With their New Zealand first water resource planning methodology, MWH and Watercare Services Ltd again proved a winning team at the INGENIUM Excellence Awards 2011. The Watercare Headroom and Outage Assessment for Water Supply Planning project took the award for the Projects of Investigation, Reporting, Systems or Process category announced at the INGENIUM Conference in June. This is the third year running that MWH has won this category and the second with Watercare.

“We were delighted to win this award,” says MWH’s Project Manager Christine McCormack. “It rewards the hard work and challenges we’ve overcome. This approach can now be applied across the country to improve our water resources planning.”

In 2010 MWH and Watercare won this award category for Project Storm 2, the largest and most complex wastewater model ever completed in New Zealand, serving a population of over one million people. Prior to that, in a ‘blue-print’ for the management of New Zealand’s municipal water supplies, MWH, Hamilton City Council and Barrister Simon Berry took the award for achieving a 35-year resource consent and implementing a sophisticated suite of consent conditions and water demand management practices for Hamilton City.