PA's Water IQC team and subcontractors
PA Government Services Inc., part of PA Consulting Group, has assembled an outstanding team to support USAID headquarters and its Missions across the spectrum of Integrated Water and Coastal Resources Management (IWCRM) tasks.
As a current Water IQC prime contractor, PA has five years' experience implementing multiple long-term water and coastal projects for USAID Missions. Drawing on this experience, we have carefully selected 21 world-class subcontractors that, together with PA, cover each of the seven illustrative technical areas and all nine cross-cutting approaches and methodologies. We have also added to our core IQC team dedicated expertise in gender and volunteerism strategies that yield positive results for efficiency and effectiveness.
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Primary partners
MWH Americas, Inc.
MWH’s comprehensive services include water and wastewater treatment design and construction, water treatment and supply, industrial treatment and solid waste management, energy and hydropower, environmental program management, mining engineering, air quality control, laboratory services, applied research, finance, information technology, and government relations.
Areas of expertise range from traditional engineering, design and construction management to complex design-build, privatization, program management, information technology, asset management, financing and business consulting. MWH’s resources exceed 6,100 employees in 156 offices across 36 countries, and annual revenues exceeded $1 billion in 2003, making MWH one of the largest engineering and construction companies in the world. Forbes magazine has ranked MWH among the 300 largest privately-held companies.
MWH has been repeatedly honored by international associations, industry experts and leading publications. The firm consistently ranks among the US’s top engineering and construction service providers. MWH was awarded the ‘2003 World Class Solution’ award by DM Review for the knowledge management network KNet, and received first-place honors from the Associated General Contractors of America for its safety program. Industry publication Engineering-News Record has awarded leadership positions to the company for its expertise in water, wastewater and hazardous waste management.
View MWH's Web site here: http://www.mwhglobal.com/
ECODIT, Inc.
ECODIT has an enviable reputation as a reliable, cost-effective and results-oriented water and environmental consulting firm with global reach. Founded in 1993, ECODIT has provided integrated water resources and coastal management technical assistance services to national and local governments, local communities, NGOs and businesses in over 25 countries across four continents.
The firm has improved water/coastal resource use and management practices durably by working closely with local communities and institutions to help them plan, design, implement, operate and maintain adapted water and wastewater technologies and policies. ECODIT has implemented flagship wastewater treatment and reuse in small/rural communities, and industrial pollution prevention/control projects - especially in the Middle East and North Africa. ECODIT has had a permanent office in Lebanon since 2000 and hence is able to draw on a large pool of highly qualified specialists to provide timely and cost-effective technical assistance throughout the Arab world.
Visit ECODIT's Web site here: http://www.ecodit.com/ecodit.htm
Other subcontractors
Abt Associates Inc.
Abt Associates Inc., founded in 1965, is a social science research and consulting firm with approximately 1,100 full-time professional employees. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with corporate offices in the Washington, D.C. area, Chicago, Cairo, and Johannesburg, as well as project offices around the world.
Abt Associates’ International Environment and Natural Resources practice provides results-oriented services relating to risk assessment and environmental health, urban development, institutional strengthening, industrial pollution prevention, sustainable development planning, and natural resources management. Key analytic disciplines include environmental economics and finance, environmental science and engineering, and policy and program evaluation. Our geographic coverage is broad, with work in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe (including states of the former Soviet Union), and Latin America.
Visit the Abt Associates Web site: http://www.abtassociates.com
Agland Investment Services, Inc.
For the past 30 years, Agland Investment Services has been active in agribusiness and water development projects around the world. Agland works with both the private and public sectors, from corporations to government agencies, to get projects off the drawing board and to the point of commercial viability. Services are provided in finance, economics, farm management, marketing, and technical consultation to agricultural producers and food processors. Agland's work for the public sector encompasses advising governments on agricultural policy, privatization, land use planning, and environmental impact assessments.
