Approach

Water&Finance is a german company with an European approach, located in Berlin. It was founded as a GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam spin-off. Water&Finance offers services at the interface of Water and Economics. Close cooperation with research institutes guarantees effective knowledge dissemination from researchers to practitioners.

The Water&Finance core competence is micro scale risk analysis. Benefit cost analysis as well as safety analysis for flood protection schemes and water related projects, and economic analysis for the EU water framework directive build on this core competence.

Customers are public authorities, the insurance industry and civil engineers. Water&Finance offers project management for integrated research projects as a future-oriented service assuring the lasting closeness to scientific research.

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Public authorities as decision makers for flood protection schemes and water related projects in general rely on design by civil engineers. The civil engineer's profit depends upon the size of a contract. Therefore civil engineers have a bias towards oversized projects. Water&Finance uses benefit cost analysis for project appraisal and brings out project alternatives. Civil engineers act as partners in project and alternatives development. Appraisal is remunerated independent from the final design alternative. Therefore Water&Finance is a neutral evaluater and guarantees objective appraisal.

Water&Finance in Water Economics