Projects
Management of the water resources of the Lower Don Basin, Russia
This project developed a decision support system for the operation, management and control of the resources of the Don basin, and for the equitable allocation between the demands of irrigation, navigation, industrial and public supply.
National Water Management Plan, Bangladesh
This project formulated a plan for environmentally sound water resources development. New methodologies captured end-user views, and transformed national policy into agreed actions responsive to user needs.
Halcrow provides services in all aspects of water resources management and planning
The efficient management and planning of water resources is central to creating a water secure world.
The Global Water Partnership (GWP), with its vision for “a water secure world” and its mission to “support the sustainable development and management of water resources at all levels” has built up a network of regional and country partnerships to bring various sectors and interest groups together, to identify and discuss their common water problems, and to develop action plans based on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). According to GWP IWRM has three core objectives:
- efficiency to make water resources go as far as possible;
- equity, in the allocation of water across different social and economic groups;
- environmental sustainability, to protect the water resources base and associated eco-systems.
Water managers and planners tend to work within their own field of influence, the “Water Box” as described in UN World Water Development Report Nr 3 (UNESCO, 2009). But many decisions concerning water use are made outside the water box, for example by politicians, ministers, economists, etc, - hence the cry in Development Report Nr 3 to “get outside the Water Box”. Indeed this is a central tenet of IWRM – the integrated approach involves multiple sectors, and engages all relevant institutions that have an influence over water use in the decision making process.
Halcrow provides services in all aspects of water resources management and planning, covering:
- river basin management plans
- water resources master plans
- drought contingency plans
- water resources studies
- supply – demand balance
- simulation and optimisation of water resource systems
- hydrological modelling and analysis
- hydraulic modelling and analysis
- hydrogeology and groundwater modelling
- geomorphology and sediment transport
- demand forecasting and demand management
- option evaluation including supply and demand side measures
- watershed management, forestry, fisheries and soil conservation
- flood risk management
- water reform
- institutional development
- socio-economic analysis
- adaptation to climate change
- stakeholder consultation and community participation
- GIS
- research and development
- software services and decision support systems