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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
When returning from a swim in the ocean, sometimes it seems as though your towel has moved. Of course, it’s just that the water line has shifted. The natural ...
Groundwater Aquifer Aquifer Recharge Groundwater Mapping
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
An international team of scientists, including one from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has found that up to 20 percent loss in the annual ...
Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A promising water technology invention combats climate change and helps waterway conservation. Surendra Pradhan (on the left), Riku Vahala and Anna Mikola ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have successfully created a membrane that removes viruses from ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Many farms in drought-prone regions of the U.S. rely on drip irrigation as a water-saving method to grow crops. These systems pump water through long thin ...
Drip Irrigation Irrigation Conservation Agriculture & Forestry Irrigation Management Irrigation Scheduling Irrigation Design Conservation
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Melbourne company Freestyle Technology has revealed it has signed a $5.8 million contract to roll out an Internet of Things (IoT) water management solution ...
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300,000 still without water after chemical spill: 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM) The Freedom Industries site in Charleston, West Virginia on Jan. ...
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Investors of Duke Energy want to revive the legal case at Delaware Supreme Court to hold Duke Energy accountable for the environmental damages. (Credit: Duke ...
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Coal ash is a hazardous by-product of burning coal to produce power. Physician for Social Responsibility (PSR) publishes the following statement with ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Many U.S. waterways carry a variety of pollutants, but not much is known about the composition or health effects of these chemical combinations. A new ...
Academic Water Pollution Pollution Pollution Contaminant Control Waterway
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Previously, scientists have suggested that agricultural irrigation affects mean climate in several regions of the world. New evidence shows that this cooling ...
Academic Basin Irrigation Irrigation Climate Change Agriculture & Forestry Irrigation Management Irrigation Scheduling
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Potentially explosive methane gas leaking from energy wells may travel extensively through groundwater and pose a safety risk, according to a new study by ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Without knowing it, most Americans rely every day on a class of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFASs. These man-made materials ...
Academic Decontamination Purification Decontamination Water Purification
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have developed strains of rice that are resistant to drought in real-world ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Of the many pesticides that American farmers have embraced in their war on bugs, neonicotinoids are among the most popular. One of them, called imidacloprid, ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Road salt is making North America’s freshwater lakes saltier, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The ...
Academic Water Pollution Pollution Lake Management Groundwater Pollution
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The United Nations has called on countries to “radically” increase investments in WASHinfrastructure not only to protect their populations from deadly ...
Sanitation Water & Sanitation Sanitation & Hygiene
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development ...
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A University of British Columbia-developed system that uses bacteria to turn non-potable water into drinking water will be tested next week in West Vancouver ...
Academic Decontamination Purification Decontamination
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by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
A University of Surrey academic is leading research that has found an effective way to monitor and remove contaminant pharmaceuticals from water using a type ...
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