A low cost, long life floating cover for water reservoirs and dams at mining sites where water is a limited resource or where loss of water through evaporation is a costly problem with clear social, economic and environmental repercussions. Long-term applications of the technology include conservation of water in irrigation and reticulation systems, farm dams, and conservation of water in large human consumption water reservoirs.
The dam cover has the potential to reduce water loss caused by evaporation by up to 99%, with a life expectancy of 3 to 5 times that of competing long life cover systems, with only marginally higher capital costs.
Status
This project has been temporarily put on hold while DeVere responds to an immediate market need for the Trench Leaching and CARIAT Conveying technologies.
A low cost, long life floating cover for water reservoirs and dams at mining sites where water is a limited resource or where loss of water through evaporation is a costly problem with clear social, economic and environmental repercussions. Long-term applications of the technology include conservation of water in irrigation and reticulation systems, farm dams, and conservation of water in large human consumption water reservoirs.