Global water consumption has risen almost fivefold in the last 50 years, and it continues to grow. Coupled with the cost of developing water infrastructure and a shortage of new cost-effective water storage sites, this points to a looming global shortfall. Such shortages already exist in many parts of the world.
As water has become scarce, disputes between competing users are causing tension locally, nationally and even internationally.
The water debate in many developed countries has focused on resolving competing demands for increasingly scarce water resources, mitigating the environmental impacts of water extraction, storage and return, and progressing policy and institutional reform to achieve these outcomes.
Our work in this sector has included:
Hydropower generator: entering the water sector
Note: client names have not been disclosed due to confidentiality arrangements.
Competition for increasingly scarce and valuable water will force us to take new approaches. |