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Heat waves that typically strike once every 20 years could become yearly events across 60 percent of Earth's land surface by 2075, if greenhouse gas emissions ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Recently, The Guardian reported on a significant new study published in Nature Climate Change, finding that even if we meet our carbon reduction targets and ...
Academic Environment Climate Change
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
It was once a land where ground water was so contaminated by arsenic that many who drank it turned dark with its poison. Today, the same villagers are making ...
Academic Arsenic Purification
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Groundwater contamination is a growing concern that should be on everyone’s radar, according to MPCA scientists. Three out of four Minnesotans get their ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The Flint water crisis did not begin on April 25th, 2014, when the city switched its water supply from Detroit’s system, tapping Lake Huron to its own on the ...
Academic Pollution Water Supply
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The general public has a long history of fearing what it does not understand. The unknown threatens our perception of the world, it threatens our security, ...
Academic Potable Water Reuse & Recycling Reuse
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Lessons learned during Australia’s worst drought on record are helping California through its own water crisis. A new report released today shows that ...
Academic Drought Conservation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
You probably have to dig pretty deeply if you’re researching the state of the market for midsize desalination and otherwater treatment projects. Until about ...
Business Treatment Desalination
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
ORI CERVERA HAD ALWAYS been an active person. She liked camping, playing outdoors with her kids, and practically lived in her running shoes. She didn’t have ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Natural spring water may taste great, but that doesn't make it safe to drink. Many people enjoy collecting and drinking “natural” spring water from springs ...
Academic Water Quality Spring Water Supply
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The seas around the UK and the rest of northern Europe take up a staggering 24 million tonnes of carbon each year It is a mass equivalent to two million ...
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Technology developed by a Tucson company may soon be purifying water on the International Space Station and, eventually, as part of future deep-space ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A Phoenix-based technology startup that focuses on water treatment, has been sold to a New York-based company in a deal that could potentially be worth more ...
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A new study suggests that sea levels are rising at an unprecedented rate and that the problem will continue well into this century. "Sea level rise in the ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Hydraulic energy harvesting aims to reclaim the wasted energy found in pressurized water pipes In many cases, water is delivered with an excessive ...
Technology Startups Energy Pipes and Pipelines
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Invention and diffusion of water supply and water efficiency technologies: Insights from a global patent dataset There is little doubt that technology – ...
Technology Technology Research Water Supply
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers have modelled how wetlands might respond to rising sea levels, and found that as much as four-fifths of wetlands worldwide could be lost by the ...
Academic Research Environment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Filters of nano-cellulose have been tested in two Spanish factories and a Spanish water company, and are found to be highly effective The tests conclude the ...
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"This study is the first to systematically quantify potential contributions of different strategies of farm water management to increase global crop ...
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At least two-thirds of the global population, over 4 billion people, live with severe water scarcity for at least one month every year, according to a major ...
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