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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Food Security Climate Change Crop Farming Research
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Overview Over the past twenty years, the knowledge and understanding of wastewater treatment has advanced extensively and moved away from empirically based ...
Academic Treatment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A new report published revealed that global carbon (CO2) emissions are triggering permanent and alarming changes to ocean chemistry along the North American ...
Academic Research Environment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Highlights: Miami-Dade is drilling the state’s deepest municipal injection well on Virginia Key Geologists are studying whether treated sewage can be ...
Effluent Sewage Treatment Sewage
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
This railroad town promotes its ties to Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and the poet Carl Sandburg. But Galesburg's long history also shows in a hidden way: ...
Academic Public Health Human Rights Infrastructure
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Raw Sewage Sewage Infrastructure
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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)
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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