info4eco

info4eco is a Canberra-based environmental tech startup run by environmental engineer Philip Prentice. Using the latest in big data processing and hydrological modelling the company has developed flood information tools which help Canberras home owners and government advisors understand and mitigate flood risks for every Canberra property or new development. More lives are lost as a result of flooding in Australia than from bushfire. The financial cost of inaction can be also phenomenal. The Queensland 2011 floods cost Australia more than $6.7 billion. In Canberra, the 1971 Woden Valley flash floods were estimated to cause $96 million in damages (in 2018 terms) at a time when the region was being developed into suburban housing. More recently, in February 2018 we saw that flash flooding is indeed still a problem in the ACT: floods overflowed stormwater systems, wreaked havoc on houses, and even closed the ANU.