A nearly two month long study is underway at the Hanford cleanup site, in southeast Washington state. It’s looking at a new stack on the Waste Treatment Plant — and how to keep too many chemical ...

As we flush our toilets and drain our sinks, few of us consider where our wastewater goes next. Yet, the wastewater treatment industry, a cornerstone of modern sanitation, is facing challenges that ...

University of Iowa Civil Engineering Professor Craig Just has worked with wastewater and treatment solutions for over 30 years. His most recent project, a small-scale wastewater treatment solution, is ...

Some 20 states have detected "very high" levels of COVID-19 in their wastewater, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The figure is up from last week, when 17 ...

Sewage surveillance has helped us track polio, covid, mpox, and more. Why not measles? Measles is back with a vengeance. In the UK, where only 85% of school-age children have received two doses of the ...

New research reveals that wastewater-derived organofluorine, dominated by fluorinated pharmaceuticals, threatens the safety of drinking water for millions, highlighting urgent regulatory and treatment ...

While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...