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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The recent disaster in Flint, Mich., where contamination rendered public water unsafe to drink and disturbed the sleep of many citizens — not just those who ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The situation of lead-contaminated water in Flint, Michigan, is fundamentally about human rights, a group of United Nations experts today said, urging the ...
Academic Treatment Human Rights
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur has developed an ultra-low cost eco-friendly laterite based arsenic filter for providing safe drinking ...
Filtration Technology Filtration
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers have developed nano-scaled membranes that could potentially filter contaminants out of water faster and cheaper than current methods. Baoxia Mi, ...
Academic Filtration Nanotechnology Filtration Nano Materials
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The interactive Innovation forum, sponsored by aqualia, featured short presentations by panellists, relating to innovation in the water sector. These were ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In areas that undergo rapid urbanization in low-income countries the safe management of wastewater and fecal sludge is vital to ensure the health of the ...
Water & Sanitation Sanitation & Hygiene Sanitation and Hygiene
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Excessive growth of bacteria in the small intestine could be damaging the gut of young children, leading to stunting, scientists from the U.S. and Bangladesh ...
Social Public Health Sanitation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A quick, cheap and highly efficient method for producing a water-purifying chemical has been developed by researchers at Cardiff University. The team, from ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Academic Wave & Tidal Energy Wave Energy Wave & Tidal Energy
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Greenland’s vast ice sheet is in the grip of a dramatic “feedback loop” where the surface has been getting darker and less reflective of the sun, helping ...
Academic Environment Glacier Climate Change
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Renewable hydropower generated from desalination plants and other existing infrastructure would bring economic and environmental benefits to our biggest ...
Academic Desalination Renewable Energy
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Potentially affected health care facilities should evaluate current management practices, evaluate best management practices for regulated facilities, and ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
What makes these toilets even more user-friendly is that they can be located through an Android app called eToilet. Through it, Chennai residents can find ...
Non Profit Sanitation Sanitation & Hygiene Sanitation and Hygiene
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The presence of filamentous fungi in drinking water has become an area worthy of investigation with various studies now being published. The problems ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The scientists reconstructed the Mediterranean’s drought history by studying tree rings as part of an effort to understand the region's climate and what ...
Academic Climate Induced Hazard Drought Climate Change
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Every hour, a multitude of chemicals complete their use life in homes, agricultural fields and industries and flood into the environment. The ultimate fate ...
Academic Technology Environment Pesticides
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Agricultural fertiliser could pose risk to human fertility, sheep study finds Eating meat from animals grazed on land treated with commonly-used agricultural ...
Academic Fertilizers Wastewater Disposal Sludge Treatment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
That's the conclusion of a study that suggests a fourfold rise in the amount of mineral and organic phosphorus needed on grasslands by 2050. Grasslands ...
Academic Aquatic Environment Fertilizer Research
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
You know that greenhouse gases are changing the climate. You probably know drinking water is becoming increasingly scarce, and that we’re living through ...
Academic Fertilizers Crop Farming Fertilizer Fertilizer
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers from UPM are involved in the development of a mobile phone application that allows user to share information about floods and their effects aiming ...
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