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Green Bay is retrofitting several manhole covers with high-tech monitors that will collect real-time data about water levels in its storm and sanitary sewers. ...
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Inadequate infrastructure and weak logistic chains substantially increase the risk that an extreme natural event will become a disaster. This is a core ...
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Researchers project supply and demand issues for South Saskatchewan River basin. Engineering PhD graduate Zahid Islam and his supervisor, civil engineering ...
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Morgan Stanley Energy Partners has acquired a majority stake in Entia Ventures‘ affiliate XRI Blue. Investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Energy ...
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Engineers from the University of British Columbia have created a tool that will help communities measure water quality. Nilufar Islam, who recently ...
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