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Irish Water plans €5.5bn spend in next five yearsmhas borrowed €200m and seeks 500,000 boxes for water meters The loan, which is to the company's parent ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The world’s first research facility aimed at finding a way to grow food as well as biofuels using desert land irrigated with seawater has opened in Abu Dhabi. ...
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While there are many technologies out there than can effectively remove salt from water to make it drinkable, most are expensive and rely heavily on ...
Technology Technology Solar Desalination Sustainable Desalination
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Wet wipes as strong as "kevlar" are blocking toilets across Sydney, says veteran plumber Ken Johnston, who manually removed a 12-metre-block of wipes that a ...
Sewage Sewer Networks
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ABSTRACT: In current process models activated sludge consists of biodegradable and unbiodegradable organic fractions. Recent evidence suggests that this ...
Sludge Treatment Sludge Management Wastewater Treatment Research
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The water meter buried in your front yard isn't exactly the most cutting-edge piece of technology. While they are accurate, most residential water meters are ...
Academic Meter Optimisation Data Management Smart Metering (AMI)
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Climate mitigation efforts in the energy system could lead to increasing pressure on water resources, according to a new study published in the journal ...
Academic Resource Management Greenhouse Gases Greenhouse Gas Reduction
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows that hormones found in birth control pills alter the genes in fish, which can cause changes in ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Abstract: China has become the largest mineral phosphorus (P) fertilizer consumer in the world, but current use is not sustainable. Here, we report on a ...
Agrochemicals Agricultural Research
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Promo VIDEO With irrigation topping the water agenda of late, it’s no wonder Outpost Central won the WA Innovator award for its soil-moisture monitoring ...
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Millions of tiny pieces of plastic are escaping wastewater treatment plant filters and winding up in rivers where they could potentially contaminate drinking ...
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Global warming and the intense El Niño now underway are prolonging the longest global coral die-off on record, according to NOAA scientists monitoring and ...
Academic Climate Change Research
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A group of leading U.S. technology experts from across the corporate, government and academic sectors issued a joint “call to action” to develop a ...
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Climate change appears to present a direct challenge to stormwater management, according to the latest research. “Two different studies published [in ...
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When the wind whips up a dust storm in Asia, there is a reasonable chance that the sand will be blown to the Arctic. Now a study has shown the route that ...
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Scientists from the US and Australia have direct evidence that the increasing acidity of the oceans is slowing the growth of coral reefs. In the first-ever ...
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The combustion of fossil fuels drives the world's energy production, but it also emits carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases. In recent years, ...
Academic Research Algae
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The Puget Sound, the waterway along the northwestern coast of Washington that borders Seattle, is thick with drug residue from treated wastewater, and the ...
Academic Pollution Research
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Sometimes aging infrastructure makes smart meter installation difficult. In Silver City, NM, officials are running into this challenge during a smart meter ...
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