WATER MANAGEMENT
Building strong data foundations
Acquire Technology Solutions recently unveiled EnviroSys 9.4, delivering improved ways for environmental professionals to manage, identify, action and report on environmental data while staying ahead of compliance obligations.
Considering the platform’ s potential use in water management process, IM reached out to the global information management software company, putting some questions to Stuart van de Water, ESG Portfolio Leader.
IM: How‘ deep’ does the EnviroSys team go when it comes to helping organisations and mine sites standardise water quality sampling and analysis programs?
SvdW: EnviroSys is not just about the technology, but also about people and process to ensure environmental teams get real, longterm value with their sampling and analysis programs.
People: Our team includes specialists who understand the realities of sampling in the field, managing a realm of sampling schedules with data coming from a multitude of sources, regulatory pressure and site constraints. When we work with customers, we understand how teams are collecting and using their water data and help everyone, from site level to management, gain an understanding of what‘ good’ water data management should look like.
Process: When we implement EnviroSys into organisations, our focus is defining and standardising their water quality programs. This includes sampling locations and frequencies, parameter lists, laboratory methods, QA / QC requirements and approval workflows. The aim is to create consistent, repeatable processes that can be applied across multiple sites and jurisdictions, while still allowing for local regulatory requirements.
By focusing on process first, we help customers remove ambiguity and reduce errors before data ever enters the system. That is critical for miners building water quality and water monitoring programs and being able to report confidently even when under scrutiny.
Technology: EnviroSys reinforces the processes through technology. The platform is configured so validation rules, approvals, traceability and audit trails are embedded so that standards are applied consistently every time data is captured or ingested.
In practice, this means EnviroSys becomes more than a repository for results. It acts as a control layer that supports people on site, enforces agreed processes and ensures water quality data is reliable, defensible and comparable over time.
IM: How much of this‘ thinking’ can be embedded in software to flag when issues might come up?
SvdW: A significant amount of this‘ thinking’ is built into the software.
EnviroSys captures regulatory requirements, thresholds and site-specific rules and applies them automatically as data flows through the system. Rather than having to rely on time consuming manual checks after results are reported, the software continuously applies this logic at the point of data capture, ingestion and review. In practical terms, EnviroSys can flag potential issues by:
approach.
“ Across both sites, the Multiflo systems delivered: uninterrupted operation during the most challenging seasons; improved worker safety by eliminating electrical hazards and reducing flooding; high mobility, allowing pumps to be repositioned as mine conditions evolved; diesel-driven independence from unstable or unavailable electrical infrastructure; and long-term reliability, supported by Weir’ s aftermarket service teams.”
These outcomes underscore the value of engineered solutions tailored to real-world mining conditions, and Weir has recently updated its Multiflo range to ensure it can deliver improved value, lead times and manufacturing efficiency. Ross explained:“ Available in both diesel-driven and electric-driven configurations, the new Multiflo GMS pump units retain the proven‘ DNA’ of existing Multiflo technology while introducing a modernised, configured-to-order design for globalised mass manufacture.” Homing in on HDS potential
Patented by Anglo American and developed in collaboration with WSP, hydraulic dewatered stacking( HDS) offers a safer and more sustainable long-term approach to tailings management and mine closure, the companies say. It also allows a significant proportion of tailings water to be captured and reused – potentially helping improve the water management considerations at site.
HDS combines and co-disposes sand generated by coarse particle recovery( CPR) with the mine’ s tailings, filtering and dewatering the tailings in the process, to produce a stable, well-consolidated tailings stack with a low degree of saturation – a key contributor towards complying with the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management( GISTM).
As envisaged in the HDS process, the liberated supernatant and seepage water is collected and managed
46 International Mining | MAY 2026