Venezuela - Hydrology and Water Resources 1984/85

A personal experience of the value of education

and training in hydrology

I must admit that when I was awarded a WMO fellowship to attend the 1984-1985 international course on Hydrology at IHE, even though I had been working for a couple of years in the Venezuelan National Hydrological Service (Dirección de Hydrología y Meteorología, DHM, was the official name at the time), I had a very vague idea of what were the priority areas where I needed to get trained in order to be of most benefit to my organization.

Furthermore, I was too inexpert to really know what was the overall status of our observational network, hydrological databank, and processing methods. I was ill-prepared to choose which subjects I needed to dedicate more time to. As a consequence, I chose to give special attention to those areas that appealed most to my professional “taste”.

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