Artelia adopts a comprehensive approach to optimising water distribution in towns and cities, encompassing quality, health and safety, networks, leak management, efficiency and tariff structure, drawing on years of experience of pressure pipes (unsteady flow conditions, water hammer), control systems, remote management and fluid network modelling. Artelia also advises its clients impartially on the organisation of their PPP or public utility outsourcing projects and on network asset management. Artelia is designing and supervising the interconnection of drinking water systems in the Brie area to the east of Paris. Artelia is studying the feasibility of a new drinking water supply system for the cities of Lilongwe and Blantyre (Malawi). In Vietnam, Artelia is assisting water companies in towns in the Mekong delta.