For example, Agland has worked in Romania with water users associations to develop high-value crop alternatives - especially alfalfa and soybeans - to pay for irrigation systems improvements financed by the World Bank. In Tunisia, Agland conducted economic analyses as part of a National Water Sector Study that emphasized water conservation, water markets, improved groundwater management, and the use of recycled water. Agland’s private sector work has always been a major emphasis and has included supporting start-up ventures in agribusiness - particularly in the fruit, vegetable, wine, and cut flower business - in many areas of the world.
Visit the Agland Investment Services, Inc. Web site: http://www.aglandinvest.com
AJGB International, Inc.
AJGB International, Inc. is an 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business providing environmental and water resources consulting services since 1993. AJGB specializes in water resources management and rural and urban sanitation, typically assisting developing and middle-income countries to formulate and develop comprehensive environmental sanitation systems.
AJGB has provided consulting services for projects in Africa, SE Asia, Central Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Its most recent projects include formulating the regulatory framework for environmental clean-up in Chile, and technical assistance in implementing a management program for solid and hazardous waste in The Bahamas. Among AJGB's water resources projects are scoping the work for rehabilitating a large irrigation system in Uzbekistan, and the terms of reference for developing an interactive weather data processing system for large-scale river forecast models in Romania.
Visit the AJGB International, Inc Web site: http://members.aol.com/ajgb1
Battelle
Since its inception in 1929 as a charitable trust, Battelle has grown to a 16,000-person organization and is recognized as a global leader in science and technology capacity building. Battelle provides expertise in research and development, integration of science and technology into policymaking, technology transfer and commercialization, and institutional capacity building in environment and energy, health and human services, food and agriculture, transportation systems, national security, and commercial industrial processes.
Battelle scientists provide a full range of technical services to support a diversity of challenges facing industry, government agencies, and private companies in the protection and management of natural resources. Our staff includes experts in all types of environmental media: soil, surface water and sediments, ground water, air, and terrestrial and aquatic wildlife. By investing in Ph.D. - and M.S. - level environmental scientists and engineers, Battelle brings an unparalleled skill level to each client and has established a reputation for providing objective, technically superior, cost-effective, and timely support.
Visit the Battelle Web site: http://www.battelle.org
Computer Assisted Development, Inc. (CADI)
CADI is certified as an SDB/SBE/MBE/DBE with the U.S. Small Business Administration - Small Disadvantaged Business. During its 15-year history CADI has successfully completed 100 projects in Central, South, and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.
CADI is a team of engineers, scientists, planners, and managers with diverse project experiences and a shared interest in domestic and international water issues. It is one of the leading small business consulting firms in this field, providing technical services and products worldwide, and using various computer-assisted approaches since 1987.
The team provides short-term technical assistance, long-term advisory services, technology transfer, research, and training in agricultural development and water resource management; watershed management and natural resource conservation; applied information technology; and human and institutional capacity building. CADI also provides products for informed decision making using water resources geo-databases for agencies and organizations and decision support systems for water management.
Visit the Computer Assisted Development Web site: http://www.cadi-usa.com
Conservation International
Founded in 1987, Conservation International (CI) believes that the Earth's natural heritage must be maintained if future generations are to thrive spiritually, culturally, and economically. Our mission is to conserve the Earth's living natural heritage - our global biodiversity - and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature. CI works strategically to conserve Earth's most biodiversity-rich and threatened places. We rigorously measure our results based on three criteria: avoiding species extinctions, protecting critical habitats, and establishing landscape-scale conservation corridors that can reconcile biodiversity conservation and socioeconomic objectives. Our success relies on obtaining and sharing sound science; creating and supporting diverse partnerships; and demonstrating the links between human welfare and biodiversity, in order to increase the quality of life for people everywhere.
Visit the Conservation International Web site: http://www.conservation.org
The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL)
CORAL is a member-supported, non-profit organization that possesses expertise in - and an international reputation for - sustainable coral reef tourism and coral park management worldwide. The organization offers training and technical assistance in: sustainable coral reef marine recreation; building conservation alliances between community, businesses, and reef management; sustainable conservation financing; threat reduction; marine protected area management; and community benefit sharing.
