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How do you monitor a tidal river?

Envirotec Magazine

This is because water quality is heavily affected by the state of the tide, which presents a significant monitoring challenge in the lower reaches of many rivers. With a tidal range of up to 7m, the River Thames presents a number of monitoring challenges.

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Best of GBB in 2021: Green Businesses Leading the Sustainable Business Movement

Green Business Bureau

With humble beginnings as a small business selling to Vancouver’s dock workers in 1918, Watson Gloves is now Canada’s largest manufacturer and distributor of gloves to the industrial and retail market. cities, Replate is a tech-driven nonprofit that combats food waste by connecting food donors and food rescuers together.

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Fluid thinking: Equipping cities to avoid inundation

Envirotec Magazine

Durham, October 2023 Urban locations worldwide are struggling to manage stormwater drainage, in the face of extreme weather. And this seems to be a key factor in the increasing difficulties being faced worldwide, when it comes to managing the hydraulic capacity of sewer and stormwater networks.

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A massive water recycling proposal could help ease drought

Grist

Or it may instead be used for non-potable purposes, like for agriculture or industrial processes. Basically, you’re taking wastewater that’d normally be treated and pumped out to sea — wasting it, really — and putting it back into the terrestrial water cycle, making it readily available again to people.

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2024 Leadership Award Winners: Green California Schools & Higher Education Summit

Green Technology

TEC plays a pivotal role in helping schools and public agencies achieve a resilient, reliable, and affordable energy future through a multi-faceted approach that includes program implementation, workforce development, and education initiatives.

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2024 Leadership Award Winners: Green California Schools & Higher Education Summit

Green Technology

TEC plays a pivotal role in helping schools and public agencies achieve a resilient, reliable, and affordable energy future through a multi-faceted approach that includes program implementation, workforce development, and education initiatives.

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Prefab Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre boasts energy- and water-saving design

AGreenLiving

Located on a lake in the heart of Zhuhai’s Western Ecological New Town in the Jinwan district, the sculptural building combines four cultural institutions under one roof: a 1,200-seat grand theater; a 500-seat multifunctional hall; a science center; and an art museum. Waste heat recovery systems will also help reduce water usage.