Sustainable Solutions for Our People, Our Projects, and Our Planet

Tetra Tech helps our clients address water, environment, and energy needs through programs that minimize impacts on the environment while providing effective, efficient solutions to challenges across the markets we serve. The people at Tetra Tech also incorporate sustainability into our internal practices and processes. On a daily basis and on a global scale, our work plays a direct role in helping to achieve the balance that will allow future generations to access the necessary resources to meet all of their needs.

Learn more at tetratech.com/sustainability and tetratech.com/social-responsibility.

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South Africa: A New Model for Transformational USAID/Water Office Support?
Jeremy Gorelick, senior infrastructure finance advisor for the Tetra Tech-implemented U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) project, discusses the reality of decreasing water levels in Cape Town, South Africa, and the opportunity WASH-FIN has to set an example for how to best prepare for water scarcity challenges in a rapidly changing world. All opinions expressed in this post are the author’s own.

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The Role of Land Rights Documentation in Promoting Sustainable Land Use Practices
Tetra Tech’s Dr. Matt Sommerville, senior associate with Tetra Tech International Development Services, participated in a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) LandLinks expert interview that highlights the innovative approaches used for customary land documentation in Zambia and ways the Tenure and Global Climate Change (TGCC) project institutionalized land reform at the local, regional, and national levels. All opinions expressed in this post are the author’s own.

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The Role of Social Capital in Resilience for Displaced People in Urban Areas
Simon Griffiths, the evaluation and research practice lead for the international development practice of Coffey, A Tetra Tech Company (Tetra Tech), reflects on Tetra Tech’s emerging approach to measuring urban resilience in humanitarian and urban settings. Focusing on Somalia, he looks at the importance of understanding and measuring social capital in building resilience among people who have migrated to urban areas due to drought and within the communities that host them in the short and long term. All opinions expressed in this post are the author’s own.

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Leveraging Partnerships for Water Security: Reducing Non-revenue Water in Uganda
Urban areas in many parts of Africa face the challenges of competition for water resources, inadequate infrastructure, droughts and water shortages, and non-revenue water loss—water that has been produced and is "lost" before it reaches the customer. In this post, Tetra Tech’s Leif Kindberg and Dr. Scott McCormick discuss how reducing the amount of water lost before it reaches the customer is integral to water security and the resiliency of urban water and sanitation services. All opinions expressed in this post are the authors’ own.

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Tetra Tech's 2017 Sustainability Report Card: Advancing Sustainability Through Science and Innovation
Tetra Tech’s sustainability metrics are used to report, evaluate, and track our performance. By evaluating our contributions to sustainability, we have the opportunity to improve management, make our operations more efficient, and provide better long-term solutions for our clients—solutions that address critical global issues, environmental challenges, and the values important to our stakeholders.

Environment

Transforming an Oilfield Waste Land Into a Boreal Forest
Consulting Engineers of Alberta (CEA) presented Tetra Tech (EBA) with an Environmental Award of Merit at the CEA Showcase Awards Gala, an event attended by more than 500 industry leaders in February 2017. The Showcase Awards recognize excellence in consulting engineering in Alberta and throughout the world. Tetra Tech received the Environmental Award of Merit for its work with Newalta Corporation to design a closure approach for a former oilfield waste land treatment facility south of Drayton Valley, Alberta.

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Designing Sustainable Water Supply Systems in Africa
Tetra Tech is bringing clean water and effective delivery systems to Liberia to address water sector challenges.

Piped drinking water has not flowed in most of Liberia's secondary cities for a quarter century. Shortly after the Liberia civil conflict began in 1989, these systems were destroyed or fell into disrepair, leaving urban residents dependent on either unreliable or contaminated water sources like shallow wells and surface waters. As a result of the war, local capacity in water supply engineering, operations, maintenance, and management became limited or non-existent. Tetra Tech is implementing the Liberia Municipal Water Project (LMWP I & II), which is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

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9 Tips to Better Market Yourself as an International Development Professional
In her article, Siobhan focuses on ways that job seekers in the international development industry can better market themselves and their experience to stand out in a very competitive job market. She provides tips to improving resumes and online presence, leveraging an individual’s unique selling points, and conducting a more proactive job search. Siobhan also discusses best practices for interviews.

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Cashew Trees Abuzz in the Diamond Mining Areas of Côte d’Ivoire
In a recent post, Terah discusses how the PRADD II Project began a beekeeping program on cashew plantations within diamond mining communities to increase yields and diversify their livelihoods away from dependence on diamonds.

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Engaging the Private Sector for Development Results in Indonesia
Last month, I had the great pleasure to meet Bonaria Siahaan who heads the Millennium Challenge Account-Indonesia, the locally led and staffed entity implementing the MCC’s Indonesia Compact in the country’s bustling capital Jakarta. From procurement modernization to maternal and child nutrition to energy efficiency, Bonaria and her team are working on innovative projectsmaking a real difference in a country where tens of millions of people are still struggling to rise out of poverty.
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