Is Asian Dust Boosting Arctic Ice Melt?
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When the wind whips up a dust storm in Asia, there is a reasonable chance that the sand will be blown to the Arctic. Now a study has shown the route that ...
Academic Glacier Climate Change Research
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Acid Test Shows Real Threat to Coral Reefs
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Scientists from the US and Australia have direct evidence that the increasing acidity of the oceans is slowing the growth of coral reefs. In the first-ever ...
Academic Research Environment
Friends of Science Says Study Shows Millions of Canadians Question Human Influence on Climate Change
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Optimizing Biofuel Production from Algae Using Carbon Dioxide Emissions
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The combustion of fossil fuels drives the world's energy production, but it also emits carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases. In recent years, ...
Academic Research Algae
Puget Sound Lined With Cocaine PPCP Contaminants
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The Puget Sound, the waterway along the northwestern coast of Washington that borders Seattle, is thick with drug residue from treated wastewater, and the ...
Academic Pollution Research
In Silver City, A Clash Between Smart Meters And Aging Pipes
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Sometimes aging infrastructure makes smart meter installation difficult. In Silver City, NM, officials are running into this challenge during a smart meter ...
Academic Technology Meters Pipes and Pipelines
The Science Behind the Flint Water Crisis: Corrosion of Pipes, Erosion of Trust
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Flint’s recent water crisis is a stinging reminder that the infrastructure we often take for granted has many vulnerabilities. The crisis also underscores ...
Government Crisis Water Management
What California Can Learn from Australia’s 15-year Millennium Drought
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California has experienced, over the past few years, its most severe drought on record. In response to worsening conditions, Governor Jerry Brown announced ...
Government Drought Solutions Water Management
Stanford Researchers Develop Financing Framework to Fund Critical Freshwater Projects
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A new report by a team of researchers at Stanford University offers a framework to fund water projects based on lessons learned from the energy sector. "Our ...
Academic Freshwater Energy Research
Financial Benefits of Short-lived Coastal Restoration Aren’t Clear
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
As the state prepares a required five-year update to its long-term Coastal Master Plan, new research has revived three questions that some experts have had ...
Government Environment Coastal
Water Environment Research Open Access Article Investigates Activated Sludge Modeling
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Sludge Treatment Sludge Management Wastewater Treatment
Can Sewage Save Wetlands? One Louisiana City Decided To Find Out
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
As unappetizing as that might sound, there are projects like it all over the world. Sewage is full of nutrients that can enhance plant growth, and with proper ...
Academic Water Reuse & Recycling Environment Wetlands Constructed Wetlands
UK Campaign Gets Serious about Sewage and Aims to Prevent Pollution
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Call of Nature is a new campaign to raise awareness of the pollution that badly maintained septic tanks, cesspits and package sewage treatment plants could ...
Academic Wastewater Treatment Environment Septic Tank
Do We Need To Disinfect Tap Water For It To Be Safe?
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The recent disaster in Flint, Mich., where contamination rendered public water unsafe to drink and disturbed the sleep of many citizens — not just those who ...
Social Treatment Decontamination
UN Human Rights Experts Urge US to Increase Efforts to Address Water
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The situation of lead-contaminated water in Flint, Michigan, is fundamentally about human rights, a group of United Nations experts today said, urging the ...
Academic Treatment Human Rights
IIT-Kharagpur Develops Arsenic Filter for the Aam Aadmi
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur has developed an ultra-low cost eco-friendly laterite based arsenic filter for providing safe drinking ...
Filtration Technology Filtration
Nanotechnology Makes Cheap, Improved, Water Filters
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers have developed nano-scaled membranes that could potentially filter contaminants out of water faster and cheaper than current methods. Baoxia Mi, ...
Academic Filtration Nanotechnology Filtration Nano Materials
Arvia Wins Innovation Award
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The interactive Innovation forum, sponsored by aqualia, featured short presentations by panellists, relating to innovation in the water sector. These were ...
The risk of intestinal parasites in communities exposed to fecal waste
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In areas that undergo rapid urbanization in low-income countries the safe management of wastewater and fecal sludge is vital to ensure the health of the ...
Water & Sanitation Sanitation & Hygiene Sanitation and Hygiene
Bacteria Possible Cause of Stunting in Children
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Excessive growth of bacteria in the small intestine could be damaging the gut of young children, leading to stunting, scientists from the U.S. and Bangladesh ...
Social Public Health Sanitation