Artelia protects water resources to optimise their use, designs multi-purpose dams (for hydropower, flood damping, water resources, irrigation, maintenance of low-flow levels, etc.), hydraulic storage structures and transfer systems, as well as treatment and desalination plants, provides wastewater treatment and stormwater management solutions, ensures the safety of sea and river water intakes and outfalls, draws up integrated river basin, estuary and coastal management strategies, assists and evaluates public water-sharing and use policies, anticipates floods, storms and surges while simulating their impacts and helping to introduce prevention strategies, and studies the safety of complex hydraulic structures in its laboratory or with specific computer programs.