Solving water resources management challenges worldwide for over 20 years
Water is the most vital resource for life, for health, and for sustainable businesses and economies.
Water is the most vital resource for life, for health, and for sustainable businesses and economies.
Hydrosphere Consulting seeks to improve the knowledge management of water resources globally. We do this through interdisciplinary research into all aspects of atmospheric, surface and subsurface water. We undertake specialty projects for public agencies and private companies in an effort to provide solutions to water problems throughout the world. In addition to this, we also offer education and training courses designed to disseminate knowledge that evolves from the projects we undertake.
Since our establishment in 2002, Hydrosphere Consulting has carried out projects in more than 50 countries worldwide. Our primary areas of service are centered on water, wastewater and water resources planning, assessment, modeling and design. Our problem-solving focus approaches water as an environmental asset, a regenerative resource, a public good and a key societal commodity.
Hydrosphere Consulting draws expertise from all over the world to being our clients the best skillset tailored to their project needs. Our team consists of water scientists, engineer and educators who have years of experience in their respective fields. We use our expertise to drive change and promote sustainable water management practices.
Hydrosphere Consulting is working with the World Bank in supporting national governments towards the achievement of their development goals in the context of climate variability and change. In this context, the Climate Change and Development Reports (CCDR) document projected climate impacts across critical development sectors of the national economy (i.e. water, agriculture, infrastructure, energy), and analyze binding constraints to development as well as new development opportunities arising from climate change.
Hydrosphere Consulting is working with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization in developing an integrated modeling tool that allows the exploration of different physical and socioeconomic planning scenarios throughout the Amazon River Basin. This project introduced and applied a nexus approach to link together the constituent water, energy and food (WEF) systems in the basin. A nexus approach implies that the water, energy and food sectors are analyzed simultaneously and quantifying their interconnections and feedbacks.
Hydrosphere Consulting worked with The Nature Conservancy and the Food and Agriculture Organization to synthesize the scientific and empirical evidence and implementation gaps in the application of nature-based solutions (NbS) in agricultural landscapes that contribute to reduce trade-offs between food production, climate change and conservation objectives. This study found that to date, the focus of NbS applications in food production has been predominantly for carbon sequestration, water quality, and disaster-risk management objectives while documented examples of NbS benefits in agricultural production are sparse.
Hydrosphere Consulting led a review of ecological, social, engineering, and integrative approaches to define and apply resilience thinking in watersheds. Knowledge gaps were identified through an assessment of this literature and compilation of a set of research questions through stakeholder engagement activities. A potential research agenda was derived describing key areas of inquiry such as watershed resilience variables and their interactions; leveraging watershed natural properties, processes, and dynamics to facilitate and enable resilience; analytical methods and tools including monitoring, modeling, metrics, and scenario planning, and their applications to watersheds at different spatial and temporal scales, and infusing resilience concepts as core values in watershed adaptive management.
Hydrosphere Consulting has worked on introducing satellite remote sensing (RS) methods for monitoring of water quality in support of measuring, understanding, and managing impacts in sensitive water bodies. The water bodies focus of this work are as follows: the Jaguari-Jacarei Reservoir in the Cantareira reservoir system (Sao Paolo, Brazil); the Ribeirao das Lajes Reservoir in the Guandu River systems (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); the Rio Grande Reservoir in the Medellin reservoir system (Medellin, Colombia); and the Thika Reservoir in the Nairobi reservoir system (Nairobi, Kenya). This study focused on the development and application of a RS data processing pipeline that detects phytoplankton abundance as a proxy for pollution by nutrients, as well as sediments, which are the major water quality issues identified across these sites.
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