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Chapman University has published the results of a state-wide study on the communication campaigns California has been employing to address its ongoing drought. ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Scientists use Earth-imaging technologies to study the intrusion of saltwater into freshwater aquifers along the California coast. Researchers from Stanford ...
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SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya says farm loan waivers upset credit discipline. I fully agree with Ms Arundhati Bhattacharya Chairperson of State Bank of ...
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Xylem was recently awarded a £4 million contract to provide rental dewatering equipment to solve a complex water transfer challenge in record time. The ...
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A senior advisor to the energy minister of Iran has reported on a 1.7-billion-dollar agreement between Iran and South Korea for construction of Bakhtiari ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Variable weather is creating extreme challenges for crop breeding in California. How do you develop crops that will thrive under certain conditions when you ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Wisconsin scientists helped pioneer the study of bacteria and viruses in groundwater. Their research has discovered that microorganisms can occur deeper ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
But to urban experts, what would an investment in infrastructure look like? In the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2013 report card on infrastructure, ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers at Michigan State University predict this figure will rise by $49 over the next five years. And if it does, water may become unaffordable for ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Brunel University London and Mission Resources Ltd are developing an innovative low-temperature pyrolysis treatment to convert household waste into fuel to ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Chemists have found a way to use sunlight to purify wastewater rapidly and cheaply, and to make self-cleaning materials for buildings. The technology uses ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have—in just two years—nearly doubled the number of materials known to have ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Biologists from the University of Tübingen have helped develop biosensors which can detect drugs in water more quickly and in smaller amounts The principle ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
With their measurements and samples, nearly 3,500 schoolchildren have assisted a research study on lakes and global warming, now published in the journal ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Droughts can travel hundreds to thousands of kilometers from where they started, like a slow-moving hurricane. A new study sheds light on how these droughts ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A UConn climate scientist finds that Californians severe rains are likely to continue due to global warming. After years of severe drought in southern ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
MIT spinout Bevi believes it can cut the world’s use of bottled drinks with a smart beverage machine of the same name that delivers high quality, flavored ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Skiing in July? It could happen this year, but California’s days of bountiful snow are numbered. After five years of drought and water restrictions, the state ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Suez Environnement said that it had partnered with a Canadian pension fund manager to acquire GE’s water treatment technology business in an all-cash deal ...
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PUB, Singapore's national water agency, appointed CH2M to deliver the Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (WRP) – a key component of PUB's Deep Tunnel Sewerage ...
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