RPA was commissioned by the Coal Authority (UK) to prepare benefit assessments for six potential minewater treatment schemes in Wales (four) and Scotland (two).

This project for the Environment Agency investigated how the use of a reverse auction can reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture in the South East Region to address specific problems within an overall catchment approach.

Study for the European Commission (DG Enterprise) to examine the feasibility of applying a certification scheme for all recycling facilities which receive EU waste, especially for waste exported to facilities outside the OECD.

Under a Framework Contract with Ricardo-AEA, RPA assisted with the socio-economic aspects of an Impact Assessment study for sustainable product measures with particular reference to refrigeration and freezing equipment, transformers, sound and imaging equipment.

This study was led by MWH (US) for the US Water Research Foundation to review use of water footprinting and the value of water.

RPA developed a resource economics-based framework for non-economists to value the benefits of groundwater.