Best Content on The Water Network in 2017
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Our editors have selected the very best content that resonated with our members in 2017:
Best Articles:
7 Key Problems Utilities Need to Solve Before Facing Future Challenges
All over the world, water utilities have to face daily multiple difficulties in order to ensure water supply and sewer service to the citizens. Most of these problems are essentially related to technic and technology.
Water Footprint: A New Paradigm for Our Fresh Water Future
To solve the fresh water problem we must first understand how much water is available and how it is being used.
How To Buy Desalination Plant?
An overview of major steps needed to create Request For Quotation for reverse osmosis desalination plant.
Can Pervaporation Filter Seawater in Minutes?
Researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt have found a cost-effective desalination technology which can filter salt water in minutes without using electricity.
UBC Researchers Take the ‘Stink’ Out of Wastewater Treatment
Researchers from UBC’ s Okanagan campus have developed a new way of making wastewater treatment dramatically safer and better smelling by using common and inexpensive chemicals.
Best Blogs:
Hide and Seep: Citizen Science and the Fresh Water Cycle
Springs are the point of origin for all that follows in terms of study, protection, and sustainability of the world’s ocean and freshwater resources.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Water Sector - the Best Kept Secrets are Often Reserved for the Locals
The water sector is like a Van Gogh impressionist painting, when you look at it from afar, it has all the appearances of a beautiful field of sunflowers. But when you get up close, you realize it’s really a myriad of tiny brush strokes of all different colours that somehow blend to give the impression of the overall picture.
Water Industry Professionals Should Stop Using the Term “Toilet to Tap”
The term " Toilet to Tap" is used to describe the innovative process of treating and recycling sewage. This article argues that the name does water recycling and reuse a grave disservice and should not be used by industry professionals.
Where Is the Water Industry’s Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is recognized as the innovation “ epicenter. ” Their products consume my generation’ s interests in shaping self- validating social media profiles or awing at the convenience of ordering dinner from a smartphone app. With that, it asks the question: Why aren’t we seeing a technological revolution at this level in other places?
The Risk of Conflict Over Water - And What to Do About It On the Supply Side
The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres predicts that " without effective management of our water resources, we risk intensified disputes between communities and sectors and increased tensions among nations."
Best Interviews:
Sanitation Conversation with Jack Sim, WTO and World Toilet Day Founder
Jack Sim is the founder of multiple successful businesses, among which is the World Toilet Organization. He has dedicated himself to promoting sanitation and clean, safe toilets and is the founder of The World Toilet Day - November 19th.
In Conversation with Philipp Saumweber, Chairman & CEO of Sundrop Farms
Philip Saumweber, Chairman & CEO of Sundrop Farms. Talks about applying desalination and hydroponics for Australian tomato farms.
Underwater Conversation with Sergio and Luca Gamberini from the Ocean Reef Group
Sergio Gamberini is the President of the Ocean Reef Group and Luca Gamberini is the Marketing Manager. They talk about their underwater garden - Nemo's garden.
Best Resolved Questions:
- Help us Design a Blue School Concept Curriculum
Minja Ivanov was planning to organize courses about the environment and water sustainability for school children at REC, Bulgaria. She asked for your experience and advice of designing and conducting the "blue school curriculum" courses for young children.
- Grey Water Reuse: Safe or Not?
Ghoewylah Darries asked if it is safe to reuse grey water for gardening and flushing toilets without treating it first? She wanted to know what health issues could using grey water in gardens pose?
- Best Sanitation Innovations in Africa
Miriam Mannak was looking for simple and effective innovations that tackle access to sanitation and improve overall sanitation in the developing world.
- Bacteria Used for Wastewater Treatment
Miriam Mannak was looking for simple and effective innovations that tackle access to sanitation and improve overall sanitation in the developing world.
- Technologies for River Water Treatment
David Kimani was in need of your advice on simple technological innovations to treat the contaminated water from the river source for urban needs, without having a river plant.
Best Documents:
Desalination Engineering - Planning and Design
This book provides detailed background information on the planning and engineering of brackish and seawater desalination projects for municipal water supply.
White Paper: Control Algae in Drinking Water Reservoirs
This 26-pages white paper ‘Control Algae in Drinking Water Reservoirs’ provides a complete and in-depth overview of the causes and possible interventions to control algal blooms in drinking water ( raw water, intake) reservoirs.
Community-Based Flood Management
This Integrated Flood Management Tool presents community participation in sequential order of the disaster risk reduction cycle, which includes prevention or mitigation as well as preparedness for, response to, and recovery from, flood disasters.
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