The Ferghana Valley Water Resources Management
Project addresses a situation where the excessively high water
table requires measures covering a large region and various
coordinated activities. We are providing project management
Mott MacDonald has unrivalled experience in water resource
management and sanitation around the world, coupled with a strong
commitment to implementing sustainability principles.
Water is central to all our lives but its quality and availability
are threatened by pollution, climate change, building development
and changing land use.
Today, more than 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking
water and more than 2.6 billion have no safe sanitation. In more
developed countries, demand for potable water continues to rise,
while resources become ever more stretched. In other areas, too
much water is a problem. Heavy rainfall can lead to flooding and
displacement of people, and other associated impacts on people’s
health and well-being.
A growing appreciation of the need to protect the environment is
driving innovation in wastewater treatment and disposal across the
world. Sustainability is the key driver for all these changes in
the water sector.
Our key sustainability skills in the water sector include:
- Maximising long term usage and development of water
resources
- Utilising integrated water resources management, river basin
management and demand management techniques
- Optimising power and chemical consumption, and minimising waste
production in water and wastewater treatment processes
- Reducing storm water and sewage discharge to water courses by
the promoting use of sustainable drainage systems and elimination
of combined sewer outfalls
- Promoting appropriate technologies to facilitate adequate and
long term revenue streams for operation and maintenance
expenditure
- Reducing leakage and unaccounted for water in water supply
systems
- Promoting effluent reuse and recycling of construction
materials
- Committing to community involvement in project development
including empowering less influential groups and gender
awareness
- Carrying out institutional strengthening and capacity building
activities for technical staff and customers engaged in water
projects
- Designing flood protection structures and carrying out
strategic flood risk assessments
