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At the rate humans are emitting carbon into the atmosphere, Earth may suffer irreparable damage that could last tens of thousands of years, according to a new ...
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Sustainable development is a tricky thing. At least 140 million people in Asia are drinking arsenic-contaminated water, and the ever-expanding use of ...
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The El Nino weather phenomenon, one of the worst in 50 years, has caused intense drought in southern Africa that will have a "devastating" impact on the ...
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To gather this information, researchers are developing sensors to measure seawater carbon content, acidity, the concentration of nutrients such as nitrates ...
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An estimated 4 billion people face severe water scarcity at least one month a year, researchers have found, and nearly half of them live in China and India. ...
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What will be, once completed, the first geothermal power plant in Canada, is now under construction in Saskatchewan, according to recent reports. The planned ...
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The counsellor-delegate of the Spanish Elecnor Foundation, Rafael MartÃn de Bustamante Vegas, said last Monday, in Luanda, that the project involving his ...
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Missouri S&T student earns awards for tracking nanoparticles in water Ariel Donovan, a graduate student in chemistry at Missouri University of Science and ...
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The Auckland Council stated in its pacifying document that it used "highly accurate GPS application technology to apply bait" The truth is that GPS ...
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The Water Quality Association (WQA) and the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) announced that a new 2015 version of WQA/ASPE/ANSI S-803: ...
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Students from the University of Michigan are developing a low-cost way to increase crop yield and reduce the use of fertilizers for Indian farmers In a ...
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New measurements from a NASA satellite have allowed researchers to identify and quantify, for the first time, how climate-driven increases of liquid water ...
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Australian wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy has started its Mauritius wave and microgrid design project. The project, which will be delivered on ...
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SGD occurs when groundwater seeps out of the seabed into the coastal ocean. SGD is often brackish as a result of fresh groundwater from land mixing with salty ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition— SCADA—systems have been around for over half a century providing real time data from the field to operators. Over ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A collaboration between researchers at the Institute for EthnoMedicine and the University of Miami Brain Endowment Bank revealed that chronic exposure to an ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Over the course of single day, an average American household sends an entire tank of hot water down the drain—and all of the energy it took to warm it ends up ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Much has been made of the gap in knowledge to come when the water industry’s aging workforce reaches retirement. With advances in simulation training software ...
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The effects that climate change could have on the future availability and quality of fresh water are growing concern for experts and the society as a whole. ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The world must increase its usable water supply and effectively manage water demand. These are the key findings in a new report from Rabobank The report ...
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