Community Day!
The importance of increasing awareness and engaging the community in water sensitivity cannot be overstated. And what better way to deliver water sensitive messages to young Australians than a community […]
Category Archives: environment
OMG! IMG shows promise in removing nutrients from groundwater
The Department of Water (DoW) are constantly on the look out for effective ways to reduce nutrient inputs into groundwater systems and waterways. Using funding provided by the State Government’s Swan […]
Local government gives baby birds a home!
Just because local government has to cut down some of its native trees, doesn’t mean that a good outcome can’t come as a result! This week’s blog article is a […]
Living in a vertical forest
Living in a vertical forest might be the residential way of the future! A major challenge for city planners is how to provide both the urban densification required for a growing […]
Think before you drink: The environmental cost of bottled water
The crew at InSinkErator have put together a great infographic recently regarding the consequence of buying and drinking bottled water! Firstly (and selfishly), you can save a whole bunch of […]
Bird is the Word: success at Eric Singleton Bird Sanctuary
Eric Singleton would definitely have agreed with Peter Griffin insofar as the bird being the word! Eric was a local bird enthusiast, conservationist, and long time resident of Bayswater, who successfully had the urban wetland […]
Home grown WSUD!
A lot of the focus of Essential Environmental projects are on encouraging and implementing Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) practices at subdivision, local structure plan and regional scales. i.e. the […]