The organization is recognized for its educational materials, which include the 'Guide to Good Practice for the Marine Recreation Sector', good environmental practices for tourists, and training manuals in a variety of topics, such as moorings, user fees, fundraising, and reef ecology, threats and solutions.
CORAL has expertise in community-based conservation, sustainable tourism, coral reef management, outreach and education, and monitoring and evaluation. Its staff have published in academic journals and trade magazines, co-authored technical reports, and spoken as leaders at industry and conservation conferences.
Visit the CORAL Web site: http://www.coralreefalliance.org/
Development and Training Services, Inc. (DTS)
Development & Training Services, Inc. (DTS) provides strategic consulting support to strengthen the positive role and impact of gender in development initiatives worldwide. DTS’s particular expertise is in integrating socio-economic variables such as gender, class, ethnicity, race, religion and culture to create comprehensive strategies and impact.
The firm comprises gender experts with diverse sectoral and international experience and expertise built on strong academic credentials. Current clients include many major donor agencies, such as the World Bank and USAID.
DTS provides research, technical assistance and training in gender integration in many sectors including: infrastructure and natural resource management; democracy and governance; and economic growth and trade. The firm has worked internationally in the water and energy sectors to provide clients with practical gender strategies that yield positive results for efficiency and effectiveness.
Visit the DTS Web site: http://www.devts.com
DHI Water & Environment
DHI offers a wide range of consulting services and products based on the development and application of know-how and advanced technologies in urban water and industry, water resources, and coastal and marine areas. It is a Danish-based, independent, international consulting and research organization with a total staff of 450 and 15 international offices.
DHI's competencies include numerical modeling, environmental laboratories and physical modeling test facilities, field surveys and monitoring, and institutional capacity building and training. DHI is a world-leading provider of professional software packages for the water environment including hydrodynamics, sediments, water quality and ecology.
As a resource center for Global Water Partnership and Collaborating Center for UNEP, DHI has been instrumental in developing and promoting internationally agreed principles and concepts for integrated water resources management at local, national and regional scale.
Visit the DHI Web site: http://www.dhi.dk/
Dobbin International Inc.
Dobbin International Inc. has been providing specialized planning, design, and management services to public- and private-sector clients worldwide since 1976, focusing on Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) planning; regional economic development planning; coastal and marine protected area planning; legal, policy and institutional assessment and strategies; coastal waterfront and urban development planning; and tourism, ecotourism and resort master planning.
As a pioneer and leader in the field of ICM planning (being the first firm to offer ICM planning services), Dobbin has a substantial body of work and experience renowned for its diversity and excellence. Dobbin conducts a variety of projects - ranging from strategic plans for entire regions to coastal and watershed management plans for small sites - in a variety of settings including temperate, tropical, desert, island and arctic environments.
Dobbin specializes in inter-disciplinary, collaborative planning processes, including a broad range of stakeholders in the process to develop technically sound, sustainable and appropriate coastal management solutions. Dobbin's professionals share a common vision: to assist domestic and international clients in identifying opportunities to achieve their full social, environmental, and economic potential in their coastal zones – whether local, national, regional or global in scope.
Visit the Dobbin International Inc Web site: http://www.dobbin.org/
Earth Satellite Corporation
EarthSat is an international professional services firm specializing in the development and application of geospatial technologies in the mapping, exploration, sustainable development and management of the Earth's resources and monitoring the environment. EarthSat can provide information services for basin, watershed and catchment mapping, agrometeorological, climate, and extreme event forecasting, groundwater exploration, reservoir recharge potential, land use impacts on reservoir efficiency, evapotranspiration modeling based on land cover/land use, irrigation management, coastal zone land use and land use changes, and littoral zone habitat and aquaculture mapping.
EarthSat’s scientists understand natural phenomena and processes, and are skilled in the cost effective use of remote sensing and spatial database analysis and visualization. EarthSat's experts have made substantial contributions to the advancement of image processing, information technology and GIS in the fields of forestry, land use, environmental analysis, mineral exploration and agriculture, and provide weather and agricultural information to more than 200,000 customers every day.
