Water treatment and transmission
Few things are more important for the well-being of a society than safe drinking water.
Ensuring delivery and quality of water is a serious responsibility that requires the navigation of multiple challenges, from population growth and urbanization through to aging infrastructure, the impacts of climate change, and emerging contaminants.
Increasing regulatory requirements, funding limitations, rising energy costs, and threats to the cyber and physical security of water assets further complicate this landscape. At the same time, we need to balance our water needs with ecosystem preservation and ensure communities have equitable access to safe drinking water.
Water utilities need to be adaptive in managing, planning, and developing their infrastructure to meet customers’ needs, while addressing these challenges in both the short and long term.
What can we do for you?
Whether you’re in the public or private sector, we can work with you to address your water treatment and transmission needs.
Water infrastructure
We develop new water supply networks that are robust and secure, using our expertise in modernizing and maximizing use of aging treatment infrastructure and network assets. We plan, design, and manage the construction and delivery of advanced treatment systems, optimizing pipeline alignments for social and environmental acceptance, buildability, cost, time, and carbon savings.
Water quality improvement
Our global team address specific water quality issues and upgrade existing assets to meet changing consumer demand and environmental conditions, complying with new regulations, and taking advantage of advances in technology.
Operational efficiency and cost reduction
We develop data-driven solutions for resource and asset management, including real-time water quality monitoring and management. This enables treatment to be tuned to conditions, saving energy, chemicals, and operational carbon, and prolonging asset life. By modeling network capacity and efficiency, and applying digital asset management, we guide proactive maintenance and develop resilience and emergency preparedness strategies to maintain dependable, secure water supply.
Advanced water treatment and transmission solutions
Our technical experts address the full range of your needs — from initial studies and business case, through project definition, procurement and delivery, to commissioning. We also provide lifecycle asset management, including training and knowledge transfer and ongoing advisory services.
Our experience
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Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance, East of England, UKIn the face of declining rainfall and a growing population, we’re working to boost resilience in the supply of drinking water for millions of people by designing the UK’s largest water infrastructure project, consisting of about 310 miles (500 km) of pipelines to transfer water from areas of surplus to those more vulnerable to drought.
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Camden Parkside PFAS treatment facility, New Jersey, USAContamination from manufactured chemicals threatens water supplies in many areas, including Camden, just outside Philadelphia. We worked with construction partners to deliver a new water treatment facility that removes PFAS from water supplies destined for 20,000 residents.
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Denver Water lead remediation, Colorado, USAMMFIT, our innovative digital field inspection tool, allowed field workers to enter data on service lines into their laptop or tablet, map the data visually using geographic information systems (GIS), and automatically populate a GIS database and work order system for allocating resources.
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Dhaka environmentally sustainable water supply, BangladeshThe water table falls by 7 to 10 feet (2 to 3 m) each year in rapidly urbanizing Dhaka, resulting in wastewater contamination of freshwater supplies. The nearest usable supply for east Dhaka is the Meghna River, some 25 miles (40 km) away. We’re helping to bring that supply to nearly five million people by designing and managing construction of 60 miles (100 km) of new pipeline — in some of the deepest tunnels in Bangladesh — and the country’s biggest treatment plant.
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Lower Catskill Aqueduct service life extension, New York, USAReplacing this century-old aqueduct that provides 40 percent of New York City’s water would be astronomically expensive so, using digital tools to keep project costs down and minimize service disruption, we are helping to remediate the existing aqueduct so water can continue to flow to New Yorkers for another 100 years.
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Witches Oak Water green recovery programme, Derbyshire, UKWe designed 31 new floating wetlands to provide entirely biological primary treatment for water — in a reservoir originally considered too expensive to treat for drinking water supply. The wetlands remove sedimentary and algal contamination, enabling the reservoir to play a vital role in strengthening local water supply.
Route Optimizer
Route Optimizer equips planners and designers to find the most efficient alignment for pipelines, taking into account environmental and social constraints alongside capital and operational costs. A clear and intuitive web-based graphic interface assists stakeholder engagement and communication to support effective decision-making.
Smart Water
Smart Water harnesses data to improve water resource management, water treatment and transmission, and wastewater collection and treatment. It provides real-time and predictive asset performance to enable proactive maintenance and better decision-making.
