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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Seawater in Egypt could be turned into drinking water using biomass energy as a source of heat in a new collaborative project from academics at the University ...
Academic Biomass Desalination Desalination
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
ARTICLE The High Plains Aquifer: Can We Make It Last? Boulder, Colorado, USA: The heart of the United States is a highly productive agricultural region. This ...
Academic Aquifer Aquifer Recharge Aquifer Recharge
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) reveals that residents of the Mid-Ohio River Valley had higher than normal levels of perfluorooctanoic ...
Academic Public Health Decontamination Human Rights
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Prof. Boris Rybtchinski and his group have developed a new type of membrane that could extend the life of a separation system, lower its cost and, in some ...
Membrane Bioreactor Systems Membranes Polymeric Membranes Membrane Technology Membrane Filtration Polymer Membranes Desalination
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Flooding is currently the most common natural disaster worldwide, and rising global temperatures will only make it more frequent and severe. Last year ...
Academic Flood Management Flood management Flood damage Flood Risk Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Scientists at Rice University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that laser-induced graphene (LIG) is a highly effective ...
Nanotechnology Coatings Graphene
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
In a world of smart phones , smart cars, and smart appliances, drinking water utilities are striving to keep pace, installing smart meters that send ...
Meter Optimisation Smart Meters Meters Smart Meters Manager Smart Water Management Smart Metering (AMI)
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
It’s 2030, and you are headed to a public hearing on a proposed new pipeline project. Not an oil pipeline, but a freshwater pipeline that would move water ...
Economics Water Export Water Rates Economics
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Global Water Resources, a pure-play water resource management company, has acquired Eagletail Water Company, a water utility located west of metropolitan ...
Water Supply Business Strategy Natural Resource Management Water Supply Water Management Water Resource Management Water Resources Management Mergers & Acquisitions Mergers & Acquisition
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The San Antonio Water System is using a new tool that many people don't know the company is using: robots. The robots help crews keep an eye on all sewer ...
Technology Leakage Detection Sewage Leakage Infrastructure Integrated Infrastructure Infrastructure Management Sewer Networks Pipeline Rehabilitation Infrastructure Pick & Place Robots Pipes and Pipelines
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Itron has signed a contract with Águas de Matão to help the Brazilian water utility reduce water losses and improve revenue. The utility, which serves 27,000 ...
Technology Integrated Urban Water Management Data Management Urban Water Water Utility Leakage Water Management Urban Water Supply Water Software
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by Natasha Wiseman, Chief executive - WiseOnWater
Wastewater specialist WPL is targeting the European market with investment in its Diamond compact packaged treatment plant range. The company says the ...
Sewage Treatment Decentralized Wastewater Technology Wastewater Treatment Wastewater Collection Waste Management
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
SnowPure Water Technologies, who makes and sells industrial and medical water purification technologies into the $5 billion global ultrapure market, was ...
Treatment Purification Technology Business Strategy Water Supply Water Purification
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Defense and technology company L3 Technologies (LLL) has announced the acquisition of undersea power company Open Water Power for an undisclosed amount. ...
Technology Energy Energy Reduction Mergers & Acquisitions Mergers & Acquisition
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
In Mexico City, Veolia will build and operate the first Waste to Energy facility in Latin America. Jointly with leading global and Mexican companies, Veolia ...
Wastewater Use Technology Waste to Value Urban Water Urban Resource Management Agriculture & Forestry Waste to Energy Energy Plant Design Waste Management
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Climate change will likely cause wheat and barley yields to decline by 17 to 33 percent by the end of the century, predicts a new statistical model developed ...
Crop Farming Cereals
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Crops like almonds cannot be left fallow during dry years without jeopardizing the trees, which during droughts require extensive irrigation in the California ...
Groundwater Aquifer Groundwater Recharge Aquifer Recharge Groundwater Modeling Agriculture & Forestry
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A Dubai firm’s dream of towing icebergs from the Antarctic to the Arabian Peninsula could face some titanic obstacles.Where many see the crumbling polar ice ...
Water Supply
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Spatio-temporal patterns of water-use efficiency (per-capita consumption) over the continental United States. Colors indicate the change in per-capita ...
Water Efficiency Conservation Consumption Efficiency Improvement Agriculture & Forestry
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
For years, scientists have been warning of a so-called “hot spot” of accelerated sea-level rise along the northeastern U.S. coast. But accurately modeling this ...
Climate Induced Hazard Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Resilience