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Determination of microplastics in pond water
Microplastics in pond water – Study ShrutiChaudhariaPrakashSamnanib aDepartment of Environmental Studies, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara 390002, India bDepartment of Chemistry, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara 390002, India Abstract Plastics in the form of the fibers, fragments or beads, smaller than 5 mm in size, are of increasing concern. These are called…
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Designed for women ? What’s needed next for cities
….. Increased water and sanitation for all According to the UN, one in four people do not have access to safe drinking water. Globally, women and girls bear the responsibility of water collection in eight out of 10 households, so are disproportionately affected. And one in three women do not have safe, inclusive toilets, which promotes gender-based…
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Designed for women ? What's needed next for cities
….. Increased water and sanitation for all According to the UN, one in four people do not have access to safe drinking water. Globally, women and girls bear the responsibility of water collection in eight out of 10 households, so are disproportionately affected. And one in three women do not have safe, inclusive toilets, which promotes gender-based…
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Water crises management
Economics aspects of water crisis Abstract The growing risk of water crises, including drought, is one of the greatest challenges in the coming decades. Averting such crises will be especially daunting, given that they are just as much a failure of water management as they are a result of scarcity. A major shortcoming is the…
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 (water & sanitation) in India
Transforming Lives through Localization Being the second-most populated country, India balances its huge water demand with limited resources. It sets an inspiring example for water and sanitation management through a catena of judicial decisions on the subject-matter and public participation on grass-root level. Independent studies notes that government plans and policies have contributed to an…
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 (water & sanitation) in India
Transforming Lives through Localization Being the second-most populated country, India balances its huge water demand with limited resources. It sets an inspiring example for water and sanitation management through a catena of judicial decisions on the subject-matter and public participation on grass-root level. Independent studies notes that government plans and policies have contributed to an…
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Rebuid Water economics and governance
Transforming the Economics and Governance of Water Source : Project Syndicate Source : Circle of Blue The floods, droughts, heatwaves, and fires that are devastating many parts of the world underscore two fundamental facts. First, damage to freshwater supplies is increasingly straining human societies, especially the poor, with far-reaching implications for economic, social, and political…
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10 Smartest Cities In The World For 2020 – 175 cities ranked by IESE
The Smartest Cities: Top Ten 175 cities classified according to “smartitude” including 5 in France …. Check African and Asian cities. ” 3 criteria in “Environmental Indicators for Waste and Water” …
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Webinar on Openstreetmap by Alexandre Duclaux – GIS expert for SUEZ Smart Solutions
Tuesday 8 November 9.30 to 10.30am (Paris time) Do you (really) know Openstreetmap? What is Openstreetmap? Who is behind Openstreetmap? Is Openstreetmap really free? What Openstreetmap for at SUEZ? Are water networks in Openstreetmap? During 1 hour, Alexandre Duclaux, Openstreetmap contributor will answer all your questions Send a message to opt@agroparistech.fr to receive the connection…
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Desalination and water treatment by Hippolyte Ditona Tsumbu – OpT Alumni 2017-18
Water true-cost to manage social contestability? Users’ perceptions about community-managed water standpipes networks in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Hippolyte Ditona Tsumbua,c,*, David Cammaertsa, Ignace Adantb, Françis Lelo Nzuzic, Jean-François Deliègea aUnité PeGire – Aquapôle, UR FOCUS – Université de Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium, Tel. +243824384260/+32465798787; email: hyppoliteditona@gmail.com (H.D. Tsumbu), Tel. +32494344492; email: davidcammaerts@gmail.com (D.…
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How This Guy Cleaned a Lake !
Clean a lake: an organic solution Short and spectacular video on a sanitation technology for water places by Nas Daily (a palestinian influencer) Other sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino_Morikawa Less spectacular, more “serious” www.dawsonenglishjournal.ca/article/environmentalist-marino-morikawa-a-dreamer-in-action-by-rosa-alicia-castillo/
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Water as source of therapy for anxiety and stress – WSJ
“…Water helps your mind wander in a positive way…” “…Water helps your mind wander in a positive way…” says Marc Berman, director of the Environmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Chicago. “This is what is so restorative.” …./… Here’s some advice on how to harness the healing power of water. Remember that all water…
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Water-energy-land nexus is essential for wastewater treatment
…/… Array of solutions from other regions The first solution is to improve sanitation and decrease pollution by increasing the proportion of wastewater adequately treated, monitoring and improving discharge effluent standards. This has been proved to be a useful solution in China, which has had rapid improvement in wastewater treatment coverage. China has successfully achieved…
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Deceleration of China’s human water use and its key drivers
Source and more : pnas.org 2020 March Significance China’s rising food demand and fast economic growth increase water use and threaten water security. We present a spatially detailed survey-based reconstruction dataset of sectoral water use from 1965 to 2013 at the scale of small administrative units called prefectures. The data show that a widespread deceleration…
