GHD invests in Eco Detection to revolutionise stewardship of waterways around the world
Global professional services company GHD has taken part in capital raising by Eco Detection, a company that’s revolutionising water quality monitoring.
Freshwater is one of our most valuable resources but few waterways worldwide are being monitored for water quality in real time.
Eco Detection provides a “lab in a box” scientific platform that collects and transmits water quality and water chemistry data nearly real time without a need for laboratories or access to power. This enables water authorities or regulated industries to collect much more data than previously attainable, improving their capacity to make adaptive decisions in response to rapid environmental changes.
The problem of nutrient pollution is global and a major concern. As a leader in water and environmental markets globally, supporting new technologies while also developing new services and insights for our clients based on live water quality data is part of our purpose of creating lasting community benefit.
Continuous water quality monitoring could also be key to facilitating nutrient trading schemes which are emerging across the US and Australia as a market-based solution to manage nutrient discharges into specific waterways.
Eco Detection technology is already being used at a number of sites across Australia and New Zealand, including farms, sewage treatment plants, fish hatcheries and vineyards.
We are delighted to have GHD as a partner and strategic investor. GHD recognises that we have made a significant breakthrough in the monitoring and management of water, and that our technology can now provide lab-grade analysis, in real time and in the field.
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GHD es una empresa líder en servicios profesionales que opera en los mercados mundiales de agua, energía y recursos, medio ambiente, infraestructura y edificaciones, y transporte. Comprometidos con la visión de garantizar que el agua, la energía y las comunidades sean sostenibles para las futuras generaciones, GHD ofrece soluciones en consultoría, servicios digitales, ingeniería, arquitectura, medio ambiente y construcción a clientes del sector público y privado. Fundada en 1928 y propiedad de sus trabajadores, GHD cuenta con una red de más de 12.000 profesionales en más de 160 oficinas en cinco continentes.