Ocean Oases: How Islands Support More Sea-life
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A 60 year-old theory to explain why seas surrounding islands and atolls are particularly productive has just been proven by a marine biologist from Bangor ...
Academic Environment Climate Change
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Disease, Warming Oceans Rock Lobster and Sea Star Populations
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Two new Cornell University studies show how diverse marine organisms are susceptible to diseases made worse by warming oceans. The first study warns that ...
Academic Environment Climate Change
Millennia of Sea-level Change
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How has global sea level changed in the past millennia? And how will it change in this century and in the coming millennia? What part do humans play? Several ...
Academic Environment Climate Change
DPR Becoming Palatable For California Public
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The prospect of introducing direct potable reuse in California is gaining momentum, fueled by the relentlessness of the state’s record drought. “The idea of ...
Business Reuse Drinking Water Water & Wastewater
New York City Waterways Teeming With Microplastic
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A new study shows that the waterways around New York City are teeming with plastics, including microbeads pollution. “The study estimated there are at least ...
Government Environment Pollution Water Supply
Water Data Smackdown Meet The Top 10 Innovators
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Imagine H2O recently announced the 10 finalists from more than 90 worldwide entrants to its Water Data Challenge. The 10 companies have already achieved a ...
Business Technology Water Management
Oklahoma Earthquake Likely Caused by Wastewater Injection
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A moderate, magnitude-4.4 earthquake has shaken northern Oklahoma. It was one of the stronger temblors the earthquake-prone state has had this year. There ...
Academic Fracking Water & Wastewater
New Study Details the Searing Future of Extreme Heat
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Heat waves that typically strike once every 20 years could become yearly events across 60 percent of Earth's land surface by 2075, if greenhouse gas emissions ...
Academic Climate Change
Earth Is Warming 50x Faster than When It Comes Out of An Ice Age
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Recently, The Guardian reported on a significant new study published in Nature Climate Change, finding that even if we meet our carbon reduction targets and ...
Academic Environment Climate Change
Water That Heals
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
It was once a land where ground water was so contaminated by arsenic that many who drank it turned dark with its poison. Today, the same villagers are making ...
Academic Arsenic Purification
Contaminated Groundwater Concerns Mount in Minnesota
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Groundwater contamination is a growing concern that should be on everyone’s radar, according to MPCA scientists. Three out of four Minnesotans get their ...
Academic Public Health Groundwater Groundwater Pollution
How the Flint River got so toxic
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The Flint water crisis did not begin on April 25th, 2014, when the city switched its water supply from Detroit’s system, tapping Lake Huron to its own on the ...
Academic Pollution Water Supply
Convincing The Public Of Potable Reuse
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The general public has a long history of fearing what it does not understand. The unknown threatens our perception of the world, it threatens our security, ...
Academic Potable Water Reuse & Recycling Reuse
What California can learn from Australia's millennium drought
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Lessons learned during Australia’s worst drought on record are helping California through its own water crisis. A new report released today shows that ...
Academic Drought Conservation
Midsize Desalination Projects
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
You probably have to dig pretty deeply if you’re researching the state of the market for midsize desalination and otherwater treatment projects. Until about ...
Business Treatment Desalination
Special Report: Toxic Firefighting Foam Has Contaminated U.S. Drinking Water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
ORI CERVERA HAD ALWAYS been an active person. She liked camping, playing outdoors with her kids, and practically lived in her running shoes. She didn’t have ...
Social Water Quality Groundwater Groundwater Pollution
Natural Spring Water May Taste Great, But That Doesn't Make It Safe to Drink
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Natural spring water may taste great, but that doesn't make it safe to drink. Many people enjoy collecting and drinking “natural” spring water from springs ...
Academic Water Quality Spring Water Supply
How Northern European Waters Soak up Carbon Dioxide
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The seas around the UK and the rest of northern Europe take up a staggering 24 million tonnes of carbon each year It is a mass equivalent to two million ...
Academic Research Environment Carbon
Paragon wins NASA Contract for Water System
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Technology developed by a Tucson company may soon be purifying water on the International Space Station and, eventually, as part of future deep-space ...
Technology Innovation Purification Technology
Phoenix Water Treatment Tech Startup Sold in Potentially Million Dollar Deal
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A Phoenix-based technology startup that focuses on water treatment, has been sold to a New York-based company in a deal that could potentially be worth more ...
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