In this article, we share how our products support the United Nations SDG Goals while helping shape Australia’s disaster resilience. Working with communities, businesses, and governments, we are aware that our solutions must be sustainable, scalable, and adaptable to a changing world.
Climate Change & UN SDG Goals: Mitigating Damage
Rising sea levels are displacing entire villages. Extreme floods and storms are crippling infrastructure. Fires are destroying ecosystems. Access to safe water in some regions – a fundamental human need – is a rare luxury because of drought and saltwater intrusion.
Climate change is testing us in ways we have never seen before. In this context, UN SDG Goals are a quintessential blueprint for us to mitigate further damage.
Our products serve to fulfill this purpose: contributing to a larger goal, a bigger cause, and for better change. Here’s how our solutions support UN SDG Goals and ensure safer communities and better standards of living.
Flood Defence: Fighting Back Against Rising Waters
In Australia, flooding is the second deadliest hazard after heatwaves and responsible for approximately 20% of natural hazard deaths in Australia. The damage isn’t insignificant with whole towns underwater, main streets turned into rivers, farmland washed away overnight.
In many instances of flooding, you don’t always get weeks to prepare. Sometimes you’ve got hours. That’s why Bluemont’s flood barriers are designed to roll out fast. From our Boxwall® that can be set up under an hour to Beaver flood barrier tubes that can be extended to protect larger areas, our solutions cater to communities of every scale.
Every barrier that holds back a surge is more than a wall.
It protects families and their livelihoods, local infrastructure, and eases the burden on recovery efforts. By doing this, Bluemont’s flood defence systems enhance disaster resilience in Australia and supports UN SDG:
- Goal 11 of Sustainable Cities and Communities comes into action by safeguarding towns and neighbourhoods
- Goal 13 of Climate Action by helping communities adapt to rising flood risks
- Goal 3 of Good Health and Well-being by reducing injuries and protecting lives during extreme weather events.
Fire & Emergency Water Supply: Ensuring Reliable Access
When fires or emergencies strike, the challenge often isn’t the blaze itself – it’s ensuring water actually reaches where it’s needed. Bluemont’s HYTRANS mobile water supply systems address that by enabling the rapid transport of high volumes of water over long distances, drawing directly from rivers, lakes, or other natural sources.
These systems allow fire brigades, emergency services, and affected communities to refill trucks, tanks, or relief sites even when local supply is compromised. Portable, robust, and efficient, HYTRANS ensures that water, the most essential resource in any disaster response, is available where traditional infrastructure fails.
By doing this, Bluemont’s water supply solutions support:
- UN SDG Goal 6 of Clean Water and Sanitation by guaranteeing access to safe and usable water
- Goal 11 of Sustainable Cities and Communities by strengthening local resilience
- Reinforce Goal 13 of Climate Action by helping communities adapt to increasingly variable water conditions.
Erosion Control: Addressing the Quiet Destroyer
Erosion doesn’t grab headlines like fires or floods, but its effects steadily degrade land, farmland, and coastlines. Riverbanks collapse, farmland loses its best soil, coastlines retreat further inland every year. For farmers, it’s lost yield. For towns, it’s damaged infrastructure. For coastal communities, it’s homes and cultural sites slipping into the sea.
The underwater environment suffers too, as sediments are washed away and marine habitats are left vulnerable.
That’s why we offer Rock Bags – not rigid concrete walls or structures that fight against nature, but a flexible, sustainable solution that adapts with the surroundings.
On land, they stabilise banks, hold soil in place, and help vegetation take root. Offshore, they prevent scouring around piers, jetties, and subsea assets, while supporting the habitats of marine life. Over time, they blend into their surroundings, becoming part of the landscape – above and below water.
In doing so, Bluemont’s erosion control solutions support:
- UN SDG Goal 2 of Zero Hunger by preserving agricultural land
- Goal 13 of Climate Action by strengthening disaster resilience in Australia,
- Reinforce Goal 14 of Life Below Water and Goal 15 of Life on Land by protecting ecosystems across environments.
Solar Water Desalination: Ensuring Water Security for All
For many Australian communities, reliable water supply is no longer guaranteed – dams dry, bores turn saline, and shortages are becoming more frequent.
Traditional desalination can provide relief, but it comes at a cost: high energy use, steep expenses, and added carbon emissions. It’s not a sustainable long-term solution for communities facing ongoing water stress.
Bluemont’s solar-powered EWM desalination systems offer a better approach. Running entirely on solar energy, they convert seawater into safe drinking water without contributing to carbon emissions. Modular and adaptable, these systems can scale up to serve an entire community or be deployed rapidly after cyclones or other natural events that disrupt local water supplies.
Every litre of clean water produced is more than just a resource. It safeguards health, supports families, and strengthens community resilience against Australia’s increasingly dry conditions.
By doing this, Bluemont’s solar desalination solutions support:
- UN SDG Goal 6 of Clean Water and Sanitation by ensuring reliable access to drinking water
- Goal 7 of Affordable and Clean Energy through entirely solar-powered operation
- Goal 13 of Climate Action by reducing emissions while helping communities adapt to drought and climate variability.