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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
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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 ...
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With agriculture production already accounting for the majority of water consumption in the U.S. and water scarcity likely to affect nearly every state, ...
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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 ...
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'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 ...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Water purification processes usually make use of robust membranes for filtering off contaminants while working at high pressures. Can materials employing ...
Academic Purification Membranes Membrane Technology Membrane Filtration
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers at Rice, Kazan universities develop unique sorbents, targeting Fukushima accident site. Researchers at Rice University and Kazan Federal ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
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 ...
Academic Purification Water Treatment Solutions
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
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 ...
Academic Water Sewage
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Sea-level rise caused by climate change and global warming, poses a major threat to coastal regions due to salt-water intrusion and damage to agricultural ...
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by Esther Rasenberg, Water News Europe
Why wasting water? That is the main question World Water Day is raising on the 22 of March this year. In 2017 the UN-Water programme concentrates on the ...
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