Israeli Researchers Link Heart Disease to Desalination Through Lack of Magnesium
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Public Health Desalination
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22 Bottled Water Brands in Pakistan Found 'Unsafe'
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
About 22 brands of bottled water being sold in different cities are unsafe for human consumption and may cause various diseases, says a government survey The ...
Academic Public Health Human Rights Bottled Water Water Quality Monitoring
The global ties that bind water, food and climate
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Tara Troy, assistant professor of water resources engineering, takes a very macro-level approach to her field of study. “You can’t think about water in ...
Agriculture Water Supply Crop Farming Sustainable Agriculture
NASA Creates Web Portal Dedicated to Sea Level Rise
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Sea level rise is a critical global issue affecting millions across our planet. A new Web portal developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, ...
Coastal Engineering Environment Coastal Flood Modeling Sea Level Rise Risk Perception Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assesment
Dynamic Model Helps Understand Healthy Lakes to Heal Sick Ones
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Development of a dynamic model for microbial populations in healthy lakes could help scientists understand what’s wrong with sick lakes, prescribe cures and ...
Research Microbiology Lake Management
Report shows how to say goodbye to harmful algal blooms
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Harmful algal blooms dangerous to human health and the Lake Erie ecosystem—such as the one that shut down Toledo’s water supply for two days in 2014—could ...
Agriculture Watershed Management Watershed Algae
Oil and Gas Wastewater Disposal May Increase Endocrine Disrupting Activity in Surface Water...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to release natural gas and oil from ...
Public Health Groundwater Water-Energy Nexus Groundwater Pollution
Microbes take center stage in workings of 'the river's liver'
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When water levels in rivers rise, an area known as the "river's liver" kicks into action, cleansing river water of pollutants and altering the flow of ...
Hydrology Microbiology Groundwater Water Cycle River Studies Habitat Freshwater Climate Change Hydrogeology Integrated Watershed Management River Basin management
A comprehensive review of constraints to improved management of fertilizers in China...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Highlights Causes of inefficient fertilizer use in China are complex. Influencing factors span from national politics to farm household behaviour. A ...
Fertilizers Environment Crop Farming Fertilizer Fertilizer
Vertical underwater farming- a Fishermans story
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Ocean farmers are using technology to start an economic revolution and save humanity. I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of ...
Business Fish Farming Fish Food
Water on Campus Tested After Concerns About Lead Content
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by Vishakha Rajput, Previous COO The Water Network at AquaSPE AG
After concerns about high levels of lead in water in the Lehigh Valley, Lehigh University collected water samples from residence halls and academic buildings ...
Academic Decontamination Contaminant Removal Contaminants
IOT Driving Smart Agriculture
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling data-driven smart agriculture The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling data-driven smart agriculture. The IoT is a ...
Academic Agriculture
Decreasing Network Pressure to Minimise Leakage
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
With reducing leakage a priority for UK utilities, calming the network with the correct use of valves can make all the difference, writes Mark Hodgens Fixing ...
Academic Leakage Infrastructure Leakage Reduction
Report: EPA must do more to ensure safe water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
More than three-quarters of small community water systems across the nation with the most serious health-related violations of federal safe drinking-water ...
Public Health Water Quality Monitoring
India’s looming water wars can destroy everything, from “Make in India” to smart cities
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Latur, Maharashtra The drought killed Mahakant Mali. The 52-year-old soybean farmer left home under the pretext of getting water from the field behind his ...
Public Health Drought Human Rights Water Risk
Stormwater Discharges from Construction Activities | US EPA
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
EPA's Proposed 2017 Construction General Permit (CGP): Stormwater Discharges from Construction Activities EPA is preparing to reissue the Construction ...
Stormwater Management Stormwater Storm Water Management Stormwater Runoff
The Deepening Story of How Climate Change Threatens Human Health
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
This is a joint blog from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, EPA, the U.S. Surgeon General, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
Public Health Pollution Climate Change
Nepotism and Neglect | Millions of people in Bangladesh still drinking arsenic-laced water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Nearly 20 million Bangladeshis are still drinking water poisoned with high levels of arsenic despite millions of wells being tested and hundreds of thousands ...
Public Health Groundwater Human Rights Water Supply
Global Gray Water Footprint & Water Pollution Related to Anthropogenic Nitrogen Loads to Fresh Water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Abstract This is the first global assessment of nitrogen-related water pollution in river basins with a specification of the pollution by economic sector, and ...
Agriculture Research Environment Crop Farming Animal Husbandry Fertilizer Fertilizers and Pesticides Research Soil Management
Wastewater Becomes a Resource in Silicon Valley
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The drought has highlighted the need to conserve water, but it is also spurring interest in recycling water to increase supply. Silicon Valley could be poised ...
Reclaimed Wastewater Water Reuse & Recycling Wastewater Treatment Groundwater Reuse