Groundwater Levels Plunge, Contamination Rises
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Academic Groundwater Drought Groundwater Pollution
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Coal Ash Pond Water Treatment
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Virginia- Dominion agrees to enhanced treatment of coal ash wastewater, testing of fish After certain conditions were reached, an appeal has been dropped ...
Academic Wastewater Use Wastewater Treatment Environmental Science
Over US$180 million invested at That Luang Marsh project, Laos | Open Development Mekong
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by Yoshimi Yoshida, Environmental Consultant
Concerning Lao People's Democratic Republic: China exploits Lao natural resources. Over US$180 million has been spent so far on building infrastructure ...
Biodiversity Sustainable Investments
There’s a Cancer-Causing Chemical in My Drinking Water, But California Isn’t Regulating It
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
According to the State Water Resources Control Board, 1,2,3-TCP has been found in about a hundred public water systems across California, mostly in the Central ...
Decontamination Water Quality Water Quality Management Water Quality Monitoring
Where We Agree: Building Consensus on Solutions to California’s Urban Water Challenges
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
During 2015, the Pacific Institute, in partnership with the California-Nevada Section of the American Water Works Association, UC Berkeley Water Center, and UC ...
Policy Water Supply Governance & Planning
Algae Bloom Devastates Chilean Salmon Farms—2.3 Million Dead Salmon
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Earlier this year, warming ocean waters off the coast of southern Chile spurred an algal bloom that devastatedsalmon farms lining Patagonia’s picturesque ...
Business Environment Algae Fish Farming
UN Calls On Canada To Fix First Nations Water Crisis
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The United Nations and at least one NGO have called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to address water issues in Canada's First Nations, citing human rights and ...
Public Health Human Rights
Future of Desalination Industry Innovation May Rest on Conwed’s 3D Printed Feed Spacers
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Water: Without interference by humans, it’s meant to be a pure substance that makes up around 70 percent of the Earth, with most of it contained in the ...
Technology Membranes Desalination
Scrubbing Water Clean—Nano Technology-Based Solutions
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Industry, pollution and the growing population together increasingly constitute both the demand for and scarcity of clean water. While river-fed sources are ...
Academic Purification Nanotechnology
Global warming increases rain in world's driest areas
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Global warming will increase rainfall in some of the world's driest areas over land, with not only the wet getting wetter but the dry getting wetter as well – ...
Climate Induced Hazard Environment
Lead in the water: A corrosive danger lurks in U.S. water wells
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers from Penn State Extension and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, or Virginia Tech, tested private well systems in their states ...
Public Health Groundwater Water Wells
Climate change, dams, deforestation a vicious cycle for Amazon rivers, lakes
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Dams, mining, land-cover changes, and climate change are degrading the streams, rivers, lakes, and forests of the world’s largest river basin at ...
Environment
Improving MBR Flux: Ultrafiltration With a Twist—Helix Membrane Technology
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
About the Helix flux-enhancing technology The Helix technology has been developed to harness the energy contained in the crossflow and, at low crossflow ...
Membrane Bioreactor Systems Membranes Wastewater Treatment Water Treatment Solutions Membrane Technology
Desalination Engineering - Planning and Design
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by Nikolay Voutchkov, Water Globe Consulting, LLC - President
Book providing detailed overview of state of the art of desalination project planning and design. An in-depth guide to reverse osmosis desalination by ...
Academic Desalination
Texas Draft 2017 Water Plan
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Texas Draft 2017 Water Plan Out for Comments The Texas Water Development Board announced March 8 that the public comment period for the Draft 2017 State ...
Government Scarcity Conservation Water Safety Plan
Virginia Students Arrested During Water Ptotest
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
17 Students Arrested In Protest Against Dumping Coal Ash Wastewater Into Rivers Seventeen college students protesting for clean water were arrested in ...
Social Wastewater Disposal Toxins Contaminant Control
Hydroponic Feed Stock
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
US Rancher develops hydroponic feed As many stories of innovation start, Dihl Grohs knew there had to be a better way. That was about four years ago, when ...
Technology Agriculture Hydroponics Solutions
Hyflux Secures US$500m Project for Desalination
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Hyflux secures US$500m project for desalination, power plant in Egypt The desalination plant is designed to produce 150,000 cubic metres of water per day, ...
Business Desalination Water Management Energy
New study indicates sea level rise threatens larger number of people than earlier estimated
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
More people live close to sea coast than earlier estimat ed, assess researchers in a new study. Rising sea level threatens larger number of people that ...
Coastal Engineering Climate Change Flood damage Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assesment
Despite Having Robust Economic Growth, India is Backward in Healthcare, Sanitation, & Drinking Water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
How India struggles to get the basics right A quick glance at the 283-page report reveals that the result of poor maternal and infant healthcare is a life ...
Government Public Health Sanitation & Hygiene Public Health