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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
From antibiotics to hormones and painkillers - residue from drugs is found in wastewater, rivers, fish, and even in polar bear fat. But chemists say they may ...
Sewage Treatment Research
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Widespread use of antibiotics has led to pollution of waterways, potentially creating resistance among freshwater bacterial communities. A new study looked for ...
Effluent Sewage Treatment Liquid Waste Treatment Pharmaceuticals Waste Micropollutants Liquid Waste Management Waste Water Treatments Environment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Aluminum gallium nitride UV-C LED devices fabricated with novel epitaxial techniques show improved efficiency and have longer operating lifetimes. Systems ...
Technology Treatment UV Disinfection Purification Water Treatment Solutions Energy
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Something strange is happening to our planet. Around the year 2000, the North rotational pole started migrating eastward at a vigorous clip. Now, scientists at ...
Groundwater Glacier Climate Change
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Australia battled a 14-year drought with recycled toilet water, rooftop tanks and shared showers – and now California is hoping to do the same. As hopes that ...
Drought Conservation Climate Change Drought-Resistant Technology
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
It took nearly a decade, but former EPA scientist Dominic DiGiulio has proved that fracking has polluted groundwater in Wyoming. Former EPA scientist Dominic ...
Groundwater Environment Water-Energy Nexus Fracking Groundwater Pollution
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Public Health Desalination
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
About 22 brands of bottled water being sold in different cities are unsafe for human consumption and may cause various diseases, says a government survey The ...
Academic Public Health Human Rights Bottled Water Water Quality Monitoring
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Tara Troy, assistant professor of water resources engineering, takes a very macro-level approach to her field of study. “You can’t think about water in ...
Agriculture Water Supply Crop Farming Sustainable Agriculture
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Sea level rise is a critical global issue affecting millions across our planet. A new Web portal developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, ...
Coastal Engineering Environment Coastal Flood Modeling Sea Level Rise Risk Perception Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assesment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Development of a dynamic model for microbial populations in healthy lakes could help scientists understand what’s wrong with sick lakes, prescribe cures and ...
Research Microbiology Lake Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Harmful algal blooms dangerous to human health and the Lake Erie ecosystem—such as the one that shut down Toledo’s water supply for two days in 2014—could ...
Agriculture Watershed Management Watershed Algae
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to release natural gas and oil from ...
Public Health Groundwater Water-Energy Nexus Groundwater Pollution
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When water levels in rivers rise, an area known as the "river's liver" kicks into action, cleansing river water of pollutants and altering the flow of ...
Hydrology Microbiology Groundwater Water Cycle River Studies Habitat Freshwater Climate Change Hydrogeology Integrated Watershed Management River Basin management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Highlights Causes of inefficient fertilizer use in China are complex. Influencing factors span from national politics to farm household behaviour. A ...
Fertilizers Environment Crop Farming Fertilizer Fertilizer
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Ocean farmers are using technology to start an economic revolution and save humanity. I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of ...
Business Fish Farming Fish Food
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by Vishakha Rajput, Previous COO The Water Network at AquaSPE AG
After concerns about high levels of lead in water in the Lehigh Valley, Lehigh University collected water samples from residence halls and academic buildings ...
Academic Decontamination Contaminant Removal Contaminants
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling data-driven smart agriculture The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling data-driven smart agriculture. The IoT is a ...
Academic Agriculture
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
With reducing leakage a priority for UK utilities, calming the network with the correct use of valves can make all the difference, writes Mark Hodgens Fixing ...
Academic Leakage Infrastructure Leakage Reduction
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
More than three-quarters of small community water systems across the nation with the most serious health-related violations of federal safe drinking-water ...
Public Health Water Quality Monitoring