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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The solvents currently used to remove specific metals from water all have disadvantages: safety risks are high, the process is slow, they are expensive or not ...
Chemical Analysis Solvents Pulp & Paper
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled residents and damaged buildings in East Texas in 2012 was triggered by the injection of large volumes of wastewater ...
Water-Energy Nexus Fracking Fracking Technology
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Research with flood-affected children reveals serious impacts on well-being but also a desire to take on a role in flood risk management. Lancaster University ...
Public Health Human Rights Flood management Flood damage Public Health
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
With California in its fifth year of severe drought and many western states experiencing another year of unusually dry conditions, plants are ...
Agriculture
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When there are no data due to a lack of hydrometric station, interviews to neighbours and air photographs of water environment are the effective methods to ...
River Studies
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When Roxanne Moore got up to make her morning coffee a few weeks ago, she turned on the faucet and got a burst of water — then nothing came out but air. That ...
Groundwater Aquifer Drought Water Wells Well Drilling
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the U.S., which makes for a perky population — but it also creates a lot of used grounds. Scientists now report in ...
Purification Filtration Decontamination Filtration Solutions Contaminant Removal
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
An initial study by University of Texas at Arlington chemists of well water quality in the Eagle Ford Shale region found some abnormal chloride/bromide ratios, ...
Contaminant Removal Pollution Water-Energy Nexus
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Results of recent private water well screenings in five South Texas counties underscored the importance of regular testing of private water wells, said a Texas ...
Public Health Contaminant Removal Water Quality Human Rights Water Wells
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In California's Central Valley, where verdant fields of fruit and vegetables unfurl under sunny skies, the water that feeds them -- and flows into taps across ...
Agriculture Public Health Agricultural Human Rights
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Edgar Serralde Galicia lives in a part of Mexico City known for water: Xochimilco, where picturesque canals have irrigated produce grown on man-made islands ...
Rainwater Harvesting Water Supply
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A researcher from The University of Manchester has developed a free tool to help scientists and policymakers to manage agricultural water use and improve crop ...
Irrigation Drought Climate Change Crop Farming Irrigation Management Irrigation Scheduling
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A United Kingdom-based firm has unveiled what it called a “major new green plastics technology” which it claimed has the potential to transform mainstream ...
Technology Polymers & Plastics Plastics Packaging
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Drinking water supplies for two-thirds of Americans are contaminated with the carcinogenic chemical made notorious by the film 'Erin Brockovich'. But there ...
Government Public Health Pollution Toxic & Hazardous Substances Contaminants Public Health Chemicals Contaminant Control
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Nestle keeps piping water from the national forest, although their permit is 28 years out of date. A federal judge has ruled that a permit allowing Nestle to ...
Business Law Bottled Water Water
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A high-resolution climate model based at NCAR accurately captures the ribbons of moist air, allowing scientists to investigate how 'atmospheric rivers' may ...
Academic Modeling Climate Change Atmospheric Water Generation
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Heavy rain brought by Typhoon Malakas caused contaminated groundwater to rise to ground level at the radiation-hit Fukushima. Tokyo Electric Power Company ...
Government Groundwater Groundwater Pollution Nuclear Plant Operation
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Mueller Water Products, Inc. received the 2016 Best Smart Water Solution award at the third annual Smart Water Summit in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. This is ...
Business Technology Monitors Smart Meters Leakage Reduction Smart Metering (AMI)
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During the hot summer months, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) ran its ‘Lets make the summer green’ program to promote the rational use of water ...
Social Conservation Natural Resource Management Urban Water Water Security Energy Reduction Water-Energy Nexus
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by Heather Jepsen, Vice President of Operations at EcoloBlue, Inc
Bottled water may provide necessary relief in the wake of a crisis but the industry itself poses serious long-term threats to the environment and public ...
Social Water Public Health Purification Policy Environment Energy Human Rights Water Supply Governance & Planning