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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
With their measurements and samples, nearly 3,500 schoolchildren have assisted a research study on lakes and global warming, now published in the journal ...
Academic Research Environment Climate Change Lake Management Impact Environmental Impact
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Droughts can travel hundreds to thousands of kilometers from where they started, like a slow-moving hurricane. A new study sheds light on how these droughts ...
Academic Water Access Environment Drought Climate Change Access Water Supply
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A UConn climate scientist finds that Californians severe rains are likely to continue due to global warming. After years of severe drought in southern ...
Academic Stormwater Management Climate Change Stormwater Infrastructure Storm Water Management Stormwater Runoff
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
MIT spinout Bevi believes it can cut the world’s use of bottled drinks with a smart beverage machine of the same name that delivers high quality, flavored ...
Technology Startups Technology Drinking Water Food & Beverage Bottled Water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Skiing in July? It could happen this year, but California’s days of bountiful snow are numbered. After five years of drought and water restrictions, the state ...
Academic Research Environment Drought Climate Change Water Supply Storage
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Suez Environnement said that it had partnered with a Canadian pension fund manager to acquire GE’s water treatment technology business in an all-cash deal ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
PUB, Singapore's national water agency, appointed CH2M to deliver the Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (WRP) – a key component of PUB's Deep Tunnel Sewerage ...
Business Water Supply Integrated Urban Water Management Integrated Water Management Water Supply Infrastructure Integrated Infrastructure water treatment Water Treatment & Control Water & Wastewater Treatment Plant Engineering Partnership and Capacity Strengthening
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Chances are that you don’t think about industrial agriculture and its effect on the environment and local farming when you’re going through the drive-through ...
Agriculture & Forestry
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Using living organisms such as bacteria or fungi, as an alternative to chemical fertilisers, can improve the soil biodiversity of green roofs, according to ...
Green Buildings Green Building
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Warming in the 21st century reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet, about the amount of water used by 2 million people for one year, ...
Water Supply
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Could the common housefly, which has evolved to recycle nutrients from waste products, help address the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...
Agriculture & Forestry
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Communities near Oroville Dam just got an unenviable front-row seat to what happens when climactic forces and man-made infrastructure clash. It was also a ...
Infrastructure Infrastructure Infrastructure
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A new machine called the Watly offers solutions to three of society’s most important challenges – ensuring access to clean water, sustainable energy ...
Technology Water Access Technology Water-Energy Nexus Access Water & Energy Conservation Energy Efficiency Internet Water-Energy-Food Security
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Cerium dioxide nanoparticles block communication between bacteria and prevent the formation of biofilms 21.12.2016 Chemists at Johannes Gutenberg University ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Arsenic is the leading freshwater contaminant on the planet, affecting millions of people worldwide and causing an untold number of deaths every year. Removing ...
Arsenic Groundwater Arsenic Mitigation Bioremediation Groundwater Pollution Remediation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A crop spray which can boost farmer's wheat yields by one fifth, without the need for genetic modification, has been developed by scientists at Oxford ...
Agriculture & Forestry
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Dr Raghav Pant, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher for the ITRC, won the prestigious Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize 2016 in Systems Modelling. His research ...
Infrastructure Infrastructure Management Risk Management Infrastructure Infrastructure
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by Esther Rasenberg, Water News Europe
Specially equipped drones are more and more used to inspect sewers. With the images and data the drone collects, leakages can be detected easily and ...
Technology Technology Monitors IT Water Supply Infrastructure Sewer Networks Waste Management 3D Modelling Robotics Pipelines Pipes and Pipelines
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Singapore's ministers Masagos Zulkifli, Chan Chun Sing and Heng Swee Keat answered key questions MPs had on the water price hike. Here is a summary of their ...
Government Water Supply Integrated Urban Water Management Integrated Water Management Water Supply Water Utility Consumption Infrastructure Utility Management
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by Yoshimi Yoshida, Environmental Consultant
SUMMARY Ten West Link would provide a reliable 500 kV transmission connection between substations in Tonopah, Arizona and Riverside County, California, west ...
Construction Energy Power Distribution Power Transmission Transportation