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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Puget Sound is one of the best places in the United States to capture energy from tides. As water in the Sound rises and falls twice daily at high and low ...
Academic Energy Water-Energy Nexus Water & Energy Conservation Energy
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Precise carbon measurements indicate that peat is already being formed at the Volgermeerpolder near Amsterdam (NL), a toxic waste landfill site that was ...
Technology Solid Waste Management Pollution Landfill Gas Waste disposal
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Every year thousands of new contaminants enter the market in common consumer products and are washed down our drains without treatment. They end up in the ...
Academic Toxins Environment Environment Ecotoxicology
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Wastewater treatment plants have a PR problem: People don’t like to think about what happens to the waste they flush down their toilets. But for many engineers ...
Technology Wastewater Disposal Wastewater Treatment Wastewater Treatment Plant Design
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Penn State researchers have created a new hybrid technology that produces unprecedented amounts of electrical power where seawater and freshwater combine at ...
Technology Energy Water-Energy Nexus
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Scientists are seeking to develop chickpeas that can flourish in dry climates, to help some of the world’s poorest farmers reliably grow the staple crop. ...
Crop Farming Drought-Resistant Technology Crops
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Princeton researchers have developed a way to place onto surfaces special coatings that chemically “communicate” with bacteria, telling them what to do. The ...
Paints & Coatings Coatings
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
New ceramic nanofiber ‘sponges’ could be used for flexible insulation, water purificationJune 2, 2017 Contact: Kevin Stacey 401-863-3766Ceramic materials ...
Membranes Ceramics Ceramics
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the microbiologist Andreas Farnleitner is looking at new methods for analysing faecal pollution in ...
Microorganism Decontamination Contaminant Removal Microbiology Water microbiology
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In August 2014, toxins from algal blooms in Lake Erie shut down the city of Toledo, Ohio’s water supply, leaving half a million residents without potable water ...
Decontamination Decontamination Toxins Algae Ecotoxicology
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Florida leads the south in water efficiency, according to a study examining water use across the United States.While states in the north have become more water ...
Water Efficiency Conservation Energy Efficiency Water Conservation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Rising groundwater can flood roads up to two miles from the ocean, new research from UNH has found.On New Hampshire’s Seacoast, rising seas could cause flooded ...
Flood Management Flood Modeling Flood management Flood damage Flood prediction Flood Risk Management Sea Level Rise Risk Perception Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assesment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Micropollutants enter rivers and streams in effluents discharged from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). As well as having adverse impacts on individual ...
Pollutants Water Pollution Micropollutants Pollution Pollution Micropollutants
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
New Indiana University research shows many Americans don't know how clean water gets to their homes and especially what happens after wastewater is flushed ...
Education & Research Infrastructure Education
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
BENEATH THIS DUSTY DESERT LIES AN ANCIENT WATER SYSTEM THAT'S STILL IN USE By Rachel BrownFrom above, it seems as though a series of holes were pierced in ...
Infrastructure
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Ensuring a robust crop for the next year, hull rot prevention, and producing an earlier and more uniform harvest are all reasons to maximize irrigation ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Where you live has a lot to do with the price of the water that comes out of your kitchen faucet — but odds are, it’s getting more expensive. A recent survey ...
Water Rates Water Water Conservation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Because it is inexpensive and works effectively at lower temperatures, road salt (sodium chloride) is widely used by most municipalities to keep winter ...
Stormwater Management Stormwater Storm Water Management Stormwater Runoff
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Last February, record storms and snowmelt threatened to overwhelm the two spillways of California’s Oroville reservoir, the tallest dam in the United States. ...
Infrastructure Dams
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Recently, solar steam and vapor generation has attracted attention as a promising prospect in desalination, sterilization and chemical purification. Tremendous ...
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