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"Regatta H2O: Familiar Form, Chameleon Infrastructure" is the winner of a site-specific environmental competition called the Land Art Generator Initiative. ...
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As wastewater plants face tighter regulations and more stringent discharge limits, the landscape for landfill leachate treatment is changing. Landfill ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In Miami, the sea is expected to rise a foot perhaps as soon as 2040, and reach 5 feet as early as 2080. Within 100 years, it could wash over most of Miami ...
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Water scarcity is a huge global problem, affecting about 3 billion people around the world each year. However, a team of researchers from the University of ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A NASA analysis of a 2015 Texas flood is the first to document the full life cycle and impacts of a flood on both land and ocean. Using data from NASA's Soil ...
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Most Americans take safe water for granted: Turn the tap, and there it is. But recent protests against the Dakota Access pipeline on the Standing Rock ...
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The board of directors of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced that it approved $19.53 million in grants during the third quarter of 2016. For more than ...
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Changes in ocean temperature affect a key species of phytoplankton, according to scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) funded by the ...
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Car maker announces a new goal to cut water use per vehicle by 72 per cent in the next four years, compared with 2000. Ford has announced a new goal to ...
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Scientists have accidentally discovered a way to reverse the combustion process, turning carbon dioxide back into a fuel. Researchers at the Oak Ridge ...
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NASA's torpedo-like probes are getting better data on the ice being lapped away by sea water. Those submarines are part of NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland ...
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Calcium deficient fauna, poor conditions for freshwater fish and mercury in the drinking water is the long-term consequences of acid rain in the 70ies and ...
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New research led by Portland State University glacier scientist Andrew Fountain reveals how a single warming event in Antarctica may be an indication of ...
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Xylem, an American water technology company, opened its manufacturing facility in Jebel Ali as part of its US$35 million investment in the region. The 19,000 ...
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The New Urban Agenda proposes guidelines for building "just, safe, healthy, accessible, affordable, resilient, and sustainable" cities for all. Global ...
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Sonnen, the German energy storage start-up, has raised $85m in a fourth fundraising round as it seeks to expand its business and attract more customers on to ...
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Traditionally, cities have relied on gray stormwater infrastructure — conventional piped drainage systems — to move urban stormwater away from the built ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Washington State University biologist Mechthild Tegeder has developed a way to dramatically increase the yield and quality of soybeans. Her greenhouse-grown ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A new study says that human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the U.S. West over the last 30 years. According to the ...
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High-load anaerobic digestion provides a flexible solution that cuts power consumption by 20 percent, generates over half of the required electricity on site ...
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