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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, cities must reduce their carbon footprint by reducing their water usage and conserving water with safe and secure water systems like those throughout Scandinavia.

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

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

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

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 safely 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 assist with process design, water and wastewater treatment technology, equipment specification, tendering, planning, construction management, start-up, and commissioning. We provide a cost-effective and sustainable water and wastewater treatment methods while maintaining the highest quality.

In many cities worldwide, water supply networks are aged, incorrectly designed, and function poorly. We assist city authorities in reaching a 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 traffic disturbance and designing water networks based on district metering area (DMA) and SCADA.

In many cities, the drainage and sewage systems are 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 the design of pipelines, river and sea outfalls, basins, canals, drains, pumping stations, and overflows.

We consider waste an essential resource on its own, in that it can be recycled and reused, 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 the client's needs and requirements 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 essential source of income for the most vulnerable in the informal sector. 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. We aim to offer a resilient waste management system for businesses, people, and the environment. 

For work within the waste management sector, we offer a highly specialized approach toward the client's needs. We allow ourselves to be flexible to the needs of adjustments following changing conditions during the project.

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

We focus on technically achievable, environmentally sustainable, and financially feasible solutions– specifically context-specific solutions – 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 by analyzing all layers (economic, social, and ecological opportunities of 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 become 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 while maintaining professional distance when required.

With our ongoing focus on innovation, NIW assists city authorities, public departments, and urban developers in tackling climate change. We also help make cities and urban areas safer from increased flooding and extreme weather risks. 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 environmental impact. Most megacities were developed without considering the most critical element of nature – water – and its effects on life and economic activities. We have learned that in infrastructure design, we must consider water as a ‘friend’ and not a ‘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 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 while improving environmental quality such as air, water, and biodiversity. Through Blue Green Infrastructure, we combine hydrological and biological water treatment drains into systems so that green features overlap with blue elements.

Nature-based Solutions: Nature-Based Solutions are “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 integral to the overall design of policies and measures or actions needed to address a specific challenge. At NIW, we base our strategies on the foundations of other success stories worldwide.

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

We help our customers use GIS in planning, case processing, operation and maintenance, and communication in citizen-oriented solutions. We have in-depth knowledge of GIS solutions and technology on the market and assist with developing and integrating solutions in your business. We help our customers set the direction of their digitization efforts to create 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 utilized, and we are proponents of how GIS can transform daily work. We are at the forefront of using digital platforms for stakeholder engagement and to inform decision-making. We use StoryMap as a communication and stakeholder engagement tool, showing 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.