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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Arsenic is the leading freshwater contaminant on the planet, affecting millions of people worldwide and causing an untold number of deaths every year. Removing ...
Arsenic Groundwater Arsenic Mitigation Bioremediation Groundwater Pollution Remediation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A crop spray which can boost farmer's wheat yields by one fifth, without the need for genetic modification, has been developed by scientists at Oxford ...
Agriculture & Forestry
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Dr Raghav Pant, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher for the ITRC, won the prestigious Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize 2016 in Systems Modelling. His research ...
Infrastructure Infrastructure Management Risk Management Infrastructure Infrastructure
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by Esther Rasenberg, Water News Europe
Specially equipped drones are more and more used to inspect sewers. With the images and data the drone collects, leakages can be detected easily and ...
Technology Technology Monitors IT Water Supply Infrastructure Sewer Networks Waste Management 3D Modelling Robotics Pipelines Pipes and Pipelines
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Singapore's ministers Masagos Zulkifli, Chan Chun Sing and Heng Swee Keat answered key questions MPs had on the water price hike. Here is a summary of their ...
Government Water Supply Integrated Urban Water Management Integrated Water Management Water Supply Water Utility Consumption Infrastructure Utility Management
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by Yoshimi Yoshida, Environmental Consultant
SUMMARY Ten West Link would provide a reliable 500 kV transmission connection between substations in Tonopah, Arizona and Riverside County, California, west ...
Construction Energy Power Distribution Power Transmission Transportation
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Cascades Sonoco water-based barrier coating allows for the creation of recyclable, repulpable, compostable take-out containers. Cascades Sonoco, a joint ...
Business Food & Beverage Food Security Business Development Material Handling Paper Machinery
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Water Network team had the pleasure to interview Philipp Saumweber, Chairman & CEO of Sundrop Farms. Mr. Saumweber received a BA degree in Economics from ...
Technology Agriculture Irrigation Water Footprint Technology Energy Efficiency Vegetable crops Vegetables Renewable Resources Agriculture Sustainability Environmental Impact Farms Solar Power Agriculture
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
French waste and water company Suez is in the running to buy the water business U.S. industrial conglomerate General Electric has put up for sale, French ...
Business Water Treatment Solutions Business Strategy water treatment Water & Wastewater Mergers & Acquisitions Mergers & Acquisition
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by Joseph Cotruvo, President at Joseph Cotruvo & Associates, Water , Environment and Public Health
The new administrator plans to follow his statutory mandate—clean air and water—and to respect states’ rights. This is interesting reading because it ...
Government Water Law Water Management Law & Regulations Government relations, politics and policy
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Robusta coffee comes from the Coffea canephora plant, which is being increasingly planted in the Nicaragua under government authorization With climate change ...
Government Agriculture Agronomics Irrigation Drought Coffee Growing
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
An emergency meeting is being held by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation over the invasion of armyworms currently threatening crops in several African ...
Government Food Security Agriculture & Forestry Crop Farming Fertilizers and Pesticides Farms
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Even as average incomes rise in developing countries, access to sanitation and clean energy have yet to reach the poorest people, a new study shows. But there ...
Government Public Health Water Access Sanitation Human Rights Sanitation & Hygiene Water Supply Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Outside the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, two red boxes topped with flowers look like overdesigned planters, but they are actually public urinals ...
Technology Agriculture Solid Waste Management Treatment Composting Toilet Water Reuse & Recycling Reuse Nutrient Recovery & Reuse
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
New York Changes How It Tests for Lead in Schools’ Water, and Finds More Metal When experts said last year that New York City’s method of testing water in ...
Government Water Public Health Decontamination Heavy Metal Removal Decontamination Contaminant Removal Pollution Laboratory Testing
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A security researcher is showing that it’s not hard to hold industrial control systems for ransom. He's experimented with a simulated water treatment system ...
Government Water Scada SCADA Software Cyber Security
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers have completed the first flights of a NASA-led field campaign that is targeting one of the biggest gaps in scientists' understanding of Earth's ...
Academic Water Access Research Groundwater Integrated Water Management Water Supply Groundwater Mapping Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Roads are causing rapid evolutionary change in wild populations of plants and animals according to a Concepts and Questions paper published in Frontiers in ...
Academic Environment Environmental Impact Road Construction Environmental Impact Roads
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In the future, wide-ranging composite materials are expected to be stronger, lighter, cheaper and greener for our planet, thanks to an invention by ...
Technology Infrastructure Construction Concrete Concrete Mixing Green Products
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Multidisciplinary engineering team designs new solar-paneled walls that make greywater reusable and a source of thermal heat. Architect Maria Paz Gutierrez is ...
Technology Water Reuse & Recycling Industrial Water Reuse Reuse Grey Water Building Design Green Building Sustainable Building