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As America's population grows, people and businesses continue to settle in places that used to be left alone, damaging some of the natural systems that ...
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UVC LEDs decrease the footprint for drinking water. More than 660 million people lack access to clean drinking water. This intensifying problem due to ...
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A new NASA study finds that the recent drought that began in 1998 in the eastern Mediterranean Levant region, which comprises Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, ...
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Fearing widespread water scarcity, companies and governments around the world are scoping out desalination technologies to convert seawater to potable water. ...
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The drought in the Colorado River Basin in the 21st century has been phenomenal. There was that harrowing year of 2002, which broke records for low ...
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If zero liquid discharge (ZLD) is too costly, water reuse and sustainability can still be prioritized and realized through minimal liquid discharge (MLD). As ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
At every treatment plant there loom still, silent colossi that are integral to the facility but never make a fuss. It may seem that a storage tank is doing ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A new study of emerging contaminants entering Puget Sound in wastewater plant effluent found some of the nation’s highest concentrations of these chemical ...
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Technology Leaders Identify Imminent Threats to U.S. Water Security and Call for Comprehensive Strategy to Map a Secure Water Future for the Nation Today, a ...
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A new way of predicting the onset of rogue waves, also known as killer waves, has been developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ...
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It has been an ‘absurdly warm’ winter in the Arctic this year, as temperatures within 200 miles of the North Pole peaked above freezing Rapidly disappearing ...
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Further expansion of cotton and nut production in the next five years is tipped to put significant pressure on water demand in the southern Murray-Darling ...
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Kenya-Israel partnership will make the country water secure “Over 3,000 years ago not many kilometres from West of Kibbutz Kalia near the Dead Sea, the ...
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New research reveals the value and economics of direct potable reuse (DPR), as well as how to get started. The prolonged and ongoing drought in California ...
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Phosphorus removal is near the top of the list of concerns for most UK wastewater utilities at the moment, thanks to the requirements of the Water Framework ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Everywhere he goes, Anthony Ambrose sees the dead and dying. They haunt this city’s streets, the browning yards of stylish homes, the scenic grounds of the ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers in the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering are coordinating an EU LIFE Programme to explore the possibility of ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Bacteria may light up the future. Glowee , a start-up company based in Paris, France, is developing bioluminescent lights to illuminate shop fronts and ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
One resident called 911 asking whether the village’s water would burn his skin off. Families have lined up to have their blood drawn and their wells tested. ...
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