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The Water Footprint Profiles of seven Sub-Saharan African countries: Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique and Rwanda have been released by Water ...
Technology Food Security Water Security Water Footprint Sustainable Development Water Footprint Research Integrated Watershed Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A study suggests that pharmaceuticals are polluting our rivers more than pesticides. In a research paper on pharmaceutical pollution in the rivers Aire and ...
Pollutants Micropollutants River Studies Pollution Pharmaceuticals
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Land-use practices on tropical oceanic islands can have large impacts on reef ecosystems, even in the absence of rivers and streams. Land-based pollutants, ...
Groundwater Coastal Engineering Environment Algae Groundwater Pollution Groundwater Mapping
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Paper strips laced with sugar could be the sweetest solution discovered so far to kill E. coli in contaminated water. York University engineering Professor ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Engineers at The Ohio State University are developing the foil based LEDs for portable ultraviolet (UV) lights that soldiers and others can use to purify ...
Technology Treatment UV Disinfection Purification Technology LEDs
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Alberta’s rivers are a main source of water for irrigated agriculture in Canada’s Prairie provinces. But climate change and increased human interference mean ...
River Studies Drought River Engineering Water Supply
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Faith Critzer, a food safety specialist with University of Tennessee Extension, will lead a new multistate research and outreach project to help fruit and ...
Agriculture Irrigation Treatment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Ever wondered what’s in the neighborhood pond? Technology developed by researchers at the University of Houston will allow you to test for waterborne pathogens ...
Testing Instruments Water Quality Water Quality Monitoring Technology
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Glen Canyon Dam has greatly altered the Colorado River, inundating more than 150 miles of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon and transforming the ecosystem of ...
River Studies River Engineering Water Supply Dams
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The state of Michigan is designating its section of Lake Erie as an impaired waterway because of damage to fish and other wildlife caused by harmful algal ...
Government Water Quality River Studies Algae Lake Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Droughts are a natural feature of the Australian environment. But the Millennium drought (or “Big Dry”), which ran from 1997 to 2010, was a wake-up call even ...
Government Agriculture Irrigation Drought Infrastructure
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new way to determine the rate at which nitrate pollution will make its way from groundwater ...
Fertilizers Groundwater Groundwater Pollution Groundwater Mapping Fertilizer
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A new study has found heightened concentrations of some common substances in drinking water near sites where hydraulic fracturing has taken place. The ...
Groundwater Aquifer Fracking Groundwater Pollution Aquifer Treatment Fracking Technology
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With the global population projected to reach 9 billion in 2050, demand for food is expected to increase by over 50% in 2030 and 70% in 2050. ...
Government Food Security Water Efficiency Water Security Water Charging & Pricing Water Quality Integrated Watershed Management Catchment Management Groundwater Quality & Quantity Water Conservation Environmental Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A half-share in South East Water, provider of water to more than two million customers across southern England, is up for sale for around £200 million. Two ...
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by Dr. Arvind Kumar, President- India Water Foundation
During 2015-2016, the activities conducted by India Water Foundation (IWF) were greatly influenced by momentous international developments like adoption of ...
Government Water Access Sanitation Climate Change Sustainability Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
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The four-turbine project, announced by General Electric, stores energy from the spinning blades by pumping water about 100 feet up inside the turbine ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Organica won GP Bullhound Connect Award 2016 in the Most Innovative Solution category. Connect Awards is a leading Cleantech industry event organized by GP ...
Business Energy Solutions Innovation Sustainability Business Development
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Slovenian parliament adopts amendment that declares country’s abundant clean supplies are ‘a public good managed by the state’ and ‘not a market commodity’. ...
Government Resource Management Water Access Water Law Human Rights Groundwater Resource Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
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The Dead Sea, a salt lake nestled by Israel, Jordan and the West Bank, is shrinking at an alarming rate - about 3.3 feet per year, according to the ...
Government Water Security Environment Climate Change Transboundary Water Resources Management Water Supply