water research institute Articles
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Linking Water Science to Policy: Results from a Series of National Workshops on Water
To ensure science better informs the decision-making process, researchers and policy/program managers need to understand and respect each other's way of working, culture and operational timelines. However, there is little practical guidance on how this should be done and even less documented experience with specific mechanisms that better link these two groups. The published literature on ...
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Managing uncertainty in the provision of safe drinking water
The Canadian Water Network, the Alberta Water Research Institute, and the Ontario Centres of Excellence have collaborated to create the Canadian Municipal Water Management Research Consortium, a new initiative to engage municipal water authorities and allow them to access research capacity to tackle mutually identified, critical issues. The challenge of managing uncertainty in the provision of ...
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Hutuo River Comprehensive Improvement project - Case Study
Project Hutuo River Comprehensive Improvement Project Client Hebei Water Research Institute Project partners Province South-Holland and Dutch Sino Business Promotions Country China Objectives of the Hutuo River Comprehensive Improvement Project Driving the Hutuo River Project is the demand for information in order for the Hebei province to enhance its ability to predict and prevent ...
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Regulatory Aspects of Direct Potable Reuse in California
Introduction California's water supplies are derived from a variety of sources, including local and imported surface water, groundwater, desalinated seawater, and recycled water. Water resources are becoming limited due to population increases, droughts, and reductions in imported water allocations. Furthermore, global climate change may exacerbate the problem in the future. Water recycling for ...
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Direct Potable Reuse: Benefits for Public Water Supplies, Agriculture, the Environment and Energy Conservation
INTRODUCTION Direct potable reuse (DPR), in which purified municipal wastewater is introduced into a water treatment plant intake or directly into the water distribution system, is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to developing new water sources (Tchobanoglous et al., 2011). The rationale for DPR is based on the technical ability to reliably produce purified water that meets all ...
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Assessing Risk Information Concerning Coastal Runoff
Executive Summary In coastal urban watersheds, runoff from the landscape eventually reaches the ocean. If beaches along the ocean are used for recreation, three vital and interrelated questions arise. First, whether and to what extent does urban runoff degrade the quality of ocean water that is used for recreation? Second, to what extent docs this runoff-related ocean pollution pose a risk to ...
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Water 2010: A `Near-Sighted` Program of Water Resource Management Improvements for the Western United States
Long-term visions and goals for western water resource management, with time horizons of 2020, 2025, or 2030, are extremely important and useful. A number of studies and planning processes with such time horizons are under way or have been completed recently. Among the most notable recent contributions have been the Bureau of Reclamation's "Water 2025" document and the joint Bureau/Sandia ...
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Views on the Status of `Water Recycling 2030: Recommendations of California`s Recycled Water Task Force`
Introduction Purpose of White Paper In June 2003, DWR issued the report Water Recycling 2030: Recommendations of California's Recycled Water Task Force, which addressed the mission established in Assembly Bill 331, Chapter 590, Statutes of 2001, to evaluate the current framework of state and local rules, regulations, ordinances, and permits to identify opportunities for and obstacles or ...
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Before disaster strikes: Preparing for complex emergencies with anticipatory action
Enhancing disaster preparedness and building resilience in fragile settings requires fostering a deeper understanding of the complexities involved. Floods, landslides, cyclones, droughts, and heat waves are just a number of rapid and slow-onset disasters that are becoming increasingly prevalent as a result of climate change. The vulnerability of both human and natural systems is increasingly ...
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Cal-Neva’s 2008 report on water treatment, desalination and filtration
This year proved to be one of expansion in all areas of the water industry. In the next few paragraphs I will attempt to report to all in this business what we found as we searched the world for new technologies. Let me explain what we do here at Cal-Neva Water Quality Research Institute of California. We scour the globe for emerging technologies that address either water treatment, ...
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Diamonds, gold and the value of water: The impacts of mining in South Africa
Starting today, Nick Tandi and Anton Earle from SIWI’s African Regional Centre, the 2030 Water Resources Group (2030 WRG) and the South African Ministry for Water will host a week-long knowledge exchange trip to Pretoria, South Africa. The knowledge exchange places emphasis on private sector engagement in multi-stakeholder partnerships related to mining and to finding solutions for water ...
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Innovation Forum: The results are in
An antidote to conference fatigue A Roman Forum. Gladiatorial battles in a Colosseum. Augmented reality. Fireside chats. Full interactive voting. These were just some of the reasons the all-new Aquatech Innovation Forum launched with a difference. Setting out as the antidote to “conference fatigue” and “death by PowerPoint”, the Forum brought together nearly 250 people. ...
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Removal of medicines at WWTP - Case Study
Efficient & effective with AOP | In wastewater treatment plants, only 60% to 70% of the medicinal drug residue is removed. In this TKI project (Topconsortia for Knowledge and Innovation), the removal of medicines and their residues from wastewater treatment plant effluent was examined on a laboratory and pilot scale. Research Type | Medicine Removal from WWTP effluent through advanced ...
By PureBlue
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Researchers: Carcinogen Can Occur Naturally in Water
Representatives of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Duke Energy take samples on the Dan River, which was polluted by a coal ash spill. Scientists have found that hexavalent chromium in well water, long attributed to coal ash contamination, may occur naturally. Hexavalent chromium is a carcinogen found in drinking water supplies. Many have thought its presence is due to human activity, ...
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The Benefits of Portable Water Quality Detectors
Introduction: Access to safe and clean water is essential for human health and well-being. However, water quality can vary significantly, and contaminants can pose serious risks to human health. Portable water quality detectors have emerged as valuable tools for assessing water safety and ensuring clean water in various settings. This article aims to explore the benefits of portable water quality ...
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Can Small-Scale Desalination Save the West?
Prominent researcher suggests decentralized desalination as a way to make the most of brackish aquifers There are many drought classifications: Meteorological drought is determined by how much precipitation has fallen. Hydrological drought is declared after consideration of streamflows, mountain snowpack, and groundwater reserves. And agricultural or ecological drought is determined by impacts ...
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Portable water quality detector – water quality rapid testing platform
Portable water quality detector is also known as portable water quality analyzer. The instrument design is small and beautiful, easy to carry. Water quality detector adopts guided operation design, the interface is simple and easy to understand. The operator can use it quickly and accurately. Operation without manual intervention, the system automatically identifies the detection channel, ...
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How new technologies are shrinking wastewater’s hefty carbon footprint
Wastewater treatment plants are energy hogs. A 2013 study by the Electric Power Research Institute and Water Research Foundation reported that they consumed about 30 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, or about 0.8 percent of the total electricity used in the United States. Wastewater treatment’s high energy footprint is ironic because the organic matter in wastewater contains ...
By Ensia
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Benefits of Electrocoagulation for Hotel Grey water Reuse
Most summers, my family takes a week-long vacation in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We typically stay in a oceanside hotel, and we spend all day, every day out on the beach under the sun. By the time we come in for the day for dinner, we’re covered in salt and sunscreen from head to toe and in desperate need of a shower. Showering is an event. There’s six of us plus any ...
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Could these two environmental challenges be the answer to each other?
In sub-Saharan Africa, entrepreneurs are exploring whether sanitation could solve a growing fuel crisis — and vice versa Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from, and often epitomizes, many of the environmental challenges faced by the developing world. Two challenges — safe sanitation and sustainable fuel — are receiving increasing attention, with both included among the Sustainable ...
By Ensia
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