A list of courses based on our members’ demand.
Every course here is led by a hand-picked international expert, someone who has actually done the work on real projects, not just taught it, and who shares the values this community is built on.
These are built for people who want to go deep.
The format follows the topic: some are video-on-demand, so you learn at your own pace; others are live sessions with a small cohort, so we can work through the specific cases in the room and get the most out of every participant.
The catalogue grows over time.
On Artificial Intelligence
Take the first step towards understanding AI across the full lifecycle of water operations — from data and analytics to prediction, optimization, automation, and semi-autonomous decision-making.
The course includes 10 on-demand modules to learn at your own pace, plus 5 live cohort sessions focused on real-world cases and practical discussion.
Work with AI and data science teams without coding, while understanding where technologies such as soft sensors, predictive maintenance, optimization, and AI agents actually succeed — and fail — in water operations.
Join us: REGISTER
On Desalination
1. Desalination Course for Beginners
From first principles to a working picture of an SWRO plant: the process train, the key equipment, and the vocabulary to hold your own in any technical conversation. The fastest honest route from “I’ve heard of desal” to “I understand how it works.”
This course was built for four profiles:
Recent graduates entering the water sector with the theory but no sense of how a plant — or a project — actually comes together.
Professionals crossing over from other industries (oil & gas, power, civil and industrial construction) who understand delivery, but not desalination.
Water professionals from other disciplines — networks, wastewater, hydrology — facing their first desal project.
Desal practitioners with 1–5 years of experience, on their first or second project, who can execute their own scope but lack the picture around it.
Many specialists work in silos and are increasingly looking to understand what happens beyond their own area.
This is essential not only for technical specialists, but also for project managers, coordinators, procurement professionals, draftsmen, project controls, quality teams, and many others.
What’s covered?
Where Desalination Comes From, and Why It Exists — why the map of who desalinates looks the way it does
The Plant from Above — the full chain end to end, how to read a process flow diagram, and the design drivers that decide everything downstream
Intake and Outfall — open intakes, submarine outfalls, and the three construction routes: HDPE, GRP, and microtunnelling
Pretreatment — DAF, gravity and pressure filtration, cartridge filters, and why this is where plants are won or lost
Reverse Osmosis — membranes, trains, pumps, recovery and flux, energy recovery, fouling and cleaning
Post-Treatment — remineralization, disinfection, and meeting the product water specification
Storage and Water Transfer — tanks, pumping, transmission, and the delivery point
How a Desalination Project Actually Happens — feasibility to commissioning, and who is who along the way
The Project Management Playbook — schedule, cost control, and the stakeholder grey zones nobody warns you about
Case Studies: Reading Real Plants — some real plants worldwide, analysed with a method you can reuse on any project
Register your interest HERE
2. Intake & Outfall
The marine works that make or break an SWRO project. Design, procurement, and construction of seawater intakes and brine outfalls — the decisions, the trade-offs, and the site realities — from someone who has supervised these works in the field.
💡 Why this course?
You won’t find comparable content on the market. Small design details in intake & outfall systems can cost millions of dollars, knowledge here is essential.
💡How to Register?
Just send a message to info@thewatermba.com or contact through LinkedIn.
💰 Investment: $/EUR 299
💰 Return: Be among the top 1% in this niche.
⏳ Content: 10 hours of expert insights
🛠 Extras: Actionable tools and worksheets
On Reuse
International Water Reuse Programme
In development, starting on 2027.
On Communication and Media
🌐 Social Media for Water Professionals
Like it or not, the digital ecosystem is now part of the water industry.
Whether you’re a utility, an EPC contractor, a technology provider, a consultant, a researcher, or an individual professional, the question is no longer whether you should have a digital presence.
It’s how to build one that creates value. You may not enjoy social media. You may even see it as a “tax” of modern professional life.
But being absent also has a cost: missed opportunities, weaker visibility, and less influence.
That’s why we’re launching a practical course on Social Media for Water Professionals.
You’ll learn:
📌 Which platform is best for each objective.
💼 LinkedIn, X, Instagram, YouTube, Substack, Spotify, and others.
🎥 What type of content works on each network.
📈 How to grow an audience without becoming a full-time creator.
🤝 How companies and individuals can use digital channels to build trust, attract talent, generate business, and share knowledge.
Just practical strategies tailored to the water sector, so you can communicate your expertise where your audience already is.
On Water Business
The Water MBA Express
In development. The whole sector, fast. A condensed tour of how the water business actually works — utilities, financing, regulation, and the commercial logic behind the infrastructure.
The mental map that usually takes years to build, in a fraction of the time.
Don’t see what you need?
Tell us the problem you’re trying to solve, and we’ll build a learning experience around it — matched to the right expert. That’s how several of the courses above started.
→ [Reach out / request a course] info@thewatermba.com