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Nordic International Water is rooted in the Scandinavian traditions of having an efficient, sustainable, and scalable social infrastructure. As water availability faces immediate risks, it is essential that cities reduce their carbon footprint by reducing their water usage and conserving water with safe and secure water systems such as those throughout Scandinavia.

Our combination of technical know-how, state-of-the-art technologies, and robust supplies assist in supporting water environments across the globe. At NIW, we help to ensure efficiency and resilience in the design and operations of water supply and wastewater management whilst maintaining the reliability of supply and ensuring the safety of cities, communities, and industries.

Many Asian and African megacities are relying on groundwater as their primary source for water supply. With the growing demand for clean water by their constantly growing population, they must build more wells and pump more, often with the consequence that the groundwater table is falling. We help our clients to shift from the unsustainable mining of groundwater resources to alternative water sources including treated surface water or by recharging the groundwater reservoir, therefore reducing the pressure on groundwater demand, and simultaneously tackling climate change.

Asian and African megacities are challenged by their rapid population growth to provide basic urban services including water and sanitation. To meet the growing demand for water, many cities are choosing to turn to surface water sources where substantial treatment is required before they can pump it to consumers. We help our client to implement megaprojects ensuring safe and adequate water for the millions.

With the growing population, the production of wastewater is also increasing. In our modern world, it is ever more pressing for authorities to manage their cities in a safe and environmentally friendly manner. We help our client to design and construct treatment plants that are cost effective, long lasting, and equipped with the most advanced technology to combat the increasing demand for wastewater treatment.

Our clients work with us because we provide assistance with process design, water and wastewater treatment technology, equipment specification, tendering, planning, construction management, start-up, and commissioning. We provide cost-effective and sustainable design of water and wastewater treatment systems whilst maintaining the highest quality

In many cities around the world, water supply networks are aged, incorrectly designed, and function poorly. We assist city authorities to reach 24/7 water supply with high quality drinking water and reduce non-revenue water loss. We have extensive experience in pipe laying and rehabilitation using trenchless technology with minimal disturbance to traffic as well as designing water networks based on district metering area (DMA) and SCADA.

In many cities the drainage and sewage systems are also outdated and need modernization to meet the growing demand. We assist our clients in such projects through detailed planning and providing our customers with a comprehensive overview of their drainage and sewage system. We plan cost-effective and long-lasting projects, including services for design of pipelines, river and sea outfalls, basins, canals, drains, pumping stations, and overflows.

We consider waste an important resource in its own, in that it can be re-cycled and re-used, but also that it can be used to generate energy either as bio-gas, refuse driven fuel (RDF) or waste to energy (WtE). When we design and implement waste management projects, our priorities are on needs and requirements of the client as well as environmental protection, on land and in the oceans. We also consider it necessary to consider the human and socio-economic aspects of the waste management sector. Currently in many parts of the developing world waste is an important source of income for the most vulnerable in the informal sector, and when technological solutions are introduced, we consider the alternatives for the many who could potentially lose their livelihoods, combining empirical knowledge with innovation to ensure sustainable futures for all. 

By staying connected, ideas flow smoothly without organizational barriers.We ensure that our solutions/options for waste management are technically doable, environmental sustainability, socially acceptable and financially viable. Our aim is to offer a resilient waste management system that is good for business, people and the environment. 

For working within the waste management sector, we offer a tailored approach highly specialized towards the needs of the client. We allow ourselves to be flexible to the needs of adjustments following changing conditions during the course of the project.

The risk of flooding from rivers and urban drainage systems in populated areas is rising along with the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather. At NIW, we aid our clients to identify and assess the risks related to flooding and thereby formulate solutions to protect their infrastructure. We deploy state art of technology and cooperate with clients at local, regional, and national levels. Our solutions are based on our experience around the world integrating site specific needs and the capacity of the client to implement the required adjustments or instillations.

We focus on solutions that are technically achievable, environmentally sustainable, and financially feasible –  and most specifically solutions which are context specific – meaning our customers always receive information and guidance tailored to their needs. We integrate urban contexts and scale to ensure people oriented and eco balanced results. We bring value based on the strategy of analyzing all layers (economic, social, and ecological opportunities of the urban complexity) to form sustainable visions. At NIW, we use our extensive practical experience to bring visions of future urban life to the level of contemporary implementation.

We want to create groundbreaking results in collaboration with our customers and are not afraid to set ambitious goals. We believe that together we can devise smart solutions so that water in cities can always be turned from being a burden to becoming a valuable resource and can help create attractive urban spaces.

At Nordiq Group, there is a close bond between our water, environment, and strategy departments. With our interdisciplinary expertise and cooperation, we create effective solutions that we believe are necessary to deliver sustainable frameworks. In parallel with our consulting projects, we participate in several research projects in China and Denmark. We typically provide a link between the academic environment and public sectors, enabling us to contribute with innovation from within projects whilst maintaining professional distance when required.

With our ongoing focus on innovation, NIW is assisting city authorities, public departments, and urban developers to tackle climate change. We also help make cities and urban areas safer from the risks of increased flooding and extreme weather. Our experts on climate adaptation include world-class engineering specialists, hydrologists, and landscape architects who bring nature-based solutions and blue-green-infrastructure which exponentiate our development away from grey infrastructure in favor of more nature-friendly solutions.

Rapid urbanization has put cities and their decision-makers at the mercy of challenges associated with balancing urban development and its impact on the environment. Most megacities were developed without considering the most important element of the nature – water – and its impact on life and economic activities. We have learnt that in infrastructure design we must consider water as ‘friend’ and not ‘foe’. To make a city liveable, we must shift from traditional grey infrastructure to Blue-Green Infrastructure and Nature-based Solutions.

Blue Green Infrastructure: Blue Green Infrastructure is defined as a ‘strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem service’. BGI options include parklands, swales, ponds, green roofs much more. All of which can reduce flood-risk and benefit public health whilst improving environmental quality such as air, water, and biodiversity quality. Through Blue Green Infrastructure we combine hydrological and biological water treatment drains into systems so that green features impeccably overlap with blue features.

Nature-based Solutions: Nature-Based Solutions are defined as “actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems, that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits”. Our approach is an integral part of the overall design of policies and measures, or actions needed to address a specific challenge. At NIW, we base our strategies from the foundations of other successful stories around the world.

Digitization has transformed the way communities and cities develop and operate; GIS is fundamental to our entire business but also bears exponential potential for the governments and businesses we operate with. We experience great value in connecting our digital expertise with the deep professionalism we have in water, environment, strategy, and urban development whenever we actively use digital platforms in our daily work.

We help our customers use GIS in tasks within planning, case processing, operation and maintenance, and not least communication in citizen-oriented solutions. We have in-depth knowledge of GIS solutions and technology on the market and provide assistance with the development and integration of solutions in your business. We help our customers set the direction of their digitization efforts so that it creates optimum value for them and their surroundings. NIW combines technical competencies with the knowledge of users and their needs, and puts ideas into perspective with our insight into trends in data and digitization.

We are driven by utilizing data innovatively and are constantly working to develop new digital systems that improve and streamline the planning, operation and maintenance, and management of our physical environment. We share our knowledge of GIS in courses for both individuals and organizations. We believe digital systems only provide value when they are utilised, and we proponents of how GIS can transform daily work. We are at the forefront in using digital platforms for stakeholder engagement and to inform decision making. We use StoryMap as a tool for communication and stakeholder engagement where we show the project location on the base map along with short descriptions, images, videos, and conceptual designs.  Our team of experienced GIS and digitization experts provides tailored advice on GIS-related issues and solutions.