Visit the EarthSat Web site: http://www.earthsat.com/home.html
EnviroNet Management Systems
Founded in 1997, EnviroNet Management Systems provides customized, innovative support in the water and environment sectors to help drive more effective investment and value-driven project execution for clients. EnviroNet’s advisory services and supporting tools encompass three core areas.
In water infrastructure, EnviroNet specializes in the planning, feasibility, and design of water resources projects; environmental health and sanitation services; and fisheries and coastal zone management.
EnviroNet’s second area of expertise covers environmental management and process optimization. Services under this core area include industrial environmental management for manufacturing and mining; efficient design, cleaner production, by-product use, and water reuse/recycling; as well as environmental impact assessment, surveys, and management systems.
Finally, EnviroNet offers expertise in performance measurement, benchmarking, and reporting systems. To date, EnviroNet has provided such services for water utilities and water sector planning and investment; the design and feasibility of industrial and environmental infrastructure projects; and policy and sector reform.
With offices in Arlington, Virginia and Denver, Colorado, EnviroNet is known for developing nimble, needs-based approaches to multidisciplinary projects and building lasting relationships with clients. EnviroNet’s policy specialists, engineers, and scientists are leaders in their fields and work closely with clients at all levels, ranging from local small businesses and government units, to national governments and multinational corporations.
EnviroNet’s projects span the globe, including work in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Oceania, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Visit the EnviroNet's Web site: http://www.environetllc.com
Ocean and Coastal Consultants, Inc. (OCC)
Ocean and Coastal Consultants, Inc. (OCC) began in 1983 as a small coastal engineering consulting firm. Over the past 21 years, OCC has expanded its services, staff, qualifications, and capabilities to become a recognized industry leader. OCC maintains offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey, and consists of a diverse staff of professional engineers and coastal scientists, each with unique qualifications. Their theoretical expertise is fortified with years of practical experience to provide effective and economical solutions to a wide variety of coastal and waterfront problems.
OCC specializes in coastal zone management, dredged sediment management, contaminated sediments, and coastal ecosystem restoration. OCC specializes in low cost, innovative solutions with specific applications in developing countries. Through the use of innovative technology and sound engineering, OCC provides solutions to protect water resources and infrastructure, as well as restoring and remediating the polluted sites.
OCC's project managers use a variety of tools such as Geographic Information Systems that also help in the design of projects. OCC maintains a staff of coastal professionals that are experienced in all aspects of a project's design and construction. Services include: determination of wind and wave forces in the waterfront environment, engineering designs for beach nourishment, coastal structures for shoreline stabilization and erosion control, harbor facilities, and marinas. State-of-the-art computer and mathematical modeling enables OCC to model offshore and coastal wave environments, sediment transport, and shoreline changes.
Visit OCC's Web site: http://www.ocean-coastal.com
Hydroscience Consulting, LLC
Hydroscience Consulting specializes in the engineering, economic and regulatory aspects of water control projects. Typically their work maximizes the value of a water resource to a power generation system or optimizes its overall value to power generation, irrigation, water supply, flood control, navigation, environmental protection and recreation. Hydroscience Consulting staff have extensive experience in the water and energy sectors of more than 60 countries and are skilled in training counterpart staff to use customized tools to develop practical rules for river basin management and assisting in the drafting of complex multinational agreements for regional co-operation in the energy and water sectors.
Visit the Hydroscience Consulting Web site: http://www.hydroscience-consulting.com/
Princeton Energy Resources International, LLC (PERI)
Princeton Energy Resources International, LLC (PERI) is a leading engineering and technology consultancy that provides technical, engineering, analytical, and management services to government and private sector clients. Each of PERI’s staff has, on average, more than 25 years' experience in their field of expertise, including chemical, civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering; financial analysis; and policy formulation and development.
