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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Scott Smith is not only an activist and the lead scientist with Water Defense, but an international expert in water purification, contamination, and crisis ...
Technology Purification Technology Filtration
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Cropland recycles less water into the atmosphere than native vegetation in Brazil’s wooded savannas, which could lead to less rain in the region as ...
Academic Agriculture Climate Change
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Filter-feeding fish accomplish a feat that human technologies cannot: species including goldfish, menhaden and basking sharks filter tiny algal cells or ...
Filtration
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Removal of nitrogen from wastewater is crucial to maintain water quality. A novel wastewater treatment technology based on “anammox” bacteria, capable of ...
Academic Treatment Treatment Plants Wastewater Treatment Wastewater Treatment Plant Design Efficiency Improvement
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A case study of a small Wyoming town reveals that practices common in the fracking industry may have widespread impacts on drinking water resources Only one ...
Academic Research Pollution Fracking
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
On UN’s World Water Day, clean tech company Watly were preparing to open an Indiegogo campaign to fund their award-winning solar technology. The Watly 3.0 ...
Social Solar Energy Clean Tech Solar Power
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
It is currently estimated that the cost to replace lead-lined pipes in the U.S. is $40 billion, according to a Global Water Intelligence report from last ...
Government Water Infrastructure Urban Water Infrastructure Governance & Planning
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Utilities nationwide are facing incredible costs to upgrade aging and inadequate infrastructure and address challenges related to drinking water, wastewater, ...
Business Water Supply Water Utility Infrastructure
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Climate Induced Hazard Coastal Engineering Glacier Coastal Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation 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)
Every hour, a multitude of chemicals complete their use life in homes, agricultural fields and industries and flood into the environment. The ultimate fate of ...
Technology Testing Instruments Sensor Systems Instrumentation Water Quality Environmental Consequences Toxins Pollution Water Monitoring Measurement
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Most of us think nothing of rainfall or where it goes, unless it leads to flooding or landslides. But soil scientists have been studying how water moves ...
Agriculture Agronomics Groundwater Geo-hydrology Agronomy
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Purdue researchers are developing a technology that could enable specific plants and crops to survive extreme periods of drought, while significantly ...
Academic Agriculture Crop Farming Sustainable Agriculture Research
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Economic and population growth on top of climate change could lead to serious water shortages across a broad swath of Asia by the year 2050, a newly published ...
Public Health Climate Induced Hazard Environment Climate Change Water Supply
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
On March 18, 2016, Warka Water was announced as the winner of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) World Design Impact Prize. ...
Technology Water Water Supply Community Supply Drinking Water
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Three of the city's retention treatment basins have discharged more than 49 million gallons of treated wastewater into the Saginaw River since Thursday, March ...
Government Water Environment Flood Management Environmental Impact Assessment River Engineering
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A research project conducted by Qatar University College of Engineering in collaboration with ConocoPhillips Global Water Sustainability Center and Qatar ...
Academic Technology Desalination
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Self-assembling hollow tubes with diameters of only a few billionths of a metre could be used to delivering cancer-fighting drugs inside cells or to ...
Academic Nano Materials Desalination Nano Technology Nanotextiles
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Academic Climate Change Climate Change
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
City resilience: Sandia analyzes effects of rising sea levels in Norfolk Analysis method available to cities that want to become more resilient ALBUQUERQUE, ...
Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change & Sustainability Services 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)
Insight from Christopher Gasson, Global Water Intelligence publisher I have been in Jeddah this week for the launch of the National Water Company’s Western ...
Water Reuse & Recycling Reuse Desalination