| OVERVIEW The ICT sector has much to offer in creating a cleaner, greener
world. It can help to cut industrial and vehicle emissions, provide
cleaner energy and water, and improve building and construction design
efficiencies. WA industry is now expected to adopt sustainable
development practices and technology is increasingly being relied on to
provide the practical solutions.
Local companies are rising to the challenge. The WA environment
management industry is modern and technically savvy, with strengths in
many important areas including: renewable energy, such as solar and
wind power technologies; water and waste water treatment; building and
construction; and land and mine remediation. Areas now starting to gain
some prominence are the possibilities becoming apparent in wave and
geothermal (or hot rock) energy technologies.
An area much in the news at present is carbon capture and storage
and WA companies are using their technologies to design, model and
monitor programs in this area. Local firms are also developing
technologies in biological water treatment systems and water
purification, computer-based mapping of underground water, solar water
pumping systems, odour control and chemical treatment. They have
expertise in air pollution control, noise and vibration control. ICT is
very much a part of the solution to the current challenges of climate
change and clean energy and opportunities in environmental technologies
are many.
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