Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene
Tetra Tech provides multi-disciplinary expertise in engineering, environment, economics, and community development to address water security challenges in emerging economies across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
As part of Tetra Tech’s One Water team, our water security experts bring US expertise combined with extensive international experience. Using our Leading with Science® approaches and Tech’s proprietary suite of technologies, tools, and software, we partner with a variety of clients, including donors, governments, and the private sector to deliver innovative, proven, and data-driven solutions.
Our team has decades of success expanding sustainable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in urban and rural contexts and strengthening water resource governance. Combined with over 30 years of experience navigating the complexities of global operations in over 30 countries, Tetra Tech is uniquely placed to develop context-specific solutions that address the unique political, economic, financial, environmental, and social aspects of each assignment.
Water Supply
Tetra Tech works with our clients and partner stakeholders to strengthen water supply systems and access to drinking water. Services include design and quality assurance, quality control (QA/QC) of rural water supply schemes and urban water supply networks, water conservation and reuse, public and private sector water governance policies and regulations improvement, utility reform processes, and mobilization of finance to improve water delivery.
- Water system planning, design, engineering, and construction management
- Utility performance management and non-revenue water reduction
Energy efficiency - Corporate governance and regulatory improvements
- Investment readiness and transaction support
- Digital water solutions
- Strategic planning and master planning
- Customer engagement and outreach
- Tariff analysis and reform
Sanitation and Hygiene
Tetra Tech supports our clients to expand access to centralized wastewater services and decentralized sanitation service delivery options, bolster the market for sanitation and hygiene products and services, and accelerate the uptake of sanitation and hygiene behaviors among households and institutions.
- City-wide sanitation planning
- Sanitation marketing and enterprise strengthening
- Centralized and decentralized wastewater treatment services including fecal sludge management
- Wastewater reuse and circular economy initiatives
- Household and community behavior change
- Menstrual hygiene management at schools, workplaces, and communities
Water Resources Management
We are experts in water resources management globally. Our team collaborates with public and private sector water resource managers and users from local- to national-scale projects to strengthen water resource stewardship and security and development of the next generation of water specialists through internship and training programs.
- GIS hydraulic and land-use modeling
- Water quality monitoring and remediation
- Water basin governance, planning, and allocation
- Watershed protection, rehabilitation, and stewardship
- Water conservation, water treatment, and reuse for municipalities, agriculture, industry and commercial users
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