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: WSUD
Water Sensitive Urban Design
Happy new year from Urbaqua: new focus, new projects & new staff
Welcome to 2017 everyone! We hope you have all recovered from the food comas, hangovers, and sunshine that is the celebration of Christmas, New Year’s and any other holidays you […]
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 […]
#stormwater16
Essential Environmental partner and all round expert hydrologist Helen Brookes will be presenting at Stormwater Australia‘s 4th National Conference: STORMWATER 2016, to be held between 29th August – 2nd September […]
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 […]
