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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Believed by some to be the most abundant known virus in the human digestive system, cross-assembly phage (shortened to crAssphage) remained undetected until ...
Water Quality Water Quality Management Water Quality Monitoring
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Urbanisation, climate change and pollution, among other phenomena stemming from human activity, pose a threat to water resources. Until now, urban wastewater, ...
Wastewater Phycoremediation Water & Wastewater
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have revealed a relationship between helium levels in groundwater and the amount of stress ...
Research Groundwater Mapping
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
An open access Water Atlas has gone online, giving the general public a 3D view of groundwater data from Australia. Water Atlas was developed by the ...
Technology Technology Water Resource Mapping GIS & Remote Sensing Technology Groundwater Groundwater Recharge Groundwater Mapping Water Software GIS & Remote Sensing Software
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Tiny, glowing crystals designed to detect and capture heavy-metal toxins such as lead and mercury could prove to be a powerful new tool in locating and ...
Decontamination Decontamination Water Quality
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A Purdue-affiliated startup has developed a low-cost, low-maintenance slow sand water filter technology to better provide clean and safe drinking water to ...
Water Quality Water Quality Management Water Quality Training
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The life of a watershed is complex. The watershed is the area of land separating the smaller water flows that feed into a larger, common outlet—like a river, ...
Water Quality Water Quality Management Water Quality Monitoring
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Is hydraulic fracturing — better known as fracking — safe, as the oil and gas industry claims? Or does the controversial drilling technique that has spurred a ...
Social Oil & Gas Water Public Health Environment Energy Fracking Drinking Water Infrastructure Law Fracking Technology Pumps Energy Earth Moving Equipment Water & Wastewater Environmental Impact
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Chromium is an odorless, tasteless metallic element. One form, chromium-3, is essential to human health and is found in many vegetables, fruits, meats and ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Environmental and public policy groups in New York are calling for a state constitutional amendment that would guarantee residents a right to clean air and ...
Government Agency Human Rights
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Monitoring of U.S. drinking water supplies for chemical and microbial contaminants should be increased, especially for vulnerable populations such as pregnant ...
Water Quality Water Quality Management Water Quality Monitoring
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Experts at the University of Birmingham are launching an interdisciplinary project called CreativeDrought to prepare rural communities in Africa for possible ...
Water Drought
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
LYNWOOD AND PICO RIVERA ARE BOTH WORKING-CLASS CHUNKS of southeastern Los Angeles County, with modest homes and well-tended lawns gone brown. But the ...
Water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
As part of an effort to develop drought-resistant food and bioenergy crops, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have ...
Agriculture
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
We’ve all seen water from sprinklers land on sidewalks or get whisked away by the wind. NMSU Extension Turfgrass Specialist Bernd Leinauer said subsurface ...
Irrigation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants across the United States may one day turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to new ...
Wastewater Use Sludge Treatment Sludge Drying Sludge Treatment & Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Global warming is likely to drive significant shifts in regional surface water availability Watch a video abstract about the study. (Will open on the ...
Water Climate Change
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
At this week’s American Geophysical Union meeting, a team of researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presented their latest research ...
Groundwater Recharge Rain Water Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The new plant application, developed by Rothamsted Research and Oxford University, could help solve the issue of increasing food insecurity across the globe. ...
Agriculture Agriculture
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A team of UC Davis students are tackling the California drought through innovative housing design with their entry for the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2017 ...
Technology Drought Integrated Infrastructure Drought-Resistant Technology Sustainability Conservation Eco-City Development Urban Design