Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
"Urea-Hydroxyapatite Nanohybrids for Slow Release of Nitrogen" ACS Nano The “Green Revolution” of the ’60s and ’70s has been credited with helping to feed ...
Fertilizers
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A material made by combining a metal and a polymer can help generate hydrogen and fresh water from wastewater. Fresh water scarcity and energy security are ...
Academic Treatment Filtration water treatment Water & Wastewater Materials
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
It might be hard to imagine what link there could be between a huge scientific machine underneath Geneva and a field of tomatoes in Lebanon but both need ...
Irrigation Irrigation Management Irrigation Design
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Deepika Kurup (born 1998) is an inventor, scientist, and clean water advocate. She is the recipient of the 2012 Discovery Education 3M Young ...
Photocatalysis Photochemical
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A cormorant splashes around in the Duke Stormwater Reclamation Pond while Megan Fork, sitting in the shade under the shelter at the end of the pier with ...
Stormwater Management Stormwater Storm Water Management Stormwater Runoff
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Cornell engineers hope that clean water runs deep. They have developed a new technique to test for a wide range of micropollutants in lakes, rivers and other ...
Environment
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Floating wetlands may seem odd but are perfectly natural. They occur when mats of vegetation break free from the shore of a body of water. That got ecological ...
Environment Wetlands Constructed Wetlands
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Low-cost iron hydroxide coatings with unique fin-like shapes can clean heavily contaminated water with a simple dipping procedure Published online Jan 25, ...
Treatment Purification
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The snow-capped mountains of Colorado and Utah contain trillions of gallons of water stored in the form of snow. Meltwater from this snow will eventually flow ...
River Studies Water Supply
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Ohio's agriculture leaders say thousands of farmers have completed training that will be required for putting fertilizer on fields, but many more face a ...
Fertilizers Algae
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Lack of fresh water requires the development of new principles of desalination, including long-term method of nuclear desalination, water treatment methods ...
Desalination
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Professor Cafer T. Yavuz and his team at the Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water, and Sustainability (EEWS) have developed an adsorbent that can ...
Treatment Purification
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When a utility worker in Key Largo, Fla., noticed that a section of a paved street was not settling properly, he decided to remove a manhole cover and descend ...
Water Safety
Article
With agriculture production already accounting for the majority of water consumption in the U.S. and water scarcity likely to affect nearly every state, ...
Government Agriculture Water Footprint Agriculture Integrated Watershed Management Water Management Water Quality Management Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
Article
To become ‘smart’ in general, cities around the world will need to increase the efficiency of existing and new infrastructure and services to levels never ...
Technology Water Security Smart Meters Water Quality Integrated Urban Water Management Integrated Water Management Water Quality Management Integrated Infrastructure Groundwater Quality & Quantity Water Quality Monitoring Sustainable Cities Smart Metering (AMI)
Article
'Growing water scarcity is now one of the leading challenges for sustainable development, and that challenge is poised to intensify as the world's population ...
Government Irrigation Water Scarcity Water Footprint Water Resources Integrated Watershed Management Transboundary Water Resources Management Water
Article
Shifting climate patterns in North America could hit U.S. crop production hard, possibly even halving the production of corn by the end of the century, a new ...
Government Agriculture Water Footprint Climate Change Sustainable Water Resource Management Water Security
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers at TU Darmstadt are proposing geopolymers as an alternative to cement. These mineral binders are not only more environmentally friendly, they are ...
Technology Concrete
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Global sea level could rise by as much as 8 feet by 2100 in a worst-case scenario, according to federal report coauthored by Rutgers’ Robert E. Kopp Moreover, ...
Academic Sea Level Rise Risk Perception Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assesment
Article
by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Some of the most important crops risk substantial damage from rising temperatures. Some of the most important crops risk substantial damage from rising ...
Academic Agriculture