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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Scientists at Rice University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that laser-induced graphene (LIG) is a highly effective ...
Technology Nanotechnology Coatings Graphene
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In a world of smart phones , smart cars, and smart appliances, drinking water utilities are striving to keep pace, installing smart meters that send ...
Business Meter Optimisation Smart Meters Meters Smart Meters Manager Smart Water Management Smart Metering (AMI)
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
It’s 2030, and you are headed to a public hearing on a proposed new pipeline project. Not an oil pipeline, but a freshwater pipeline that would move water ...
Business Economics Water Export Water Rates Economics
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Global Water Resources, a pure-play water resource management company, has acquired Eagletail Water Company, a water utility located west of metropolitan ...
Business Water Supply Business Strategy Natural Resource Management Water Supply Water Management Water Resource Management Water Resources Management Mergers & Acquisitions Mergers & Acquisition
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The San Antonio Water System is using a new tool that many people don't know the company is using: robots. The robots help crews keep an eye on all sewer ...
Technology Technology Leakage Detection Sewage Leakage Infrastructure Integrated Infrastructure Infrastructure Management Sewer Networks Pipeline Rehabilitation Infrastructure Pick & Place Robots Pipes and Pipelines
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Itron has signed a contract with Águas de Matão to help the Brazilian water utility reduce water losses and improve revenue. The utility, which serves 27,000 ...
Business Technology Integrated Urban Water Management Data Management Urban Water Water Utility Leakage Water Management Urban Water Supply Water Software
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by Natasha Wiseman, Public relations partner at Grundfos UK&I
Wastewater specialist WPL is targeting the European market with investment in its Diamond compact packaged treatment plant range. The company says the ...
Technology Sewage Treatment Decentralized Wastewater Technology Wastewater Treatment Wastewater Collection Waste Management
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
SnowPure Water Technologies, who makes and sells industrial and medical water purification technologies into the $5 billion global ultrapure market, was ...
Business Treatment Purification Technology Business Strategy Water Supply Water Purification
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Defense and technology company L3 Technologies (LLL) has announced the acquisition of undersea power company Open Water Power for an undisclosed amount. ...
Business Technology Energy Energy Reduction Mergers & Acquisitions Mergers & Acquisition
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
In Mexico City, Veolia will build and operate the first Waste to Energy facility in Latin America. Jointly with leading global and Mexican companies, Veolia ...
Technology Wastewater Use Technology Waste to Value Urban Water Urban Resource Management Waste to Energy Energy Plant Design Waste Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Climate change will likely cause wheat and barley yields to decline by 17 to 33 percent by the end of the century, predicts a new statistical model developed ...
Crop Farming Cereals
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Crops like almonds cannot be left fallow during dry years without jeopardizing the trees, which during droughts require extensive irrigation in the California ...
Agriculture Groundwater Aquifer Groundwater Recharge Aquifer Recharge Groundwater Modeling
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A Dubai firm’s dream of towing icebergs from the Antarctic to the Arabian Peninsula could face some titanic obstacles.Where many see the crumbling polar ice ...
Water Supply
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Spatio-temporal patterns of water-use efficiency (per-capita consumption) over the continental United States. Colors indicate the change in per-capita ...
Water Efficiency Conservation Consumption Efficiency Improvement
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
For years, scientists have been warning of a so-called “hot spot” of accelerated sea-level rise along the northeastern U.S. coast. But accurately modeling this ...
Climate Induced Hazard Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Resilience
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Osmosis, the fluid phenomenon responsible for countless slug deaths at the hands of mischievous children, is fundamentally important not only to much of ...
Reverse Osmosis Reverse Osmosis Forward Osmosis
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The European Space Agency (ESA) spin-off that can help to preserve water supplies while guaranteeing crop irrigation is now undergoing final testing. Water ...
Technology Irrigation Irrigation and Drainage Future Irrigation Systems Conservation Irrigation & Water Management GIS Spatial Analysis Conservation Agriculture GIS & Remote Sensing Satellite
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Eileen DeDomenicis on the patio of her home on Arizona Avenue as a high tide and rain cause flooding in parts of Atlantic City. Credit: Ted Blanco Climate ...
Flood Management Human Rights Flood management Flood damage Flood prediction
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The leaders of this former oil boomtown never gave 2-year-old Adam Walton a chance to avoid the poison. It came in city water, delivered to his family’s tap ...
Human Rights Infrastructure Public Health
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The World Bank has given Botswana a $145.5 million loan to build water projects after it suffered a severe El Nino-induced drought in the past two years, ...
Government Water Rights Water Security Water Access Water Supply Drought Empowerment & Right To Water Water Security Water Supply