- Understand the requirements for fittings used in water systems
- Understand the requirements for materials used in water systems
- Understand how backflow can occur
- Understand how contamination can occur
- Understand how backflow can be prevented
- Understand how contamination can be prevented
- Understand how to provide information regarding the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations
- Understand how to provide advice regarding the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations
- Understand how to identify systems for compliance with the water regulations
- Understand how to inspect systems for compliance with the water regulations
- Undertake water systems testing
- Undertake water systems inspections
Water Network – Asset Management Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of asset lifecycles
- Understand the principles of asset management systems
- Understand how water industry assets are financed
- Understand the factors associated with poor performing infrastructure assets
- Understand the factors associated with poor performing non-infrastructure assets
- Understand the principles of new mains techniques
- Understand the principles of mains renewal techniques
- Understand the principles of rehabilitation techniques
- Understand the selection of new mains techniques
- Understand the selection of mains renewal techniques
- Understand the selection of rehabilitation techniques
Water Network – Customer Service Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of customer enquiries related to water networks.
- Deal with customer enquiries in a professional and timely manner.
- Understand the procedures for resolving customer concerns and issues related to water networks.
- Resolve customer concerns and issues effectively and efficiently.
- Understand how to address and resolve customers’ water distribution related enquiries.
- Address and resolve customers’ water distribution related enquiries accurately and professionally.
- Understand performance measures and targets in relation to water supply.
- Use performance measures and targets to monitor and improve water supply services.
Water Network – Leakage Detection and Location Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand techniques used in leakage detection and network performance analysis in water distribution systems.
- Undertake techniques used in leakage detection and network performance analysis to identify and quantify water losses.
- Understand how to prepare and prioritise leak location activities based on available data and resources.
- Undertake the preparation and prioritisation of leak location activities to ensure efficient and effective leak detection.
- Understand the location and avoidance of underground apparatus during leak detection and repair activities.
- Undertake the location and avoidance of underground apparatus to prevent damage and ensure safety.
- Understand the management of customer side leakage and its impact on water resources.
- Manage customer side leakage through customer engagement and appropriate interventions.
- Understand repair processes for leakage repair in water distribution networks.
- Recommend appropriate repair processes for leakage repair based on the nature and extent of the leak.
Water Network – Materials and Components Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the components of a water distribution network
- Understand the purpose and function of service reservoirs
- Understand the purpose and function of water towers
- Understand the purpose and function of pumps
- Understand the purpose and function of boosters
- Understand the purpose and function of trunk mains
- Understand the purpose and function of district metered areas (DMAs)
- Understand the properties and applications of different pipe materials
Water Treatment and Networks – Regulation and Compliance Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the UK water supply regulatory framework
- Understand regulatory performance measures
- Understand how regulation impacts the operational activities within a water company
- Understand the hygiene regulations and requirements governing water operations
- Understand the health and safety regulations
Water Treatment and Networks – Science and Applied Mathematics Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand mathematical techniques commonly used in water supply and treatment
- Understand the chemical characteristics of water
- Understand the physical characteristics of water
- Understand the microbiological characteristics of water
- Understand the environmental impact of the water industry
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Analyse data to identify potential leakage
- Standard
Assess the configuration of metered areas
- Standard
Carry out valve operations on the water distribution network
- Standard
Communicate with customers in the utilities sector
- Standard
Decommission Water Networks
- Standard
Disinfect Water Mains
- Standard
Educate and Increase Stakeholders’ Knowledge of Water Fittings Compliance Requirements
- Standard
Educate, guide and enforce to secure water fittings compliance with legislation
- Standard
Plan operational network activities
- Standard
Prove metered areas on the distribution network
- Standard
Research and share information about trends and developments in the water industry
- Standard
Trace the route of water pipes and locate surface fittings and street furniture
- Standard
Use leakage detection techniques to identify the location of water loss
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Lead Asset Analyst
This work can lead to operations leadership roles such as Director of Operations or Head of Supply Chain and Logistics.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by CABWI Awarding Body rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Water Network Distribution – Operation of District Metered AreasWater Network Distribution – Operation of Service Reservoirs, Pumps and Trunk MainsWater Network Distribution – Supply InterruptionsWater Network Distribution – Water Quality and HygieneWater Network Distribution – Water Supply (Water Fittings) RegulationsWater Network – Asset ManagementWater Network – Customer ServiceWater Network – Leakage Detection and Location
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
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You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
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“Water Network – Asset Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Analyse data to identify potential leakage
- Assess the configuration of metered areas
- Carry out valve operations on the water distribution network
- Communicate with customers in the utilities sector
- Decommission Water Networks
- Disinfect Water Mains
- Educate and Increase Stakeholders’ Knowledge of Water Fittings Compliance Requirements
- Educate, guide and enforce to secure water fittings compliance with legislation
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Water Network Distribution – Operation of District Metered Areas, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers the management of water pressure within district metreed areas, including recording and managing low pressure registers. Learners will apply pressure management techniques and undertake network changes to address low pressure issues.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for CABWI Level 3 Diploma in Water Network - Distribution
11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by CABWI Awarding Body.
- Water Network Distribution – Operation of District Metered Areas
- Water Network Distribution – Operation of Service Reservoirs, Pumps and Trunk Mains
- Water Network Distribution – Supply Interruptions
- Water Network Distribution – Water Quality and Hygiene
- Water Network Distribution – Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations
- Water Network – Asset Management
and 5 more in the full unit list below.
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