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The International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) reports that lithium-ion batteries are most dangerous at the end of their useful life. If not handled correctly during the collection, disposal, or recycling process or when positive and negative poles touch each other Li-ion batteries can explode. …
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There is no shortage of innovation in sewage and wastewater treatment plants in the western regions of the United States. In Washington State, Oregon, and California, some wastewater treatment facilities have taken a bold move and converted their concrete tanks and pipes into world-class nature …
Climate change is a reality that the world is having to deal with daily. More and more coastal cities are becoming exceedingly vulnerable to flood and typhoon damage. It will cost billions to strengthen the infrastructure of these cities to deal with climate threats. A Tahitian entrepreneur has …
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When one thinks of the great Smart Cities of Southeast Asia, the country of Myanmar doesn't usually hit anyone's radar. But in the historic capital of Mandalay, through the aid of the World Bank, city officials hope that their beloved home can indeed become a Smart City over the next couple of …
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According to the Conversation article, "Smart concrete could pave the way for high-tech, cost-effective roads," 39 percent of America’s 614,387 bridges are past their lifetime design, and 10% are almost structurally deficient, making them vulnerable to any climatic or natural shocks. Repairing …
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A new scientific society, the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty, is arguing that water managers need to use a different system of analysis for planning ahead. The Society thinks that uncertainty in this time of rapid environmental and social change implies that managers need to …
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Tony Seba has published an updated lecture: The Electric Vehicle Disruption - End of Oil 2030 Having attended a lecture by Tony Seba two years ago, I have found his analysis coherent, well-researched, and well worth taking note of. If you are involved in transportation infrastructure …
Engineers in the tiny island nation of Singapore have been constructing a state of the art new sewer system, know as the DTSS (Deep Tunnel Sewer System). Phase one of the project was completed in 2008 and phase two began in 2013. It is a cost-effective and sustainable solution, offered by the …
In Lowndes County, Alabama, many septic systems are old, leaking, or have failed completely. Problems thought to have been solved at the turn of the 20th century have again surfaced, mostly in the form of hookworm infecting many children living in these rural communities. Often this is so …
You might have read the article "The revolution that built the streets of Paris" that BBC Future published. It dealt with the urban plan Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann created during the Second French Empire, which resolved the congested and complicated layout of medieval …
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The U.S. Department of the Interior launched a new center in December 2015 to encourage water infrastructure investment in the dry West of the United States. The Natural Resource Investment Center (NRIC) has been set up in the hopes that new infrastructure will be developed and invested in as …
In the Great Lakes regions of both the USA and Canada, infrastructure managers are considering how they could use road runoff by creating a green Stormwater infrastructure to handle the excess water that is often rapidly channeled to nearby ponds, rivers, or lakes. Often, if the water runs into …
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