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Wharf St smart park now online

16 September, 2020by urbaqua Leave a comment

The ribbon has officially been cut and the turtles have been released at the Wharf Street Basin Next Generation Community Park in Cannington, and the City of Canning‘s first smart […]

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Aboriginal heritage, biodiversity, community, environment, monitoring, Perth, Smart cities, technology, Water, water resource management, WSUD

The Social Distance Network

1 May, 2020by urbaqua Leave a comment

Introverts the world over have been celebrating this last month – their time to shine has finally come with the dawning of the Age of Social Distancing. However, it is […]

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community, technology, training

A Smart show(off) – Wharf St Smart Park revealed!

2 August, 2019by urbaqua Leave a comment

Happy Friday everyone! As summarised in our previous blog article, the City of Canning and Water Corporation, together with yours truly and others* are starting to make headway on the Wharf St […]

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community, Smart cities, technology, urbaqua projects, Water

ARR1987 is dead! Long Live ARR2016!

20 July, 2018by urbaqua Leave a comment

Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR) is a national guideline used to estimate flood risk  – critical for ensuring we have working drainage infrastructure that doesn’t result in flooding of roads […]

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flood, modelling, technology, training, water resource management

OMG! IMG shows promise in removing nutrients from groundwater

24 August, 2016by urbaqua Leave a comment

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 […]

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environment, planning, technology, water resource management, WSUD

UNDO-ing stormwater in WA!

3 August, 2016by urbaqua 1 Comment

There have been many exciting developments afoot recently in Western Australia’s Department of Water. The first of which was the official launch of the Department’s UNDO tool: Urban Nutrient Decision Outcomes. The […]

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planning, technology, Uncategorized, water resource management, WSUD

Living in a vertical forest

5 July, 2016by urbaqua 3 Comments

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 […]

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environment, technology

Satellites & drones – the new way of understanding our water resources (they’re not just killer robots!)

12 August, 2015by urbaqua Leave a comment

While NASA satellites can usually be found zooming around Earth’s atmosphere collecting information on the history of the stars or nearby asteroids, NASA’s GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellites have […]

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environment, technology, water resource management

Introducing SammEE

17 December, 2013by urbaqua 4 Comments

Welcome to 2014 everyone! In exciting news, Essential Environmental has been formally accepted to present our new piece of groundwater modelling software SAMMEE at the 2014 Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium in February, as well […]

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essential projects, technology, WSUD

We love LiDAR!

30 July, 2013by urbaqua Leave a comment

Over the last 12 months Essential Environmental has come to form a special bond with LiDAR (a combination of light + radar) – a remote sensing technology that uses laser […]

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