Consulting challenges and opportunities are emerging in the new millennium

Norm Huggins	Bill De Angelis	Nicholas Sonntag	Jim Bishop

The new millennium has already brought dramatic challenges to the consulting engineering profession. We invited leading figures to express their views and concerns about the profession. According to the Guardian Weekly, one of the most respected newspapers in the world, Fortune magazine estimates the global water and sanitation market is a (US) $405 billion a year industry, which is some 40 percent of the size of the oil sector, and one third larger than the pharmaceuticals market. Fortune states that "water is the best investment sector of the century." The true value of water, however, transcends all economic criteria in the prevention of disease and the maintenance of life itself on planet earth. Tom Davey

John Fisher	Robert Leech	Eric MacDonald	Don Pinchin