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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Nutrient emissions to waterways, and the energy consumption in the production of fertilisers will decrease. Researchers of Aalto University have developed a ...
Fertilizers Wastewater Use Water Reuse & Recycling Wastewater Collection Reuse Nutrient Recovery & Reuse
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Anthropogenic groundwater exploitation changes soil moisture and land-atmosphere water and energy fluxes, and essentially affects the ecohydrological processes ...
Groundwater Recharge Groundwater Mapping Groundwater Resource
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Forget about oil or gas – you should be worrying about the less discussed but far more concerning fact that the world is running out of clean, drinkable ...
Water Agriculture
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
An EPFL researcher has taken a methodology designed to improve underground urban planning around the world one step further. The study, which combines geology ...
Groundwater Pollution
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The quality of our rivers and lakes could be placed under pressure from harmful levels of soluble phosphorus, despite well-intended measures to reduce soil ...
Environment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The bacteria that cause Legionnaire's disease grow well in warm tap water installations with ample dissolved organic matter--conditions that support the growth ...
Public Health Water Quality Water Quality Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Removing Contaminants from Water Fresh, clean water coming directly from the tap is a true luxury. In developing countries, people often have no choice but to ...
Purification Water Purification
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Low-flow building water systems designed to conserve water pose potential health hazards because they may cause an increase in disease-causing organisms and ...
Water Quality Hydrodynamics & Water Quality Water Quality Management Water Quality Monitoring
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When ice and snow melt away into streams and groundwater, road salt goes with it A t the edge of Behrend Fields, where a footpath leads back to a one-acre ...
Environment Pollution
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Water Network team had the pleasure to interview Rodney Herrington, the CEO of Aqua Research. Rodney Herrington has more than 40 years in product ...
Technology Startups Reverse Osmosis Membranes Water Treatment Solutions Membrane Technology Reverse Osmosis Membrane Filtration water treatment Water Treatment & Control Water Technology
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Europe is an urban and increasingly urban continent with the percentage of the population living in urban centers expected to increase from over 70% in 2015 ...
Social Environment Pollution Restoration River Restoration Water Quality Management Flood management Eco-City Development Water Waterway
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The new maps can tell which countries, and which commodities, threaten habitats and wildlife at various hotspots. Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia. ...
Academic Water Resource Mapping Data Management Ecosystem Management Impact Environmental Impact Climate Risk Ecosystem Data
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A battle is under way in the Amazon region of Brazil between indigenous groups and river dwellers on the one hand and big corporations on the other as the ...
Social Water Security Water Access Water Cooperation & Conflict River Engineering Water Security Water Security Dams Conflict Management
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The flashpoint for Syria's war, six years old this March, has in recent days taken the form of an elemental struggle over water. The drinking water supply to ...
Social Drinking Water Security Water Security Water Cooperation & Conflict Integrated Urban Water Management Water Security Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Concrete isn’t thought of as a plastic, but plasticity at small scales boosts concrete’s utility as the world’s most-used material by letting it constantly ...
Concrete
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A year after Storm Desmond struck the UK and at a time when the UK’s Committee on Climate Change have called for urgent action to address the risks to the UK ...
Flood Modeling Flood management Flood damage Flood prediction
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
On Dec. 11, 2014, a freight train of a storm steamed through much of California, deluging the San Francisco Bay Area with three inches of rain in just one ...
Flood Modeling Flood damage
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Consumers who want to calculate and reduce their use of products containing chemicals that can contaminate water supplies now have a tool to assist them, ...
Water Quality Pollution
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
With every toilet flush, valuable information encrypted in DNA is lost. Wastewater may hold a wealth of insight for public health officials, and an ...
Wastewater Collection
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
New research shows that sewage contains a source of energy that can be harvested by using hungry bacteria. Domestic sewage contains various organic ...
Wastewater Use Water-Energy Nexus