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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Low-flow building water systems designed to conserve water pose potential health hazards because they may cause an increase in disease-causing organisms and ...
Water Quality Hydrodynamics & Water Quality Water Quality Management Water Quality Monitoring
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When ice and snow melt away into streams and groundwater, road salt goes with it A t the edge of Behrend Fields, where a footpath leads back to a one-acre ...
Environment Pollution
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Water Network team had the pleasure to interview Rodney Herrington, the CEO of Aqua Research. Rodney Herrington has more than 40 years in product ...
Technology Startups Reverse Osmosis Membranes Water Treatment Solutions Membrane Technology Reverse Osmosis Membrane Filtration water treatment Water Treatment & Control Water Technology
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Europe is an urban and increasingly urban continent with the percentage of the population living in urban centers expected to increase from over 70% in 2015 ...
Social Environment Pollution Restoration River Restoration Water Quality Management Flood management Eco-City Development Water Waterway
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The new maps can tell which countries, and which commodities, threaten habitats and wildlife at various hotspots. Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia. ...
Academic Water Resource Mapping Data Management Ecosystem Management Impact Environmental Impact Climate Risk Ecosystem Data
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A battle is under way in the Amazon region of Brazil between indigenous groups and river dwellers on the one hand and big corporations on the other as the ...
Social Water Security Water Access Water Cooperation & Conflict River Engineering Water Security Water Security Dams Conflict Management
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The flashpoint for Syria's war, six years old this March, has in recent days taken the form of an elemental struggle over water. The drinking water supply to ...
Social Drinking Water Security Water Security Water Cooperation & Conflict Integrated Urban Water Management Water Security Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Concrete isn’t thought of as a plastic, but plasticity at small scales boosts concrete’s utility as the world’s most-used material by letting it constantly ...
Concrete
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A year after Storm Desmond struck the UK and at a time when the UK’s Committee on Climate Change have called for urgent action to address the risks to the UK ...
Flood Modeling Flood management Flood damage Flood prediction
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
On Dec. 11, 2014, a freight train of a storm steamed through much of California, deluging the San Francisco Bay Area with three inches of rain in just one ...
Flood Modeling Flood damage
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Consumers who want to calculate and reduce their use of products containing chemicals that can contaminate water supplies now have a tool to assist them, ...
Water Quality Pollution
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
With every toilet flush, valuable information encrypted in DNA is lost. Wastewater may hold a wealth of insight for public health officials, and an ...
Wastewater Collection
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
New research shows that sewage contains a source of energy that can be harvested by using hungry bacteria. Domestic sewage contains various organic ...
Wastewater Use Water-Energy Nexus
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Believed by some to be the most abundant known virus in the human digestive system, cross-assembly phage (shortened to crAssphage) remained undetected until ...
Water Quality Water Quality Management Water Quality Monitoring
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Urbanisation, climate change and pollution, among other phenomena stemming from human activity, pose a threat to water resources. Until now, urban wastewater, ...
Wastewater Phycoremediation Water & Wastewater
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have revealed a relationship between helium levels in groundwater and the amount of stress ...
Research Groundwater Mapping
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
An open access Water Atlas has gone online, giving the general public a 3D view of groundwater data from Australia. Water Atlas was developed by the ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Tiny, glowing crystals designed to detect and capture heavy-metal toxins such as lead and mercury could prove to be a powerful new tool in locating and ...
Decontamination Decontamination Water Quality
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A Purdue-affiliated startup has developed a low-cost, low-maintenance slow sand water filter technology to better provide clean and safe drinking water to ...
Water Quality Water Quality Management Water Quality Training
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The life of a watershed is complex. The watershed is the area of land separating the smaller water flows that feed into a larger, common outlet—like a river, ...
Water Quality Water Quality Management Water Quality Monitoring