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Outside the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, two red boxes topped with flowers look like overdesigned planters, but they are actually public urinals ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
New York Changes How It Tests for Lead in Schools’ Water, and Finds More Metal When experts said last year that New York City’s method of testing water in ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A security researcher is showing that it’s not hard to hold industrial control systems for ransom. He's experimented with a simulated water treatment system ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers have completed the first flights of a NASA-led field campaign that is targeting one of the biggest gaps in scientists' understanding of Earth's ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Roads are causing rapid evolutionary change in wild populations of plants and animals according to a Concepts and Questions paper published in Frontiers in ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In the future, wide-ranging composite materials are expected to be stronger, lighter, cheaper and greener for our planet, thanks to an invention by ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Multidisciplinary engineering team designs new solar-paneled walls that make greywater reusable and a source of thermal heat. Architect Maria Paz Gutierrez is ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A Florida State University researcher has drawn a link between the impact of climate change and untreated drinking water on the rate of gastrointestinal ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A team of Utah State University College of Engineering researchers developed a new primer – a tool used in DNA amplification – that simplifies the process of ...
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by Vishakha Rajput, Previous COO The Water Network at AquaSPE AG
GE Water has partnered with the University of Guelph and opened a pilot facility which will reduce the energy costs of wastewater treatment by focusing on ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
ExxonMobil's in-line technology dehydrates natural gas using a patented absorption system inside pipes. The company says the in-line technology can be used at ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
South Florida water managers are considering a plan that would flush water deep underground. The pumping would help protect the aging dike and prevent ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Bottled water industry releases water-use “best practices” guidance document. Taking another proactive step to promote responsible water stewardship and ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Ransomware continues to pique the interest of both criminals and security researchers alike. The Georgia Institute of Technology conducted a simulation ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Utah State University College researchers developed a new tool used in DNA amplification -- that simplifies the process of identifying bacteria found in soil ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
UM Rosenstiel School's Department of Atmospheric Sciences researches developed a mathematical model that simulates the motion of small spherical objects ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) has warned that the country may run dry by 2025 if the authorities didn’t take an immediate ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Life as we know it is threatened when fresh water grows scarce – particularly during drought and when contaminated by human or non-human events. It seems ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Changes in climate can rapidly impact even the deepest freshwater aquifers according to Penn State and Columbia University hydrologists. The researchers found ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The consumption information available on the display is incentive enough to reduce water and energy consumption when showering on average by 22 per cent . ...
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