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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the microbiologist Andreas Farnleitner is looking at new methods for analysing faecal pollution in ...
Microorganism Decontamination Contaminant Removal Microbiology Water microbiology
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In August 2014, toxins from algal blooms in Lake Erie shut down the city of Toledo, Ohio’s water supply, leaving half a million residents without potable water ...
Decontamination Decontamination Toxins Algae Ecotoxicology
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Florida leads the south in water efficiency, according to a study examining water use across the United States.While states in the north have become more water ...
Water Efficiency Conservation Agriculture & Forestry Energy Efficiency Water Conservation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Rising groundwater can flood roads up to two miles from the ocean, new research from UNH has found.On New Hampshire’s Seacoast, rising seas could cause flooded ...
Flood Management Flood Modeling Flood management Flood damage Flood prediction Flood Risk Management 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)
Micropollutants enter rivers and streams in effluents discharged from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). As well as having adverse impacts on individual ...
Pollutants Water Pollution Micropollutants Pollution Pollution Micropollutants
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
New Indiana University research shows many Americans don't know how clean water gets to their homes and especially what happens after wastewater is flushed ...
Education & Research Infrastructure Education
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
BENEATH THIS DUSTY DESERT LIES AN ANCIENT WATER SYSTEM THAT'S STILL IN USE By Rachel BrownFrom above, it seems as though a series of holes were pierced in ...
Infrastructure
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Ensuring a robust crop for the next year, hull rot prevention, and producing an earlier and more uniform harvest are all reasons to maximize irrigation ...
Drip Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation Hydraulic Optimisation Irrigation and Drainage Micro Irrigation Future Irrigation Systems Irrigation & Water Management Agriculture & Forestry Irrigation Management Irrigation Agronomy Irrigation Scheduling Irrigation Design Irrigation Systems Micro Irrigation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Where you live has a lot to do with the price of the water that comes out of your kitchen faucet — but odds are, it’s getting more expensive. A recent survey ...
Water Rates Water Water Conservation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Because it is inexpensive and works effectively at lower temperatures, road salt (sodium chloride) is widely used by most municipalities to keep winter ...
Stormwater Management Stormwater Storm Water Management Stormwater Runoff
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Last February, record storms and snowmelt threatened to overwhelm the two spillways of California’s Oroville reservoir, the tallest dam in the United States. ...
Infrastructure Dams
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Recently, solar steam and vapor generation has attracted attention as a promising prospect in desalination, sterilization and chemical purification. Tremendous ...
Purification Filtration Filtration Filtration Water Purification Graphene Desalination
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Engineers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a new way to recover almost 100 percent of the water from highly concentrated salt ...
Academic Treatment Filtration Filtration Reuse Brine Discharge Modeling & Analysis Water Management Water Resources Management Desalination Desalination
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The emerging field of plasmonics could bring advances in chemical manufacturing, usher in new clean and sustainable technologies and desalination systems to ...
Plasma Desalination Desalination
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Stanford Earth's Rosemary Knight recently spearheaded a project to map underground freshwater resources and forecast the intrusion of saltwater into aquifers ...
Groundwater Aquifer Aquifer Recharge Groundwater Recharge Groundwater Assessment Groundwater Modeling Groundwater Mapping Surface-Groundwater Interaction Groundwater Salinisation Groundwater Quality & Quantity
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
eleven-x™, operator of Canada’s first and only coast-to-coast LoRaWAN™ Low Power Wide Area Network, announced a new Smart City development project with the ...
Smart Meters Integrated Urban Water Management Smart City Integrated Water Management Urban Water Urban Resource Management Water Management Urban Water Supply Water Software
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by Natasha Wiseman, Chief executive - WiseOnWater
A prestigious new visitor centre in the heart of the UK's Northumberland National Park will benefit from a specially designed package modular WPL HiPAF ...
Sewage Treatment Decentralized Wastewater Wastewater Treatment Wastewater Treatment Plant Design
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Water Network team had the pleasure to interview Ng Wun Jern, Executive Director of Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute, about his interest in ...
Academic Anaerobic Digestion Reclaimed Wastewater Water Reuse & Recycling Waste Water Treatments Wastewater Treatment Industrial Water Reuse Research Microbiology Integrated Water Management Reuse Water Management Water Resources Management Water microbiology Waste Water Treatment
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Water table depth and groundwater flow are vital to understanding the amount of water that plants transmit to the atmosphere. . The Science Plants are one ...
Academic Groundwater Groundwater Recharge Groundwater Assessment Groundwater Modeling Groundwater Mapping Surface-Groundwater Interaction Groundwater Quality & Quantity
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In summer 2010, Los Angeles was losing about 100 gallons of water per person per day to the atmosphere through the evaporation and plant uptake of lawns and ...
Academic Irrigation Conservation Agriculture & Forestry Water Conservation Landscape Water Conservation Water Conservation Water Conservation