Sustainable and robust water treatment solutions are an essential service for communities. They support health and wellbeing with a reliable source of wholesome water.
GHD brings the skills and practical experience to meet our clients' water treatment needs using chemical, biological, hydraulic, process, control, residuals handling, and plant layout design and engineering.
Our recent projects have included designs to address drought alleviation, cryptosporidium prevention, pesticide removal, and nitrate reduction. We also have extensive experience designing all chemical dosing and disinfection systems. However large or complex the scheme, we have the solution having delivered schemes on plants ranging from 0.1 MLD capacity to over 2500 MLD.
We design water treatment process solutions across a range of systems. These include sedimentation, dissolved air flotation, rapid gravity and pressure filters, membrane systems, ozone and biological filtration, and desalination using reverse osmosis or electrodialysis reversal.
GHD supports clients from planning and strategy through to project-based design and engineering. We inform our clients' investment decisions through treatment facilities planning and options assessments, concept design, permitting and regulatory assistance, treatability studies, and pilot plant work.
We act as the owner's engineer, manage construction and commission, and develop operation and maintenance manuals. Our technical specialists support clients across a range of through SCADA design and implementation and residuals processing design. We model catchment and distribution water quality to identify and target wider improvement programmes at the best benefits for their customers.
Our engineers work shoulder to shoulder with clients, providing strategic advice for water treatment and using our global knowledge as a desalination expert.