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Lambda Consult has been involved in groundwater exploration, exploitation, remediation and management since the beginning of the 1980s, the same period when the environment at large became a serious issue on the political agendas.

Regards the clean-up of contaminated soil and groundwater, a lot has been accomplished during these past three decades, but on a worldwide scale it is just the proverbial drop in the ocean.

Groundwater, although accounting for only about 0.9 % of the total volume of water on this earth, is still a major source of our need for drinking and irrigation water. However its availability and quality have been declining ever since.

Reason for us to focus our special interest on the following areas:

• Seawater intrusion as a result of over pumping of groundwater in the world's coastal areas, where the majority of the peoples is living.
• Salinization of agricultural lands in areas with surface waters for irrigation with high content of total dissolved solids (TDS), with high evaporation rates and low rainfall numbers.
• Leaching of acid solutions and heavy metals from mine tailings into the groundwater, as well as the use of cyanide and mercury for gold mining which contributes significantly to a worsening quality of the groundwater and the environment at large.

It is never too late to change something for the better. Lambda Consult believes that many of the existing problems can be lessened if not solved by the deployment of electrokinetic techniques developed by us for practical applications during the past decades. We are furthermore of the opinion that at least a large part of the billions of dollars and Euros spent on CO₂ reduction should be made available to tackle the problems outlined above.

Reinout Lageman, Director and Principal Expert