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Abu Dhabi will need to double its current investment in desalination by 2030 to avoid a water deficit, according to a senior official from Environment Agency ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists detected microcystin—an algal toxin—in 39 percent of 75 streams assessed in the southeastern United States. These ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released DWMAPS – the Drinking Water Mapping Application to Protect Source Waters. This robust, online mapping ...
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Over the next 25 years, demand and competition for water and energy resources will increase. The world’s population is projected to grow from 7 billion to 9 ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Climate-related consequences are raising food prices, joblessness, crime, and instability. A two part article by Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue's senior ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers have developed an all-in-one platform – ScanDrop – for the rapid and specific capture, detection, and identification of bacteria in drinking water ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Study suggests that assimilable organic carbon (AOC) and free chlorine might have combined effects on microbial growth. Assimilable organic carbon (AOC) is ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Fracking well pads are six-acre plus industrial zones that concentrate many gas wells on one location. The headline flew around the globe like wild ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
While intensive farming has delivered a lot of cheap food to America, it's also delivered a lot of pollution. The nation's 330 million acres of agricultural ...
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Governments in India must enact law under criminal procedure code on persons / groups / organisations - preventing and polluting free flow of water in natural ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The global market for separation/membrane technologies is expected to reach $5 billion by 2019 with ceramic membranes “currently the most promising ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
For more than a century, the Great Lakes region has been at the heart of our country’s industrial engine. Steel mills, saw mills , foundries, and automotive ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
CLA’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenge announced the awarding of its first competitive research grants today, providing $1.2 million to 11 projects, which range ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
By 2050 climate change will increase the groundwater deficit even more for four economically important aquifers in the western U.S., reports a University of ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Undoubtedly, the recent Paris climate agreement achieved at COP 21 deserves recognition as the world’s first multilateral accord to curb climate change. But ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Jerry Mitrovica has been overturning accepted wisdom for decades. A solid Earth geophysicist at Harvard, he studies the internal structure and processes of ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When you look to the year ahead, what do you see? Ensia recently invited eight global thought leaders to share their vision for the environment as it ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A few palm trees stand strong in the salty breeze. Located on the southern tip of the Pacific island chain of Hawaii, Kamilo Beach is an isolated stretch of ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
One major threat from climate change is the rising global sea level. At the coast, the rising seas will wipe out infrastructure and threaten wildlife. If ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Children in Africa and parts of Asia are falling victim to an “invisible” epidemic—fungal toxins in food that can stunt their growth and delay their ...
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