Australian Partners

Water Futures Pty Ltd

Water Futures provides Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) consulting advice to the water and health sector.

Literature Reviews of the State-of-the-Science and State-of-Knowledge; Water Safety Plan (WSP); Sanitation Safety Plan (SSP); Food Safety Plan (FSP/HACCP/ISO 22000); Sanitary Survey; Sanitary Inspection; Catchment Management Planning; Environmental and Public Health Microbiology; Environmental Toxicology; Environmental Epidemiology; Workshop Facilitation; Project Management; Benchmarking and Auditing; Validation of Engineered and Nature-based Solutions (NbS); Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA); Legionella and Drinking Water Risk Management Plan (RMP); Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance (WES/WBS/WBE).

  • Water Safety Plan (WSP) guidance manual for water-related projects, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila.

 

  • Climate Resilient Water Safety Plans Guideline for World Health Organization (WHO) Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health (WASH), Geneva.

 

  • Quantitative Microbial and Chemical Risk Assessment (QMRA/QCRA) and Water Safety Plans (WSPs) for Arsenic Mitigation Options for UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) with Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

 

  • Mainstreaming Water Safety Plans training, training-of-trainers, and guidelines for the Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) of WHO and ADB, covering China (five centres), Nepal, Vietnam, Lao PDR, and Cambodia.

 

  • Multi-target Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance (WES) Prioritisation and Dissemination Program for WHO-WASH, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and European Commission (EC) Joint Research Council (JRC) Health and Emergency Response (HERA) in regional hubs, including Singapore (for the WPRO region) and Ethiopia, South Africa, and Rwanda (for the AFRO region).

 

  • WES guidance package for multiple targets, including specific target summaries for SARS-CoV-2, influenza A and B viruses, monkeypox virus, Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhoid and Paratyphoid; and poliovirus, for WHO-WASH, CDC, BMGF and HERA.

 

  • Health risk assessment and water quality mitigation prioritisation for Pakistani water supply systems for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and Australian Water Partnerships (AWP).

 

  • WES for SARS-CoV-2 for Fiji, Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao PDR and Thailand for DFAT-AWP.

 

  • QMRA and epidemiological analysis and recommendations in response to the fatal Sham Shui Po melioidosis Burkholderia pseudomallei outbreak for the Hong Kong (HK) Water Supplies Department (WSD).

 

  • Guidelines for Strengthening Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Emergency Preparedness and Response – Focus on the Conflict in Ukraine, for WHO-WASH.

 

  • Guide to Ship Sanitation for WHO-WASH.

 

  • Guide to Setting Standards and Regulations for Wastewater and Sludge Treatment for Low- and Middle-Income Countries, for WHO-WASH.

 

  • Health-related Water Sector Regulations (drinking water, recycled water, sanitation) for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).