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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Washington State University researchers say the world’s reservoirs are an underappreciated source of greenhouse gases, producing the equivalent of roughly 1 ...
Reservoir Greenhouse Gases
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The thousands of miles of aging, corroding pipes that bring water to Americans each day may be home to dangerous drug-resistant bacteria, a new report warns. ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
We are heading into a post-antibiotic era, where common infections could once again be deadly. A phenomenon known as antimicrobial resistance threatens the ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A treatment developed at The University of Queensland to control sewer odour and corrosion is set for the international market. Researchers from The ...
Sewage Corrosion Prevention Sewer Networks
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A specific strain of the fungus, Fusarium oxysporum , circulates in the water distribution systems of five French hospitals, in two widely separated cities. ...
Water Quality Water Quality Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A relatively low-tech method of imitating a natural marshland was implemented to help clean freshwater ponds contaminated by stormwater runoff. This ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A company started by two Illinois Tech scientists has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2016 Cleantech Open Accelerator Program. The company, AquaGrow ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
More than 700,000 microscopic fibres could be released into waste water during each use of a domestic washing machine, with many of them likely to pass through ...
Environment Pollution
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A new study using aerial imagery across the state of California has found that converting land to grow almonds between 2007 and 2014 has led to a 27% annual ...
Irrigation Drought
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Dr. Yongheng Huang, from Texas A&M University, is working to develop cost-effective water treatment technologies to meet industrial, agricultural and domestic ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Overpumping in Dhaka may threaten regional groundwater resources outside the city A new paper by the University of Delaware’s Holly Michael and Mahfuzur Khan ...
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Protests threaten to unseat Mugabe government, while four million people face hunger. The Runde River flows through southeastern Zimbabwe, where rainfall ...
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This publication was compiled by the Integrated Drought Management Programme in the Horn of Africa (IDMP HOA). The aim is to share lessons learned from ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Monocel, a designer and distributor of high-end top dyed yarns under the Monocel brand, is demonstrating its potential and how it can represent the next ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and global energy giant Total are investing $14 million to help commercialize a technology that may produce ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
We’re excited to introduce the $10 million George Barley Water Prize by the Everglades Foundation. They're looking for the world's most innovative scientists, ...
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India plans to review a 56-year-old water treaty with Pakistan in the wake of a militant attack on an army base in Kashmir which killed 18 soldiers. The ...
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Cities across the world are experiencing radical transformations in the way they manage resources as well as implement infrastructure. In particular, Smart ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A better understanding of the value of water is in progress at Iowa State University after an $800,000 award was given to researchers by EPA. “The reason ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The prize, first awarded in 2009, is one of the first and largest awards dedicated in the field of water supply and sanitation in remote areas of emerging ...
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