PERI’s Environmental Services Group offers a variety of services in water and wastewater management. PERI applies Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and ISO 14001 standards to help clients minimize water pollution, save money, and comply with environmental regulations. PERI provides training to industry and government sector clients and works with them to strengthen water/wastewater regulations and enforcement and develop policies that minimize the generation of wastewater and encourage water reuse and recycling.
Visit the Princeton Energy Resources International Web site: http://www.perihq.com/
South-East Consortium for International Development (SECID)
The South-East Consortium for International Development (SECID) is a not-for-profit organization established in 1977 by U.S. land and sea grant universities to provide research, training, and extension to developing countries. Its corporate mission is to assist less developed countries to improve their standards of living and economic potential through the implementation of sustainable development initiatives.
SECID has implemented 80 large projects for USAID in its 28-year history. Approximately 50% of SECID’s projects have been in Africa; 40% in Asia; with the balance going to other parts of the developing community. Examples of USAID projects implemented include the $20 million Community Based Natural Resource Management Project in Senegal and the $18 million Resource Conservation Utilization Project in Nepal. These projects concentrated on resource conversation and social change while concurrently strengthening institutional capacity.
Visit the South-East Consortium for International Development Web site: http://www.secid.org
STELLA Consulting
Founded in 1993, STELLA Consulting provides environment and development services for public and private sector clients worldwide, including government agencies, multi- and bilateral donors, private investors, and industries. STELLA helps its clients assess environment and development issues, formulate environmental protection and sustainable development policies and strategies, and design and implement relevant actions. The firm has an excellent reputation for preparing sound and innovative investment plans that fully recover costs and ensure the sustainability of environmental projects. It brings people and ideas together to develop sound environmental programs, and builds national and local capabilities to implement such programs.
Typical STELLA services include: economic and financial analyses, evaluation of environmental programs, audits and environmental assessments, feasibility studies, strategies and action plans, impact and risk assessments, institutional development and capacity-building, and training and communication. STELLA provides these services in water/wastewater management, solid and hazardous waste management, industrial pollution control, air pollution control, and municipal and regional development, with special emphasis on pollution prevention and sustainable development.
STELLA is currently assessing the costs and benefits of more than 500 water and environmental projects in 16 Mediterranean and Baltic countries, Romania, and China. STELLA has three office locations: Kensington, MD, USA, Brussels, and Paris.
Visit the STELLA Consulting Web site: http://www.stellaconsulting.com
Resource organizations
Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA)
The Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA) represents the interests of nearly 300 of the US's wastewater treatment agencies - environmental practitioners that serve the majority of the sewered population in the United States, and collectively treat and reclaim more than 18 billion gallons of wastewater each day. AMSA maintains a key role in the development of environmental legislation, and works closely with federal regulatory agencies in the implementation of environmental programs.
AMSA is a dynamic national organization, involved in all facets of water quality protection. Viewed as a key stakeholder in the legislative, regulatory and legal arenas, AMSA has built credible, collaborative relationships with members of Congress, Presidential administrations, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the nation's courts. Recent years have seen heightened involvement in a broadening array of environmental laws and regulations in the water quality arena, including watershed management, wet weather, infrastructure funding, security, emerging pollutants and non-point-source pollution control. AMSA works closely with its members and other stakeholder groups to ensure responsible pro-environment outcomes based on sound scientific and economic data.
Visit the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies Web site: http://www.amsa-cleanwater.org
Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA)
The Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) is an organization of the largest publicly owned drinking water systems in the United States. Collectively, member agencies serve 124 million Americans with clean, safe drinking water.
AMWA's primary objective is to be the unified and definitive voice for metropolitan water agencies on regulatory, legislative and security issues. To this end, the association works with Congress and federal agencies to ensure safe and cost-effective federal drinking water laws and regulations and to develop federal-local partnerships to protect water systems and consumers against acts of terrorism. AMWA is also committed to the collection and exchange of management, scientific and technical information to support competitive utility operations, effective utility leadership, safe and secure water supplies and effective public communication on drinking water quality.
