Water Management
Smart water systems designed to provide additional water resources, storage, reduce flooding, improve land and business performance, and support long-term environmental resilience.


What This Service Does
We design and implement water management systems that keep your land healthy, reduce flood risk, and optimise how water moves through your environment.
Our solutions include:
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Water harvesting and storage
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Energy generation
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Monitoring and early warning systems
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Controlled drainage
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Stormwater detention and flow optimization
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Flood prevention and water management barriers
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Hydration systems for land stability
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Seemless integration with buildings & other infrastructure
Whether you are protecting a home, a community site, farmland, or critical infrastructure, we create water systems tailored to your land’s unique behaviour.
Systems in Action
Raising Flood Platform System
See how elevated flood platforms respond automatically to rising water levels.
Self-Raising Flood Barrier
An automatic flood barrier system designed to protect buildings during extreme water events.

Water is one of the biggest environmental challenges in New Zealand
and the Pacific
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Heavier rainfall
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More frequent flooding
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Soil saturation
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Moisture intrusion in buildings
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Over extraction of groundwater
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Blocked or outdated drainage
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Drought
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Migration of talent abroad
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Ageing population
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Pollution and ageing pipes
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Rising seas
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Declining tax base
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Property Value
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Land productivity.
Poor water management leads to
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Structural damage
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Population health risks
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Land instability
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Property loss
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Failing community infrastructure
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Displacement
Opportunities
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Designed catchments for future use
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Resilient design - drought and flood
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Hybrid use for better outcomes energy, water and built environment working in unison
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Increase GDP
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Maximise skill base
Why It Matters
HOW SAFE IS YOUR DRINKING WATER?
CLIMATE CHANGE
Increasing global temperatures, led to frequent droughts & increases in the rate of evaporation from the existing sources of drinking water.
DISTRIBUTION
In many places water infrastructure is struggling with a legacy of underinvestment. It's often outdated, rusted and filled with dangerous pollutants.
POLLUTION
Having a tremendous impact on our precious water ecosystems, microbiological and chemical contaminants are threatening water sources more than ever.
What Makes Our Solutions Different
ECS creates climate adaptive water systems.
Our advantages include
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Solutions built for high rainfall and flood risk regions
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Systems designed around existing infrastructure
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Ability to integrate with modular buildings and foundation systems
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Dutch flood technology partners for advanced protection
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Low disruption installation
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Data driven environmental assessments before installation
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Focus on long term resilience, not quick fixes
Every solution is built to support healthier land, safer buildings, and stronger communities.
A SOLUTION:
SOLAR ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATORS
There is an inexhaustible amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. SOURCE combines sunlight and air to create an abundant supply of drinking water. We then enrich SOURCE water with minerals to ensure great taste and health benefits. Unlike municipal or bottled water, SOURCE is without waste.
EVERY PERSON, EVERY PLACE.
HOW MUCH WATER DO YOU NEED?
MONTHLY PRODUCTION
A standard array produces 180 – 300 litres, or 360 – 600 standard water bottles each month, depending on sunlight and humidity. Array sizes are designed by modeled performance.
2 Hydropanels
Average couple, small family or small office
3+ Hydropanel Array
Average or large family, office, school, community




