Manda's strength is in understanding and developing technical solutions to comply with both water and environmental authorisations. She is familiar with the requirements and standards of Funding Agencies, which benefits clients when doing due diligences and obtaining authorisations. She has a solid track record in the development and implementation of policies and strategies for water allocations and water quality requirements. This includes water resource management on catchment level, monitoring and evaluation.
She is part of the implementation and policy development in water and related fields with a particular focus on water quality management and management of water quality in urban and informal areas, the development of waste management strategies, and institutional development in the water sector such as the establishment of Catchment Management Agency.
Her ability to contribute towards research projects is by participation in Steering Committees, e.g. Development of Classification System, 2010 Water Quality Standards etc., the development and implementation of water and environmental legislation and policy, surface water, water quality, and other specialist studies including monitoring protocols and plans. Together with annual water monitoring studies and small towns water reconciliation studies, she is part of the development and implementation of policy and strategy on pollution from urban areas.
