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Engineers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a new way to recover almost 100 percent of the water from highly concentrated salt ...
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The emerging field of plasmonics could bring advances in chemical manufacturing, usher in new clean and sustainable technologies and desalination systems to ...
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Stanford Earth's Rosemary Knight recently spearheaded a project to map underground freshwater resources and forecast the intrusion of saltwater into aquifers ...
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eleven-x™, operator of Canada’s first and only coast-to-coast LoRaWAN™ Low Power Wide Area Network, announced a new Smart City development project with the ...
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A prestigious new visitor centre in the heart of the UK's Northumberland National Park will benefit from a specially designed package modular WPL HiPAF ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Water Network team had the pleasure to interview Ng Wun Jern, Executive Director of Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute, about his interest in ...
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Water table depth and groundwater flow are vital to understanding the amount of water that plants transmit to the atmosphere. . The Science Plants are one ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In summer 2010, Los Angeles was losing about 100 gallons of water per person per day to the atmosphere through the evaporation and plant uptake of lawns and ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Seawater in Egypt could be turned into drinking water using biomass energy as a source of heat in a new collaborative project from academics at the University ...
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ARTICLE The High Plains Aquifer: Can We Make It Last? Boulder, Colorado, USA: The heart of the United States is a highly productive agricultural region. This ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) reveals that residents of the Mid-Ohio River Valley had higher than normal levels of perfluorooctanoic ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Prof. Boris Rybtchinski and his group have developed a new type of membrane that could extend the life of a separation system, lower its cost and, in some ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Flooding is currently the most common natural disaster worldwide, and rising global temperatures will only make it more frequent and severe. Last year ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Scientists at Rice University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that laser-induced graphene (LIG) is a highly effective ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In a world of smart phones , smart cars, and smart appliances, drinking water utilities are striving to keep pace, installing smart meters that send ...
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It’s 2030, and you are headed to a public hearing on a proposed new pipeline project. Not an oil pipeline, but a freshwater pipeline that would move water ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Global Water Resources, a pure-play water resource management company, has acquired Eagletail Water Company, a water utility located west of metropolitan ...
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The San Antonio Water System is using a new tool that many people don't know the company is using: robots. The robots help crews keep an eye on all sewer ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Itron has signed a contract with Águas de Matão to help the Brazilian water utility reduce water losses and improve revenue. The utility, which serves 27,000 ...
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by Natasha Wiseman, Public relations partner at Grundfos UK&I
Wastewater specialist WPL is targeting the European market with investment in its Diamond compact packaged treatment plant range. The company says the ...
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