In some regions, management priorities are driven by pressing water shortages and allocation issues; in others, by environmental degradation or rising management costs. In any context, the intensity of stakeholder values about water and how we use it virtually guarantees a high level of public scrutiny.

Compass has worked in all aspects of water management from water allocation, watershed planning and drinking water source protection to liquid waste management and fish habitat protection. We have brought innovative decision making methods to multi-stakeholder groups involved in collaborative planning processes and to technical working groups charged with the application of science to management decisions. We have developed innovative economic and regulatory instruments and conducted detailed economic and environmental analysis of drinking water supply and demand options, waste treatement and reduction options, and flow management options on regulated rivers.

It is because of water, more than any other natural resource, that we've become committed to leveling the playing field. That is, to making sure that complex technical analysis is accessible and understandable to everyday people, and that they have an opportunity to participate in decisions they care about.