Water and sanitation

Water and sanitation

Photo: L.Kajubi, AWE.

AWE is thoroughly familiar with all the national standards and permit requirements to achieve the goals of good water quality in Uganda’s water resources and total elimination of pollution discharges into waters. Our engineers and associates utilize extensive experience to address water quality issues for clients in Uganda.

AWE’s water-related consulting services include:

• Water Treatment systems design
• Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans
• Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plans
• Laboratory analytical services for water analysis & characterization
• Surface Water Sampling
• Water treatment construction administration & supervision
• Water supply for low-income communities (including gravity flow schemes springs, boreholes, shallow wells, rainwater harvesting systems)
• Community hygiene and on-site sanitation
• Supply of portable and small-scale water treatment units & equipment

Water resources management

Drawing on expertise in civil engineering, soil & water engineering, hydraulics, hydrogeology, natural resources management, agriculture and agricultural engineering, AWE can successfully provide clients with skills in the following water resources management areas;

• Storm water management
• Flood mitigation
• Irrigation systems design and installation
• Wetlands and integrated catchment management

Surface & groundwater contamination

Accidental or undetected releases of chemical constituents into the subsurface can create long-term adverse effects on soils. Without intervention, these releases can create serious impact for those who utilize the groundwater resources, and those responsible for the contamination.

Utilizing risk assessments, risk-based corrective action analysis, and natural bio-remediation technologies, AWE can minimize investigative and corrective costs by identifying site-specific allowable risk levels. Utilizing these methodologies, AWE can develop reasonable and timely clean-up objectives for a client. In this field, AWE’s services include:

• Field Inspections
• Risk Assessment
• Risk-Based Corrective Action Analysis
• Contaminant Plume Characterization/Delineation
• Soils and Groundwater Characterization/Assessment
• Groundwater/Contaminant Plume Modeling
• Corrective Action Plan Development
• Remediation through Natural Bio-attenuation (e.g air sparging)
• Design, construction administration and operation of clean up (remediation) systems such as air sparging for petroleum oil and other chemical pollutants in water
  

RELATED LINKS:

 1. Wastewater
 2. Air pollution
 3. Solid and hazardous waste
 4. Water and sanitation
 5. Site remediation
 6. EIA and environmental auditing
 7. Cleaner production
 8. Noise pollution
 9. Occupational health and safety
10. Monitoring
11. Pollution control equipment