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Waste water, pesticide run-off and pollution threatens people across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Regulation, data and business action are needed. A week ...
Social Environment Ecosystem Management Pollution Freshwater Integrated Watershed Management Aquatic Environment Catchment Management Water Governance Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Council of Canadians launches new Boycott Nestlé campaign in response to company’s continued water grabs. Corporate giant Nestlé continued its privatization ...
Business Water Access Water Supply Privatization Community Bottling
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On the night of 31 August, Mandya, a district on the banks of the fast-depleting Cauvery river in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, received heavy rains ...
Social Water Cooperation & Conflict Drought Sustainable Water Resource Management Water Conservation
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A key aspect of managing demand for water is ensuring populations use their existing water supplies as efficiently as possible before plans are made to expand ...
Government Agriculture Public Health Treatment Policy Environment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University have developed a device for the rapid analysis of liquids on the content of hazardous substances Polytechnicers ...
Technology Contaminant Removal Water Quality
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The classic suburban challenge of keeping the lawn green sparked the idea behind Sprinkl, a startup led by Noel Geren. Two years ago, the serial entrepreneur ...
Startups Irrigation Scheduling Irrigation Design Water Conservation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The protein, called Dsup for damage suppressor, was added to human cells growing in culture. When those cells were exposed to powerful radiation, they ...
Public Health Research
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The solvents currently used to remove specific metals from water all have disadvantages: safety risks are high, the process is slow, they are expensive or not ...
Chemical Analysis Solvents Pulp & Paper
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled residents and damaged buildings in East Texas in 2012 was triggered by the injection of large volumes of wastewater ...
Water-Energy Nexus Fracking Fracking Technology
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Research with flood-affected children reveals serious impacts on well-being but also a desire to take on a role in flood risk management. Lancaster University ...
Public Health Human Rights Flood management Flood damage Public Health
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
With California in its fifth year of severe drought and many western states experiencing another year of unusually dry conditions, plants are ...
Agriculture
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When there are no data due to a lack of hydrometric station, interviews to neighbours and air photographs of water environment are the effective methods to ...
River Studies
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When Roxanne Moore got up to make her morning coffee a few weeks ago, she turned on the faucet and got a burst of water — then nothing came out but air. That ...
Groundwater Aquifer Drought Water Wells Well Drilling
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the U.S., which makes for a perky population — but it also creates a lot of used grounds. Scientists now report in ...
Purification Filtration Decontamination Filtration Solutions Contaminant Removal
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
An initial study by University of Texas at Arlington chemists of well water quality in the Eagle Ford Shale region found some abnormal chloride/bromide ratios, ...
Contaminant Removal Pollution Water-Energy Nexus
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Results of recent private water well screenings in five South Texas counties underscored the importance of regular testing of private water wells, said a Texas ...
Public Health Contaminant Removal Water Quality Human Rights Water Wells
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In California's Central Valley, where verdant fields of fruit and vegetables unfurl under sunny skies, the water that feeds them -- and flows into taps across ...
Agriculture Public Health Agricultural Human Rights
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Edgar Serralde Galicia lives in a part of Mexico City known for water: Xochimilco, where picturesque canals have irrigated produce grown on man-made islands ...
Rainwater Harvesting Water Supply
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A researcher from The University of Manchester has developed a free tool to help scientists and policymakers to manage agricultural water use and improve crop ...
Irrigation Drought Climate Change Crop Farming Irrigation Management Irrigation Scheduling
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A United Kingdom-based firm has unveiled what it called a “major new green plastics technology” which it claimed has the potential to transform mainstream ...
Technology Polymers & Plastics Plastics Packaging