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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The North Sea is one of the most intensively sailed seas in the world, with more than 120,000 ship movements each year, according to Simon Walmsley, marine ...
Social Research Environment
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Coalition of Jakarta Residents Opposing Water Privatization (KMMSAJ) filed a lawsuit against city water operator PAM Jaya and its foreign partners over the ...
Government Advocacy
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
International water-treatment plant special- ist Degrémont is in the process of introducing new water technologies into Africa to tackle the challenge of ...
Technology Environment
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Last month Ethiopia started diverting the waters of the Blue Nile in order to build the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a $4.7 billion, 6000Mw hydroelectric ...
Non Profit Environment
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Water companies in Singapore are attracting big-name investors as they profit from exporting their expertise to China, which plans to spend $850 billion over ...
Business Food & Beverage
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The University of Waterloo announced a$1.75 millioncommitment from RBC Foundation to support development of a new graduate study program in Integrated Water ...
Academic Training
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The mightyDanubeis not the only river in Europe bursting its banks this week, but it packs the biggest punch. Winding 2,850 kilometers (1,777 miles) across 10 ...
Non Profit Flood Management
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Dr. Peter Morgan has been named the 2013 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for his work to protect the health and lives of millions of people through improved ...
Social Environment
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has set up 15 aquaponic urban farms in Gaza City to curb growing food insecurity. The project is one of ...
Technology Irrigation
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Phosphorus enters the wastewater system via human excrement, detergents and other cleaning products. If left untreated phosphorus can promote eutrophication ...
Technology Fertilizer
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Jordan faces a deepening water crisis, exacerbated by climate change, regional conflict, immigration, and poor governance. Its people are among the most ...
Government Climate Change
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Groundwater quality in nearly 60 percent of monitoring sites in 198 cities has been measured as poor, according to a report released by the Ministry of Land ...
Government
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The average bill in England has leapt from £129 in 1989 to around £388 now and even after inflation, bills have shot up by 50%.The finding comes in a study by ...
Business Organization Type Industry Association
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by David Butler, Director of Operations
Much of the world is parched. Last summer, just under 56% of the contiguous United States was experiencing drought conditions, the most extensive area in the ...
Social Policy
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Researchers in South Africa have fabricated and tested a nanotube-infused membrane which could be used to treat polluted wastewater such as oil-containing ...
Technology Purification
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Amid sharply partisan exchanges over guns, immigration and the federal budget, the debate that began in the Senate this week over a water resources bill seems ...
Government Policy
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
As recently as 20 years ago, there were an estimated 50,000 rivers in China, each covering a flow area of at least 60 square miles. But now, according to ...
Social Water Supply
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Commercialisation is perhaps water tech's greatest challenge and where change can have the greatest impact. While the gravity, breadth, and variance of water ...
Business Technology Finance and Markets
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Bee'ah - the Middle East's largest and award winning waste management company - and Suez Environnement, through its subsidiary SITA - one of the top world ...
Business Treatment
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
China's Environmental Protection Ministry has fined 88 businesses in the northern part of the country for polluting groundwater sources. A spokesman told ...
Business Public Health