Visit the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies Web site: http://www.amwa.net/
Gender and Water Alliance
The Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) is an independent network of more than 400 organizations and individuals in 56 countries around the world. More than 80 percent of the membership comes from countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It was created at the second World Water Forum in 2000 in order to promote the recognition and incorporation of gender mainstreaming as a key approach for integrated water resources management. The GWA believes that sustainable water and sanitation services requires as a first step the understanding of the different social relationships and roles of women and men, poor and rich communities, and minority and majority cultures that affect the different uses, management and control of water resources.
The GWA is governed by a nine-member steering committee representing different regions and areas of expertise in the water and gender sectors. The Secretariat of the GWA implements activities and is in regular contact with the membership and partners. GWA is an Associated Programme of the Global Water Partnership and maintains working agreements with key agencies in the sector such as the WSSCC, UNDP, Cap-net, CAWTAR and others. The GWA concentrates its efforts on information and knowledge development and sharing, training and capacity building, advisory support, advocacy and partnership development. The present phase of the Alliance is funded by the governments of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Visit the Gender and Water Alliance's Web site: http://www.genderandwateralliance.org/
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has gained a reputation as a world-class research organization in the field of water and land management. Headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, it is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
IWMI’s mission is to improve water and land resources management for food, livelihoods and nature. IWMI conducts a worldwide research and capacity-building program to improve water and land resources through better technologies, policies, institutions, and management. Scarce and polluted water supplies have their greatest impact on poor people, especially women and children. Improving the productivity of water can make a major contribution to reducing poverty and improving people’s lives. IWMI therefore explores ways to help alleviate poverty, protect and conserve the environment, maintain food security, and provide poor and disadvantaged people better access to water resources.
Since its inception, IWMI has developed a comprehensive understanding on the management of water in the agriculture sector through research in key areas such as water productivity in varying scales from field to basin, water allocation and distribution, groundwater management and conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water, environmental flows and wetland management, and wastewater irrigation. To support this research, IWMI maintains a strong skill base to conduct hydrologic assessments and to use GIS and remote sensing tools in water and land management research.
IWMI has extensive experience in the institutional reforms needed for the effective management of land and water resources and the processes required to establish effective Water Users Associations (WUA) and Farmer Organizations (FOs) for the transfer of irrigation management to improve system efficiency.
Visit the IWMI Web site: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org
International Water Resources Association (IWRA)
The International Water Resources Association (IWRA) has strived to improve water management worldwide through dialogue, education, and research for over 25 years. Since its formation in 1972 the organization has promoted the sustainable management of water resources around the globe. The belief that sustainability requires interdisciplinary action and international co-operation is a driving force behind the association, which seeks to improve water resource outcomes by improving collective understanding of the physical, biological, chemical, institutional, and socio-economic aspects of water.
IWRA is about networking the people, information, and organizations that are vitally concerned with the global sustainability of water resources. IWRA is one of nine founding members of the World Water Council and played a key role in its formation as an organization dedicated to global water policy. IWRA is committed to its members and their professional development and advancement, providing access to the latest in information, programs, and international experts.
In short, IWRA's goal is to build and strengthen partnerships and mechanisms to facilitate the sustainable use of water resources worldwide. IWRA recognizes that its efforts must actively transcend many types of boundaries. IWRA's unique role is to serve as a bridge in networking people, information, and organizations.
Visit the IWRA Web site: http://www.iwra.siu.edu
Water Environment Federation (WEF)
Founded in 1928, the Water Environment Federation® (WEF) is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization with over 36,000 members from varied disciplines who work toward the WEF vision of preservation and enhancement of the global water environment. The WEF network includes include engineers, scientists, lawyers, planners, economists, and finance professionals from 79 Member Associations in over 30 countries. WEF is widely known and respected internationally and has consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.
WEF and its members research and publish the latest information on water quality protection and related technology; provide technical expertise and training on issues including non-point-source pollution, hazardous waste, residuals management, and groundwater; sponsor conferences and other special events including WEFTEC® - North America’s largest annual water quality conference and exhibition; and review, testify, and comment on environmental regulations and legislation.
Visit the Water Environment Federation Web site: http://www.wef.org
