Water | GWP


North Tarawa in Kiribati


CLIVE CARPENTER


l Clive Carpenter is an Equity Partner at GWP Consultants, an independent natural resources management consultancy, based in Oxford, UK. Clive is a chartered water resources specialist with 25 years of experience in international groundwater and surface water assessment, development, management and protection. He spends much of his time advising governments, companies and communities on climate related risk vulnerability and improving their resilience and adaptation capacity.


of groundwater and rainwater resources, water demand management and optimum water supply technology selection was undertaken. It was important to take into account the extreme remoteness of the country and limited local technical and financial resources available, as well as capacity building with the government and community stakeholders to increase protection of these water resources from pollution and misuse, to ensure


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the water resource could be safely exploited during these periods of extreme water scarcity. Intrinsic to the successful


identification and design of drought resilient water supplies was the engagement of government and community stakeholders. This enabled not only limitations on infrastructure operation and maintenance capacity to be recognised by both parties and agreements drawn up to address this, but also the importance


of competing uses of land on small islands to be understood. Community trade-offs were required between improving water resource protection and avoiding food security compromises. The resulting climate resilient water supply upgrades have now been constructed for some of the most vulnerable and drought-prone communities in the world. The other extreme of climate hazards also presents challenges requiring careful management of the natural environment and its impact upon infrastructure and populations. In Nigeria, devastating floods in 2007 caused widespread destruction to property, businesses and communities alike. GWP undertook detailed investigation of the causes of previously unheard of extreme flooding of international cement manufacturers’ quarries, and designed and supervised construction of robust flood defences to enable these businesses and the associated dependent local township economies to have increased resilience to this climate change- enhanced environmental risk.


Careful planning to reduce


the vulnerability of populations, infrastructure and natural resources to natural and manmade hazards, be it at the national, watershed, corporate or community level, is always preferable to clearing up damage and pollution, and bearing the financial losses after the event. GWP has recently been advising the Government of Trinidad and Tobago


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