Significant Natural Resources Management projects have been undertaken by Sinclair Knight Merz in the International Development sector over many decades. These have generally been focussed on catchment management programs in developing countries, and often associated with a larger project deliverable. For example, the China Water Action Plan for the World Bank investigated the sources of water pollution and water allocation models, as well as the NRM issues of catchment protection and water quality protection. Projects have involved conceptual studies through to final feasibility engineering studies and included specialist technologies for catchment modelling of hydro-geological flows as well as surface flows, water quality and ecological simulation modelling, and complete integration with affiliated social action plans.

Our services include:

• Hydrology   
• Hydrogeology   
• Catchment Management   
• Dry Land Salinity   
• Forestry   
• Water re-use / water efficiency   
• Irrigation studies   
• Regional resources   
• Agri-business   
• Salinity Planning and Management

In 2007, the Coastal Wetlands Protection and Development Project (CWPDP) in Vietnam won the top prize in the Regeneration category at the annual British Expertise competition for best international projects. The CWPDP was a seven-year project implemented jointly by Landell Mills and SKM, and funded by the World Bank and Danida, to re-establish coastal wetland ecosystems and to sustainably protect their aquatic nurturing and coastal protection functions in Vietnam.

Sinclair Knight Merz has also undertaken Natural Resources Management projects in other developing countries, including the Indian sub-continent, the Pacific Islands and Indonesia.