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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offers a historic opportunity to set a new course for the next era of global human development – one that promises ...
Social Water Resources Conservation Sustainability Climate Change Integrated Watershed Management Transboundary Water Resources Management Climate Change Adaptation Sustainable Sanitation Water Security Climate Change Resilience Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
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by Heather Jepsen, Vice President of Operations at EcoloBlue, Inc
CBC News reports that officials from Health Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs and a group of engineers will be coming to Potlotek First ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Water Network team had the pleasure to interview Lauren Guy, CTO & Co-Founder of Utilis Ltd. Utilis Ltd. has developed a cost-effective software solution ...
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Last month, California’s Water Resources Control Board took the easy way out on water conservation. In 2015, California nearly met Governor Brown’s mandatory ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Last month India’s technology hub, Bengaluru, was to be shut down after violent protests broke out over distribution of water. Two people were killed and ...
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Singapore launched its Climate Innovation Challenge 2016, which involved a 36-hour hackathon to promote innovative, cost-effective green solutions that ...
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Amid rising demand for water and depleting reserves, a senior scientist and member of the Atomic Energy Commission today said strong political will and ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Washington State University researchers say the world’s reservoirs are an underappreciated source of greenhouse gases, producing the equivalent of roughly 1 ...
Reservoir Greenhouse Gases
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The thousands of miles of aging, corroding pipes that bring water to Americans each day may be home to dangerous drug-resistant bacteria, a new report warns. ...
Treatment Purification Water Quality
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
We are heading into a post-antibiotic era, where common infections could once again be deadly. A phenomenon known as antimicrobial resistance threatens the ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A treatment developed at The University of Queensland to control sewer odour and corrosion is set for the international market. Researchers from The ...
Sewage Corrosion Prevention Sewer Networks
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A specific strain of the fungus, Fusarium oxysporum , circulates in the water distribution systems of five French hospitals, in two widely separated cities. ...
Water Quality Water Quality Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A relatively low-tech method of imitating a natural marshland was implemented to help clean freshwater ponds contaminated by stormwater runoff. This ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A company started by two Illinois Tech scientists has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2016 Cleantech Open Accelerator Program. The company, AquaGrow ...
Aquaculture Aquafarming Waste Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
More than 700,000 microscopic fibres could be released into waste water during each use of a domestic washing machine, with many of them likely to pass through ...
Environment Pollution
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A new study using aerial imagery across the state of California has found that converting land to grow almonds between 2007 and 2014 has led to a 27% annual ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Dr. Yongheng Huang, from Texas A&M University, is working to develop cost-effective water treatment technologies to meet industrial, agricultural and domestic ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Overpumping in Dhaka may threaten regional groundwater resources outside the city A new paper by the University of Delaware’s Holly Michael and Mahfuzur Khan ...
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Protests threaten to unseat Mugabe government, while four million people face hunger. The Runde River flows through southeastern Zimbabwe, where rainfall ...
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This publication was compiled by the Integrated Drought Management Programme in the Horn of Africa (IDMP HOA). The aim is to share lessons learned from ...
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