Water
TS has an excellent operational capacity through its team of qualified local technical staff (hydro geologists, geophysicists, surveyor and site engineers) supported by full time international experts with long-term and consolidated working experience in Somalia.
Main activities carried out by TS in the water and environment sectors:
- Water research: satellite image interpretation, geological, hydro-geological and geophysical surveys; environment and social impact assessment
- Design of urban water supply system master plans, industrial plans (executive engineering designs of infrastructures) and financial plans;
- Works supervisions and site engineering, also for other agencies;
- Construction and improvement of urban and rural water supply systems (development of water resources, trunk lines, reservoirs and distribution systems);
- Design and introduce PPP structures in both urban and rural water sector;
- Design water users regulations and tariff structures;
- Design customised automation for accounting, billing and revenue collection system with innovative features (Open-ERP Web-Based system, Linux/Windows OS, bar and QR codes on smart phones for water and electricity meter reading, automatic communication to customers by SMS, e-Payment, fraud detection on average consumption, etc.);
- Train civil servants and water utilities operators in related subjects from water research to financial management;
- Design and implement erosion control structures; and spate irrigation schemes;
- GIS Land Mapping;
- Rehabilitation of primary and secondary irrigation canals and actions towards the financial and institutional sustainability of the intervention and conflict management within the area.
WATER
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Expertise
Equipment
Terre Solidali has the availability in Somalia of the following main equipment, instruments, machineries which can be used to carry out water studies:
Geophysical survey
Hydro-geological survey
Topographical survey
Geotechnical and Boreholes