Water Sector Consulting
Water is a vital element to all life on earth. As such, the quality and supply of water has far-reaching implications – from public health and sanitation to agriculture and food security, to economic and industry developments. In 2019, the World Bank Group published “Quality Unknown: The Invisible Water Crisis” to highlight the growing concerns of water supply and quality in the modern world, aggravated by land-use changes, growing industrialization developments, and varying rainfall patterns due to climate change.
The team at IED have experts and professional with wide experiences in this old but changing sector and we are committed to helping our clients in their missions to create and maintain a safe and reliable water supply for all.
We Provide Answers To Key Questions In The Industry
- Can drip irrigation cost-effectively replace irrigation flooding techniques?
- Can hydropower plants built on irrigation dams and pipelines provide reasonable IRRs?
- How can all the global rural population obtain water services in this century and how will the costs of providing such services be paid?
- How can the increased cost of supplying electricity to new water facilities be offset with renewable energy options developed and operated by water companies?
Irrigation
Facing a growing world population, the demand for irrigated agriculture grows by the day. It one of the critical infrastructures that acts as the custodian to our agriculture and food security.
At IED, we are keenly aware of the challenges the most salient issues pertaining irrigation including the reliability of irrigation water sources, rising costs of irrigation projects, the optimization of irrigation systems, and others. We are prepared to assist our clients in addressing those challenges.
Desalination
Desalination is the process of converting saline water into freshwater for use in consumption, agriculture, and various industrial activities. With increasing water demand around the world, more people and industries are turning to desalination as a pathway to provide fresh water to many essential freshwater needs.
At IED, we are ready to help clients look into some key areas of concerns with desalination operations like the cost factors, quality of desalinated water, concentrate management and beyond.
Water treatment
Whether it is for consumption, industrial uses, agriculture, or returning wastewater back-to-back to nature, water treatment has always been a necessary step to ensure that the quality of water is suitable the specific end use. While the process itself is no new, transformational developments like digitalization, water reuse, and sludge repurposing has consistently delivered breakthroughs.
At IED, we want to help clients leverage on these new tools and processes to improve value, optimize performance. and increase system resilience.
Water Transmission
Water transmission networks is one of the most critical public infrastructures in the modern society, channelling water from a centralised facility to decentralized points of usage. With its size an complexity, a lot of planning, optimization, and maintenance is required to ensure that pipelines are running optimally and reliably.
At IED, we are well equipped to support our clients with infrastructural solutions, combining state of the art digital advances to ensure quality and consistency in delivering water to various points of usage.
Urban Water
Densely urbanized cities with large populations and concentrated infrastructures face unique challenges in water and water environments. Some major problems numerous cities face includes surface water pollutions, declining water tables from high water use, and seasonal water shortages. These challenges will likely remain prevalent as the world continue to urbanize.
At IED Consulting, our experts have worked closely with city municipalities and have adept understanding of urban water challenges. We are committed in delivering holistic urban water management solutions to facilitate sustainable and clean water developments in cities.
Energy Nexus
The water-energy nexus establishes crucial interplay between two major public resources. On one hand, energy production processes consume about 15% of the world’s water withdrawal. On another hand, water infrastructure relies heavily on energy in every step of its value chain. Therefore, integrated developments of the two sectors are crucial in achieving a dual-optimal outcome.
Being dual proficient in both water and energy sectors, IED is well positioned to discover sectorial synergies and cross-cutting improvement measures in conjoined frontiers in the energy-water nexus.
