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African and European researchers are employing high-tech water management research methods to help low-tech South African smallholders improve food security. ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
About 2,100 companies and individuals in California have federal permission to fly drones for farming A drone whirred to life in a cloud of dust, then shot ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
An economic model developed by UCR researchers demonstrates how blending wastewater from various treatment processes could produce irrigation water with ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The biggest threat to Indo-Gangetic basin is contamination, and the two main concerns are salinity and arsenic. The Indo-Gangetic basin accounts for about a ...
Academic Arsenic Environment Water Supply
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
UBC engineers have created a tool that will help municipalities measure water quality, as a way to ensure clean and safe drinking water is coming out of the ...
Technology Purification Decontamination Water Quality
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers have established a correlation between iron and lead, but they lack clear understanding how iron influences the release of toxic lead from pipes ...
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by Yoshimi Yoshida, Environmental Consultant
Three U.S. based non-profit organizations filed a lawsuit against General Mills on Thursday for misleading the public by labeling their Nature Valley brand ...
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U.S. communities suffer from about a quarter of a million water main breaks every year, mostly due to aging pipes. The horror of people drinking poisoned ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Analyzing the thermal capillary dynamics in a water drop could lead to a new generations of medical sensors that are able to identify abnormal cells. The ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Green bonds are among the tools available to cities as they look to raise the trillions needed to fund their sustainable growth. Climate change has become ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A forestry project in Egypt is using sewage effluent to nurture tree plantations in the desert, preventing desertification. The method has been so effective ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
International Wastewater Systems announced a joint venture with RENEW Energy Partners for the financing and installation of IWS's world-leading thermal heat ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Green Bay is retrofitting several manhole covers with high-tech monitors that will collect real-time data about water levels in its storm and sanitary sewers. ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Inadequate infrastructure and weak logistic chains substantially increase the risk that an extreme natural event will become a disaster. This is a core ...
Academic Risk Assessment Infrastructure Risk Management Disaster Management Risk Analysis
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A cocktail of biological pesticides and synthetic predator cues very well be the future of mosquito control. Mosquitoes continue to build resistance to ...
Academic Public Health Malaria Pesticides
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Two studies are first-of-their-kind examinations of PFAA levels in “sentinel” reptile species, especially useful for investigating the impacts of long-lived ...
Academic Environment Contaminant Movement Mapping Chemical Materials
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The whitefly is an invasive species, resistant to pesticides, and it spreads viruses that can destroy crops. The whitefly is kind of cute looking as far as ...
Academic Crop Farming Herbicides Pesticides
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Speed speeds up aquatic insect emergence, stunts biofilms, changes bacterial & diatom communities Pharmaceutical and illicit drugs are present in streams in ...
Academic Wastewater Treatment River Studies Pollution Infrastructure Environment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
NOAA and its partners have developed a new forecasting tool to simulate how water moves throughout the nation’s rivers and streams, paving the way for the ...
Technology River Studies Flood Management Flood Modeling Hydrology Flood prediction
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Underground radar technology developed at Louisiana Tech is helping to document underground infrastructure damage that has gone undetected following Katrina. ...
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