The Social Distance Network
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 […]
Category Archives: technology
A Smart show(off) – Wharf St Smart Park revealed!
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 […]
ARR1987 is dead! Long Live ARR2016!
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 […]
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 […]
UNDO-ing stormwater in WA!
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 […]
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 […]
Satellites & drones – the new way of understanding our water resources (they’re not just killer robots!)
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 […]
Introducing SammEE
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 […]
We love LiDAR!
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 […]
