WAPCOS employs advanced techniques of Aeromagnetic Surveys, Remote Sensing & Photo Interpretation and have acquired expertise in ground water resources appraisal both in investigations and mathematical modelling besides building up knowledge & experience for conjunctive use of surface & ground water, duly accounting for problems of salinity ingress and drainage on one hand and falling ground water table due to over exploitation of the resource on the other.
Minor irrigation schemes dependent on ground water reserves contribute to sustainable agriculture development and WAPCOS over the years has taken up several similar studies in India and abroad, covering all aspects of minor irrigation like selection of crops, crop water requirement, financial analysis, master plan studies using satellite imageries and prioritization for phased implementation, etc.

Floods create havoc and cause a lot of damage to life and property from year to year. River management aspects have acquired new dimensions due to increasing urbanisation along the rivers, encroachment of flood plains and human interference by developmental activities. The focus is on treating the river basin as a whole covering geomorphological aspects, damage frequency analysis, risk assessment, evaluation, risk coverage through insurance etc. with emphasis on flood forecasting and disaster management.
Rivers frequently damage land and property adjacent to their banks. Rivers in alluvial plains also frequently alter their courses. It is essential to stabilize the river channels along alignments to provide safe passage to floods, prevent outflanking of bridges, embankments, etc.

WAPCOS has a wide range of experience in dams and reservoir engineering particularly monsoon originated floods accentuation with perennial flows covering hill and plain topography.
A large number of concrete, masonry (gravity and arch) and earth-cum-rock fill dams have been designed by WAPCOS engineers and are now effectively operational in India and abroad. Safety of existing dams, particularly the old dams is receiving focussed attention worldwide considering ageing of dams, the standards and criterion required to be adopted under the state-of-art technology.

WAPCOS undertakes channelization, landscaping and abatement of pollution studies to focus on following issues:

• Channelization
• Landscaping
• Abatement of Pollution

WAPCOS provides natural resources management consulting services to help clients sustain their business enterprise in the face of increasing economic, environmental, natural resource and societal challenges.

Services Offered

• Land irrigability evaluation
• Design of cropping pattern
• Farm water management
• Crop yield studies
• Command area development
• Estimation of crop water requirement
• Horticulture development
• Crop diversification
• Monitoring and impact assessment of agriculture development projects

Watershed management programme is aimed to promote rural economy adopting participatory approach and group action through nurturing community based organization. The programme designed to promote groundwater recharge, soil and moisture conservation, afforetation and water harvesting for ecological balance, to giving impetus to agriculture and allied sectors. The specialized divisions of WAPCOS conducting consultancy assignment for preparation of DPRs, Baseline Survey Studies, mid and post Project Evaluation including economic analysis for watershed management programme. The activities such as documentation of learning, success story, videography, and training programme for stakeholders are organized on requirement basis.

Natural resource management refers to the management of natural resources such as land, water, soil, plants and animals, with a particular focus on how management affects the quality of life for both present and future generations. Natural resource management is congruent with the concept of sustainable development, a scientific principle that forms a basis for sustainable global land management and environmental governance to conserve and preserve natural resources.
WAPCOS provides natural resources management consulting services to help clients sustain their business enterprise in the face of increasing economic, environmental, natural resource and societal challenges.

Enhancing the capabilities of manpower is taken up in WAPCOS systematically to meet the future challenges. WAPCOS puts its executives through refresher/training courses in a number of disciplines under its MOU commitments.
Technology adopted in the planning, implementation and operation of Water Resources Projects, is in a continuous state of evolution, with due regard to the local conditions viz.
Technical input, clientele aspirations and market forces. In order to ensure that the technocrats involved as well as the beneficiaries are able to interact meaningfully to realise full benefits of the project, it is imperative that training and exchange of information, as well as of experiences, be arranged on a continuing basis. Apart from its inhouse faculty, the company has the benefit of being able to draw upon the services of specialists from its supporting organisations as well as research and development institutions, within the country.