Water Stewardship as a Key to Climate Action

Beatrice is a geotechnical geologist at HPC in Italy with a bachelor degree in environmental sciences specialized in territorial, environmental and resource management. She is an accredited Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) consultant, trainer, and auditor with a strong hydrogeological background. Her passion for resource management has come from her 18-years life experience in Africa, where the management of resources such as water and forests is in need of an imminent sustainability commitment. Beatrice has been managing, coordinating, and implementing source vulnerability assessments (SVAs) and water stewardship projects throughout Europe, Asia and Africa for multi-national brands. In her career, Beatrice has specialized in the water resource management field, having addressed a variety of different projects related to the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Certification, SVAs, water risk assessments, environmental investigation and characterization plans, resilient and responsive plans for water risk mitigation as well as social projects related to WASH and stakeholder engagement. Beatrice is also on the Leadership Team for Inogen Alliance and leads the global Water Working Group.

Annika is a Senior Consultant with over 9 years of professional experience. She has a B.S. in Geology and a M.S. in aqueous geochemistry. Annika is also an accredited Specialist with the Alliance for Water Stewardship. She has extensive experience in environmental assessments and management aspects in Australia and the United States with experience in soil, soil vapour, and groundwater assessments, contaminated land assessments, auditing of closed landfill sites, management and remediation, environmental audits and research. In addition to her remediation experience, Annika is also the client manager for a multinational beverage manufacturer. She conducts sustainability assessments and source vulnerability assessments for water source sites and bottling plants across Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Chris is an Environmental Discipline Manager and Environmental Scientist at Tonkin + Taylor with over a decade of experience in groundwater and contaminated land investigations. Since 2013, he has provided technical input and project management for site investigations, hydrogeological assessments, and resource consent processes.

In recent years, Chris has specialised in source water risk assessments, supporting public water suppliers and councils to meet regulatory requirements and better understand potential contamination risks within groundwater catchments. His work contributes to safeguarding drinking water supplies and improving catchment-scale water stewardship, particularly in response to sector-wide shifts following the Havelock North contamination event. Chris also undertakes effects assessments for groundwater take consents, evaluating potential impacts on aquifer sustainability, saltwater intrusion, and connected surface water bodies. His field expertise spans bore installation oversight, pump test design and analysis, and groundwater sampling under robust QA/QC procedures.

Natalya is a sustainability consultant with over 7 years of professional experience. She specializes in corporate water strategy, global water and climate risk assessment, watershed assessment, wastewater reuse and recycling, corporate ESG strategy, and environmental compliance. She earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering with a minor in Global Environmental Sustainability, and a M.S. in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Water Resources from Colorado State University. Natalya obtained her Professional Engineering license in 2021. She is also an accredited Specialist with the Alliance for Water Stewardship. Natalya leads Antea Group’s Climate Risk & Water Stewardship service line.