A Real-Life Bay Watch: NASA Helps Monitor LA Coastline
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Water Monitoring Environment Coastal Water Monitoring Water Systems Monitoring
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Groundwater quality changes alongside the expansion of fracking and horizontal drilling
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Left: Kevin Schug, lead author of the study and UTA’s Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry and director of the University’s Collaborative ...
Groundwater Water-Energy Nexus Fracking Groundwater Assessment Groundwater Pollution Fracking Technology
New 'Tunneling' State Of Water Molecules Is A Rulebreaker
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Under extreme confinement, water molecules undergo a "tunneling" state breaking the rules of known fundamentals seen in gas, liquid, or solid state, a new ...
Academic Molecular Computations Learning & Collaboration
New Way to Tame Mine Water
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Ground-breaking research on nuclear waste by US scientists has given their South African colleagues working on preventing the pollution of this country's ...
Academic Technology Research Mine Water Management
Farmers Use Contaminated Birim River Water to Irrigate Crops
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Farmers along the Birim River are using the water body, confirmed to contain suspended particles and some levels of arsenic and mercury due to illegal mining, ...
Social Agriculture Irrigation Pollution
Maximizing Our Impact Through Data Sharing: UNOSAT Flood Portal | UNITAR
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
UNOSAT announces the official launch of its flood portal, a dedicated, free-to-use repository where anyone can easily find and download satellite-derived ...
Environment Flood Management Flood Modeling Flood management Flood damage
New Biomaterial Impedes Bacteria on Metal Surfaces
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Left: SEM micrographs of A. baumannii, P. aeruginosa (PA14), S. marcescens and P.stuartii biofilm architectures. The untreated control surface shows ...
Academic Nanotechnology Biotechnology Nano Materials
Measuring river surface flow with image analysis
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
River Studies Performance Benchmarking of River River Engineering Flood Modeling Flood prediction River Engineering
Brackish Groundwater Can Augment Fresh Water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Academic Brackish Water Water-Energy Nexus Fracking Fracking Technology
Innovation making waves pulling water from air - Simon Fraser University
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers in Simon Fraser University’s School of Mechatronics Systems Engineering are tackling the world’s water crisis by pulling water out of the air. ...
Innovation Atmospheric Water Generator Research Atmospheric Water Generation
ANH Releases Study of Glyphosate in Breakfast Foods
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Glyphosate, primary ingredient in popular herbicide Round Up, present in 40% of products tested April 19, 2016 — Today, the Alliance for Natural Health-USA ...
Public Health Pesticides Fertilizers and Pesticides Herbicides Pesticides
Water, Water Everywhere And Not A Drop For Export
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
There’s a long, but very interesting piece at POLITICO about Las Vegas, and how it’s attempting to become the Silicon Valley of water technology. The effort ...
Academic Drought River Basin management Water Management
Forests and Grasslands Could Yield Less Water in Future Climate
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A warmer climate may lead to higher growth and productivity on U.S. national forests and grasslands, but university and U.S. Forest Service researchers say ...
Academic Environment Ecosystem Management Forest Biodiversity
Water Purifier Generates Electricity and Creates Wi-Fi Connections
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Imagine a machine that can turn contaminated water from a river, ocean or even sewage into drinking water, while at the same time generating enough ...
Technology Purification Sewage Drinking Water
It's Time to Drink the Kool-Aid and Get Over Recycled Water's 'ick' Factor
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Academic Water Reuse & Recycling Reverse Osmosis Water Quality Reuse Reverse Osmosis
Swedish Report Slams Polluting Pharma Firms of Hyderabad
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Academic Public Health Environment Pharmaceuticals
How Toxic Algae are Threatening Humans and Wildlife Across the World
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Tourism, fisheries -- and the water supply -- are at risk Around the world, regions have recorded some of the largest algal blooms ever in the past year. If ...
Academic Water Quality Environment Algae
Villagers in North Bihar are abandoning handpumps for dugwells to escape cancer-causing arsenic
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Public Health Arsenic Water Quality Groundwater Human Rights Water Wells
Agricultural compounds in drinking water linked to birth defects
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Three different substances, commonly found in private wells in rural agricultural areas, seem to cause problems when ingested during early pregnancy One of ...
Public Health Contaminant Removal Groundwater Human Rights Groundwater Pollution
Avoiding the next Flint: Testing school water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
First lady Michelle Obama and other health advocates have been urging kids to drink more water as a healthy alternative to sugary drinks — but for decades, the ...
Public Health Human Rights