Water and wastewater consulting
From sector reform to project delivery, CPCS helps clients develop resilient, investable, and sustainable water services
Your partner for confident decisions across the water sector
How do you fund the investments needed to improve water and wastewater services while maintaining affordability and resilience? How do you attract investment, improve utility performance, strengthen regulatory frameworks, or deliver complex infrastructure projects?
CPCS helps clients make confident decisions across the water sector, from policy and regulation to project delivery. We provide integrated advisory services covering utility performance improvement, economic regulation and tariffs, infrastructure finance, PPPs, project preparation, and transaction advisory.
Our core solutions
CPCS brings together expertise in water sector policy, regulation, utility performance, infrastructure finance, and project delivery. We help governments, utilities, regulators, investors, and development partners turn strategy into implementation, supporting projects and reforms from concept through long-term operation and value creation.
Sector reform, policy, and regulation
Water sectors require regulatory and institutional frameworks that balance affordability, environmental performance, infrastructure investment, and operational efficiency.
CPCS supports clients with:
- Sector reform programmes
- Regulatory and institutional frameworks
- Tariff methodologies and pricing structures
- Price controls and cost assessment
- Economic regulation
- Utility governance and accountability frameworks
- Regulatory monitoring and reporting systems
- Privatisation or delegation to the private sector
Our experience includes supporting regulators and utilities on cost assessment methodologies, cost of capital methodologies, efficiency incentives, regulatory frameworks, and price-control processes in the water and wastewater sectors.
Utility performance improvement
Utilities face growing requirements to deliver more investment while maintaining service quality and affordability.
CPCS assists utilities with:
- Business planning
- Utility restructuring
- Asset-management frameworks
- Investment prioritisation
- Financial sustainability assessments
- Performance monitoring systems
- Data and analytics tools
- Capacity building
We help organisations strengthen operational performance while preparing for future regulatory and investment challenges.
Project preparation and investment planning
Successful water infrastructure projects require robust technical, financial, and institutional foundations.
Our project-development support includes:
- Project identification and prioritisation
- Feasibility and pre-feasibility studies
- Business cases
- Investment and infrastructure planning
- Economic and financial appraisal
- Risk and bankability assessments
- Funding and financing strategies
- WASH programme development
- Promotion of projects to the private sector
CPCS has supported the development of investment pipelines, WASH programmes, water supply projects, and sanitation initiatives across multiple jurisdictions.
PPP and transaction advisory
CPCS supports clients throughout the lifecycle of public-private partnerships and infrastructure transactions.
Our services include:
- PPP feasibility and structuring
- Procurement strategy
- Market sounding
- Financial modelling
- Development of transaction documentation
- Bid evaluation
- Negotiation support
- Contract and commercial close
- Contract management and project monitoring
- Dispute resolution
Infrastructure finance and fiscal sustainability
Infrastructure investment requires financing solutions that are affordable, bankable, and sustainable.
CPCS supports clients through:
- Financial modelling
- Commercial due diligence
- Revenue and tariff assessment
- Fiscal-risk analysis
- Financing strategies
- Credit and risk assessments
- Investor engagement
We help clients develop financing approaches that support infrastructure delivery while managing long-term financial exposure.
How can we help?
Advising across the water ecosystem
Governments and
public authorities
Governments and
public authorities
Get policy advice, sector reform strategies, institutional frameworks, and investment roadmaps that support sustainable service delivery.
Utilities &
service providers
Utilities &
service providers
Get business planning, asset management, performance improvement, tariff analysis, investment planning, and decision-support tools.
Regulators &
sector institutions
Regulators &
sector institutions
Get tariff methodologies, price controls, cost assessment models, efficiency incentives, regulatory monitoring systems, and sector governance arrangements.
Project screening
& preparation
Project screening
& preparation
Get feasibility studies, commercial and financial due diligence, project preparation, transaction advisory support, PPP structuring, and bankability assessments.
Project procurement
and implementation
Project procurement
and implementation
Draft project documents (PPP, concessions, affermage, Water Purchase Agreement (WPA), Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EP, Operations and Maintenance (O&M), etc.), prepare or review tender documents, negotiate contractual documentation until closing, assist with project management and monitoring.
Comprehensive understanding of all segments of the water sector
Our experience spans:
- Water regulation
- Water management and water sharing agreements (including with hydroelectric assets)
- Water production
- Water pumping
- desalination projects
- water-supply concessions
- Water conveyance projects
- Water storage projects
- Water distribution and sale
- Water sanitation and treatment (including water reuse projects)
- Non-revenue water reduction programs
- Utility modernization programs
- Irrigation projects
- Negotiation of water treaties and conventions
- Cross-border water infrastructure projects
- Capacity building and training on the sector
Projects
Global experience
Our experts have worked with utilities in mature markets, including the European Union, and on pilot projects in emerging markets across Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East.
Need help with a water-sector challenge?
- Developing a new tariff or regulatory framework?
- Preparing for a price review?
- Strengthening utility performance?
- Structuring a PPP or concession?
- Assessing the bankability of a major investment?
- Developing a water or sanitation investment programme?
- Designing a sector reform roadmap?
- Capacity building and training on the sector?
Frequently asked questions
What is water and wastewater consulting?
Water and wastewater consulting experts at CPCS help clients navigate complex challenges related to infrastructure investment, utility performance, economic regulation, project development, and long-term sector sustainability.
What types of clients does CPCS advise in the water and wastewater sectors?
- Governments
- Public authorities
- Water and wastewater utilities
- Regulators
- Development institutions
- Investors
What makes CPCS different from other water and wastewater consulting firms?
CPCS goes beyond engineering solutions. We combine strategic, regulatory, financial, and delivery expertise to help clients solve the complex questions that determine whether water and wastewater projects succeed in the real world.
How can CPCS help utilities improve performance?
We support utilities with business planning, asset management, investment prioritization, financial sustainability assessments, performance monitoring systems, data analytics, and organizational transformation initiatives. We help utilities deliver better outcomes while balancing affordability, reliability, and regulatory requirements.
Can CPCS help structure public-private partnerships (PPPs)?
Yes. CPCS provides PPP and transaction advisory services, including project structuring, market sounding, procurement support, contract development, and investor engagement.
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