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Water purification processes usually make use of robust membranes for filtering off contaminants while working at high pressures. Can materials employing ...
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In a “bad news, good news” scenario, researchers at North Carolina State University have found that some black sludge growing in a water-treatment site could ...
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A solar-powered purification system could provide remote parts of India with clean drinking water for the first time. Researchers at Edinburgh are developing ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
As a tool against sea-level rise, the idea seems a little counterintuitive: Add water to the ground. But the laws of physics support it: Pump millions of ...
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In the circular economy, businesses and consumers are taking steps to transition towards a stronger, more circular economy where resources, including water, ...
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The way we consume things in America deeply affects environments half a world away. In a way, it’s the ultimate data design challenge: mapping not only the ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Group (GEMMA) is investigating how to produce new energy resources and high-value products from wastewater of ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Flash floods, burst riverbanks, overflowing drains, contaminants leaching into waterways: some of the disruptive, damaging and hazardous consequences of ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The free app, available for iPhone and Android devices, provides timely satellite rain data via UCI’s globally recognized weather tracking and analysis ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The bacteria that cause the life-threatening disease cholera may initiate infection by coordinating a wave of mass shapeshifting that allows them to more ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
As president, Trump wants to rebuild America’s core; here are the likely smooth roads and potholes ahead By Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Staff Writer No ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers at the University of Bath suggest developments in 3D printing techniques could open the door to the advancement of membrane capabilities. This ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Upgrades to a wastewater treatment plant along Ontario’s Grand River, led to a 70 per cent drop in fish that have both male and female characteristics within ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
If water rates continue rising at projected amounts, the number of U.S. households unable to afford water could triple in five years, to nearly 36 percent, ...
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