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by Yoshimi Yoshida, Environmental Consultant
Turkey statistics Area: 783,600 km² Population: 77,700,000 Installed hydropower capacity: 23,661 MW (2014) Hydropower generation: 39.53 TWh (2014) ...
Water Energy Renewable Energy Policy Hydroelectric Energy Industrial
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by Yoshimi Yoshida, Environmental Consultant
Office of Water: Feedback on Reducing Regulatory Burden For questions about this process, please contact: owregulatoryreform@epa.gov See EPA's Regulatory ...
Water Integrated Water Management Pollution Chemicals Agrochemicals Inorganic Chemicals Organic Chemicals Fuel Additives Pharmaceutical Chemicals Chemical Research Chemical Engineering Food Additives Environment
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by Yoshimi Yoshida, Environmental Consultant
The authors address a critical point that extreme climates may escalate internal / civil conflicts, as well as armed conflicts. The case drawn here is ...
Water Agriculture Public Health Environmental Health Water Cooperation & Conflict Environment Drought Human Rights Water Supply Hydrology Governance & Planning Agriculture & Forestry
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by Yoshimi Yoshida, Environmental Consultant
Photo taken March 11, 2011, by Sadatsugu Tomizawa and released via Jiji Press on March 21, 2011, showing tsunami waves hitting the coast of Minamisoma in ...
Research International Disaster Planning, Preparedness and Response Natural Catastrophes Disaster Management
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by Yoshimi Yoshida, Environmental Consultant
Groundwater Loss overtime has been recorded here by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), a pair of satellites that detect changes in Earth's ...
Water Water Footprint Groundwater Drought Groundwater Mapping Agriculture & Forestry
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
New research from the University of Minnesota points to lawn fertilizers and pet waste as the dominant sources of nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in seven ...
Academic Fertilizers Urban Drainage Integrated Urban Water Management Environment Urban Water Integrated Infrastructure Landscape & Urban Design
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Used in filtration membranes, the ultrathin material could help make desalination more productive. A single sheet of graphene, comprising an atom-thin ...
Technology Ultrafiltration Filtration Filtration Membrane Technology Membrane Filtration Filtration Graphene
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A new nationwide study has unearthed the huge hidden potential of tapping into salty aquifers as a way to relieve the growing pressure on freshwater supplies ...
Groundwater Aquifer Saline Water Aquifer Recharge Groundwater Recharge Groundwater Pollution Groundwater Mapping Groundwater Salinisation Aquifer Treatment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Fracking has not contaminated groundwater in northwestern West Virginia, but accidental spills of fracking wastewater may pose a threat to surface water in the ...
Fracking Water Supply Surface-Groundwater Interaction Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Human activity risks contaminating pristine water stockpiled deep underground since the age of the mammoths said a study that warns of a looming threat to a ...
Academic Groundwater Aquifer Aquifer Recharge Groundwater Recharge Aquifer Recharge Groundwater Mapping Groundwater Resource
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
San Jose Water Company (SJWC) has selected Echologics’ leak detection technology to continuously monitor its pipeline network to help the utility measure and ...
Business Technology Leakage Detection Integrated Water Management Water Supply Leakage Consumption Leakage Reduction Pipes and Pipelines
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Badger Meter Inc. will acquire D-Flow Technology AB of Luleå, Sweden for $23 million in cash, the Brown Deer-based company announced. Badger Meter Inc.’s ...
Business Technology Integrated Water Management Metering Consumption Flow Meters Mergers & Acquisition
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Modern Water PLC has secured an order for its seawater desalination technology Forward Osmosis to China's Hangzhou Water Treatment Technology Development ...
Business Technology Desalination Membrane Technology Membrane Filtration Sea Water Desalinisation Forward Osmosis Sustainable Desalination
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by Vishakha Rajput, Previous COO The Water Network at AquaSPE AG
The model outlines how the problems of bad water and sanitation can be solved at a lower overall cost than current arrangements A new approach to accelerating ...
Business Water Policy Water Access Human Rights Access Empowerment & Right To Water Water Management Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
As the sensitive areas of global climate change, Yellow River basin, situated in arid and semiarid regions, also plays an important role in food production. ...
Basin Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation Management Irrigation Scheduling
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When returning from a swim in the ocean, sometimes it seems as though your towel has moved. Of course, it’s just that the water line has shifted. The natural ...
Groundwater Aquifer Aquifer Recharge Groundwater Mapping
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
An international team of scientists, including one from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has found that up to 20 percent loss in the annual ...
Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A promising water technology invention combats climate change and helps waterway conservation. Surendra Pradhan (on the left), Riku Vahala and Anna Mikola ...
Sewage Treatment Nutrients Recovery Sewage Hydrology Nutrient Cycling Nutrient Recovery & Reuse
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have successfully created a membrane that removes viruses from ...
Technology Public Health Decontamination Decontamination Water Access Membranes Contaminant Removal Filtration Membrane Technology Membrane Filtration Drinking Water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Many farms in drought-prone regions of the U.S. rely on drip irrigation as a water-saving method to grow crops. These systems pump water through long thin ...
Drip Irrigation Irrigation Conservation Irrigation Management Irrigation Scheduling Irrigation Design Conservation