Chloramine Sparks Protests In California City
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Residents of Stockton, a city in northern California, are protesting at city hall over tap water safety. “The mayor is less than reassuring — he doesn’t ...
Academic Water Supply Water Management
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Scientists Are Making Stronger Links Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather
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Every time an extreme weather event strikes—from Hurricane Katrina to the California drought—observers wonder what role climate change may have played. And ...
Academic Research Drought Climate Change
David M. Gates Dies at 94; Sounded Early Alarm on Environmental Perils
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David M. Gates, an ecologist who sounded early warnings that fossil fuels, fertilizers and pesticides posed a potentially fatal threat to the global ...
Social Fertilizers Ecology Fossil Fuels
Parched California Tries to Grab Storm Water before It Escapes
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A network of basins and wells, designed by geologists, can channel storm runoff into natural underground vaults before it vanishes into the sea As surface ...
Academic Groundwater Drought Water Supply
Water tight 2.0 | Top Trends in the Global Water Sector | Deloitte
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The central theme of this edition is innovation; exploring new ways to tackle supply-side, demand-side, regulatory or business-related challenges. All of the ...
Research Water
Tennessee WWTP Goes Chlorine-Free
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
After more than a year’s study into a new wastewater disinfection process, the Tullahoma Utilities Board (TUB) has received state approval to replace the ...
Government Wastewater Treatment water treatment
Mitsubishi Develops Energy-saving MBR
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has developed a compact membrane bioreactor (Eco-MBR) that recycles municipal and industrial wastewater with ...
Technology Membrane Bioreactor Systems Membranes
Sewer District Draws Up Comic Book Super Hero to Illustrate Underground Challenges
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In the chaotic underworld of Costa Mesa sewers, where grease and tree roots cause havoc to seep up toward the unsuspecting masses, only the Sewer Slayer can ...
Social Environment Infrastructure Infrastructure Management Sanitation Awareness
Lead Service Line Analysis Examines Scope of Challenge
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A new analysis published today by the American Water Works Association estimates 6.1 million lead service lines remain in U.S. communities, suggesting ...
Academic Water Quality Brine Discharge Modeling & Analysis Service Provision & Demand Management Infrastructure Institutional Development & Water Governance Climate Change & Sustainability Services Environmental Services and Mitigation Engineering & Services Recycling Services
Hawaii Bans New Cesspools, Offers Tax Credit to Upgrade to Sewer or Septic System
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) announced today that Governor David Ige has signed new Wastewater System rules that would ban new cesspools ...
Academic Public Health Environment Infrastructure
CDFW Monitors Effect of Severe Drought on Wildlife
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal populations that depend on freshwater marsh, streamside habitat and wet meadows are struggling most to endure the drought ...
Academic Environment Drought Climate Change
UC researchers publish roadmap for successful groundwater governance
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
California has not managed or regulated groundwater use on a statewide basis for most of its history, and many of the state's aquifers have been depleted by ...
Groundwater
Sea Level Rise is Accelerating
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Important new research shows that sea levels are rising at unprecedented rates, and will have tremendous costs if we don’t slow them As humans emit ...
Academic Climate Change Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assesment
University of Missouri Multidisciplinary Team Receives $4 Million NSF Grant to Advance Crop Research
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Expertise, resources found at Mizzou allow critical research to investigate drought resistance in corn that could help sustain projected 9 billion global ...
Academic Agriculture Drought Agricultural Research
Flooding Alleviated by Targeted Tree Planting and River Restoration
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A study, led by the Universities of Birmingham and Southampton, has shown that strategic planting of trees on floodplains could reduce the height of flooding ...
Academic Flood Management River Restoration Flood damage
These Newly Discovered Bacteria Can Eat Plastic Bottles
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A Team of Japanese scientists has found a species of bacteria that eats the type of plastic found in most disposable water bottles The plastic found in water ...
Academic Environment Polymers & Plastics
The impact of climate change on global food security: a fisheries perspective | Jessica Spijkers
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Fisheries Environment Fish Farming Fisheries governance
Women and Gender in Drylands
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Drylands cover approximately 41 percent of the world’s land surface and are a direct source of livelihood for 2.3 billion people or 1/3 of the world’s ...
Social Agriculture Gender Equality Environment Human Rights Gender Development Gender Rights
Behind-the-scenes Battle to Divert L.A.'s Stormwater from Going to Waste
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The storm had gathered power for days as it crossed the Northern Pacific, and now its outer band was uppercutting the coast. By the time Eric Batman arrived ...
Academic Stormwater Water Storage Storm Water Management
Wildland Fire Emissions Worse in Polluted Areas
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When plant matter burns, it releases a complex mixture of gases and aerosols into the atmosphere. In forests subject to air pollution, these emissions may be ...
Environment Forestry