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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Without knowing it, most Americans rely every day on a class of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFASs. These man-made materials ...
Academic Decontamination Purification Decontamination Water Purification
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have developed strains of rice that are resistant to drought in real-world ...
Academic Irrigation Drought Water Supply Crop Farming Agriculture Crops
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Of the many pesticides that American farmers have embraced in their war on bugs, neonicotinoids are among the most popular. One of them, called imidacloprid, ...
Academic Pollutants Micropollutants Pollution Pollution Micropollutants
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Road salt is making North America’s freshwater lakes saltier, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The ...
Academic Water Pollution Pollution Lake Management Groundwater Pollution
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The United Nations has called on countries to “radically” increase investments in WASHinfrastructure not only to protect their populations from deadly ...
Social Sanitation Water & Sanitation Sanitation & Hygiene
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development ...
Technology Treatment Purification Nanotechnology Filtration Scarcity Desalination Drinking Water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A University of British Columbia-developed system that uses bacteria to turn non-potable water into drinking water will be tested next week in West Vancouver ...
Academic Decontamination Purification Decontamination
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A University of Surrey academic is leading research that has found an effective way to monitor and remove contaminant pharmaceuticals from water using a type ...
Academic Public Health Treatment Decontamination Pharmaceuticals Waste Decontamination Water Treatment Solutions
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Decades of over-pumping groundwater have irreversibly altered clay layers in parts of California’s Central Valley, causing the ground to sink and permanently ...
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Blue and Green Cities The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources Authors: Brears, Robert This book offers new research on ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Award-winning clean technology company Axine Water Technologies, has signed a wastewater services agreement with a leading supplier of computer storage ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Franklin Electric Co., Inc. announced that it has reached agreement to acquire controlling interests in three distributors in the U.S. professional ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
EuroChem Group AG, from Switzerland, has selected Veolia Water Technologies’ HPD® crystallisation technology for its VolgaKaliy Mine Expansion project in ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Spanish conglomerate Acciona has secured a CAD$525m ($394m) contract to build a new waste water treatment plant in Vancouver, Canada. The contract given by ...
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by Vishakha Rajput, Previous COO The Water Network at AquaSPE AG
Pentair, a global leader in sustainable water solutions, announced today—in honor of World Water Day 2017—its next Project Safewater initiative with Water ...
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The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
American Water completed its acquisition of the Shorelands Water Company, a privately owned water utility that provides water services to more than 11,000 ...
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My keynote speech about achieving the Water Security and Sustainable Development Goals at The Water Show Africa. The Water Show Africa held in Johannesburg ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Millions of gallons of raw sewage and untreated runoff have poured into the United States' second-largest estuary since a massive sewage treatment plant ...
Business Raw Sewage Sewage Treatment Risk Assessment Sewage Energy Plant Security Risk Analysis Sewage & Allied Waste
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
New research from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa reveals a large part of the heavily urbanized area of Honolulu and Waikīkī is at risk of groundwater ...
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