Sanitation Courses and Certifications

Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies

1211 ratings at Coursera

Plan affordable, context-specific urban sanitation systems using citywide planning frameworks, technologies from single pits to centralised treatment, project management cycles, and global best-practice case studies.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Faecal Sludge Management

684 ratings at Coursera

Learn to design city-wide faecal sludge management: size and operate treatment technologies, plan collection and transport, and arrange institutional, financial and stakeholder support.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 1: Understanding Complex Problems

8 ratings

Our course explores what can be done to solve the complex problem that half a billion people worldwide do not have improved water supplies and two billion do not have improved sanitation.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2: Developing Effective Interventions

81 ratings at Coursera

Analyze water and sanitation policy interventions in developing countries: planning protocols, tariff design and subsidies, household information campaigns, utility privatization, and sector regulation.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

IIT Kharagpur;  NPTEL

Urban Utilities Planning: Water Supply, Sanitation and Drainage

Connects urban utilities planning with water-sensitive approaches and infrastructure design.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

Impulsando servicios integrales de agua y saneamiento rural

Herramientas y buenas prácticas para diseñar, gobernar, gestionar y operar servicios rurales de agua, saneamiento e higiene sostenibles, resilientes e inclusivos en América Latina y el Caribe.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Saneamiento óptimo: un paradigma integral y sostenible

Presenta un enfoque integral y sostenible del saneamiento basado en personas, gobernanza, cuencas hidrográficas y tecnologías.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Climate Change in Water and Sanitation Utilities

56 ratings at Coursera

Reduce carbon emissions in urban water and sanitation utilities: follow a five-step low-carbon roadmap, assess greenhouse gas emissions with the ECAM tool, and evaluate climate risks.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Impulsando servicios integrales de agua y saneamiento rural

Descubre herramientas, estrategias y buenas prácticas para promover la universalización de servicios de agua, saneamiento e higiene, de calidad, sostenibles, resilientes e inclusivos en el contexto ru

• edX
• 5 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Saneamiento óptimo: un paradigma integral y sostenible

Implementa estrategias innovadoras en el sector de agua y saneamiento para mejorar la planificación, diseño, gestión y operación de los servicios de saneamiento en las ciudades con base en el paradigm

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

New paradigms in wastewater management: from a sanitation problem to a circular sustainable solution

Treat wastewater as a resource: follow the shift from treatment plants to biorefineries, with energy saving and recovery, water reuse for agriculture and industry, and material recovery.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 5 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Climate Change in Water and Sanitation Utilities

Did you know that some urban water and sanitation utilities are leading the way towards a carbon-neutral future? If you are a professional or an active stakeholder in the water and sanitation sector a

• edX
• 10 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Black Hat

Engineering Cybersecurity for a Nation - What Singapore is Learning from Cars and Sanitation

A talk on how Singapore is rethinking national cybersecurity for its Smart Nation ambitions using lessons from cars and sanitation.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Water: Addressing the Global Crisis

7 ratings at edX

We are living in a water stressed world. It is a global crisis and therefore we must act now! What can we do to save the planet and ensure availability of water for all by 2030?

• edX
• 9 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Open Education Consortium (OEC)

The Biology of Water and Health – Fundamentals

Learn from Tufts University about the provision of safe water, sanitation and sustainability to improve global public health.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate