They are both are indulgent & wasteful

The 2010 Hummer H2 on the left gets 3.8 kilometres per litre – and it indulgently wastes valuable natural resources.

The dam on the right loses 3% of it’s total volume every day, and will lose it’s total volume three times over every year due to the effect of evaporation on its naked water surface.

It’s wastes Australia’s most valuable resource.

Water.

How close to disaster do we need to be before we act?

Australia November 2019 | Australia’s worst ever drought

This is a preview of our future

WE HAVE BEEN WARNED

The average farm dam loses 15,000,000 litres of water a year to evaporation.

There are approximately 50,000 dams in Australia

That means we lose 750 billion litres of water every year

Temperatures are getting hotter

And we are receiving less rain

We are headed for big trouble

But there is a simple solution

This is the dam of the future

If all dams looked like this, we wouldn’t have had the water emergency we just suffered through

Beautiful water plants stop 90% of evaporation losses

And they give you cleaner water

Inspiring Sustainable Innovation 

We advise dam owners about organic evaporation solutions using our unique nature-based biomimicry strategies

We also advise the mining, oil, gas, power  industries & major infrastructure projects

PROVIDING STREAMLINED WATER PRACTISES & MANUFACTURED EVAPORATION MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS TO ENABLE EXCELLENCE IN CORPORATE WATER STEWARDSHIP

EVAPORATION MANAGEMENT

WE TOLD A POWER STATION TO ‘CHECK OUT OUR BALLS’

When one of Australia’s largest power stations wanted to stop evaporation losses from their two massive dams – EVAP.CO introduced them to shade balls

Shade balls are small plastic spheres floated on top of a reservoir. They reduce evaporation losses by up to 90% – and prevent sunlight from causing reactions among chemical compounds present in the water.

In 2014 and 2015, our US shade ball partner put 96 million shade balls onto Los Angeles’ largest reservoir. The balls saved 1.7 million cubic metres of water from evaporating during their deployment from August 2015 to March 2017.

96,000,000

Shade balls deployed

1.7 billion

Litres of water saved

$34.5 million

Cost

Our dam is drop dead gorgeous. He’s good. He’s very very good

Troy Roberts | The Permaculture Co | Herons Creek

Thank you so much!

Melanie Coles | The Seed To Soul Permaculture Co | Rainbow Flat

EVAPORATION MANAGEMENT

BHP COPPER MINE CHILE

When BHP wanted to more accurately record the evaporation losses from their Chile tailings dam, we talked to them about all the new alternatives

CORPORATE CONSULTING

Water is important to BHP

They were looking for technological solutions to monitor water losses in their Chile tailings dam more frequently and accurately, in order to improve the accuracy of the water balance.

Currrent water loss information is taken from satellite image
analysis and bathymetry, but these measurements do not allow for timely operational decisions because the data is obtained infrequently.

BHP’s challenge was to suggest a better way to measure evaporation – because when we did that, we could better quantify the real impact of the of water losses – and generate a baseline for management to make better decisions.

This solution could then be applied to any tailings dam around the world.

That’s a huge innovation for the global mining industry

What are people saying?

Thank you for the wonderful job you did with our dam.
I love how it fits into the landscape!

Brenda | Crescent Head | NSW

Artist! You are really good at what you do. So thanks again

Scott Wilson | Seedpod Permaculture | Johns River

Many thanks for doing a great job. Really appreciate what you have done

Michael Parry | Kendall | NSW

You did an amazing job of redesigning our dam!

Jim Blanchard | Crescent Head | NSW

I am very happy with my beautiful dam. You are a perfectionist

Sue Coren | Crescent Head | NSW

I love my dam!

Pam Wehlow | Port Macquarie  | NSW

DO YOU SUFFER FROM BAD COMPACTION?

Do you have a dam that refuses to hold water – even though the person who built it rolled and compacted the wall for days?

Your problem might be ‘pancake’ compaction – or what is technically known as horizontal linear compaction.

It’s a compaction technique that should never be used

 

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