Anglian Water has contracted Mott MacDonald to provide surface and ground-water quality modelling to help improve drinking water quality. The modelling is part of Anglian's strategy to improve drinking water quality through catchment management, being implemented between now and 2015. Mott MacDonald's appointment follows on from a pilot study, which the consultancy undertook for Anglian Water. The project involves model- ling the behaviour of pesticides at 13 water treatment works that are supplied from surface water sources such as rivers and reservoirs. It also involves modelling concentrations of nitrates and pesticides at seven ground-water sources, which is water located beneath the ground surface in pore spaces and in fractures of soil and rocks. Mott will use the SWAT model for surface water catchments and the WAVE, Modflow and MT3D models for groundwater areas.
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