When clinical studies emerged showing that people who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 shed the virus in their stool, the sewer seemed like an obvious place to look for it. Wastewater surveillance can be ...

It turns out one man’s poop might be another man’s treasure, as a team of scientists from Stanford may have found a way to take extremely toxic by-products of sewage treatment and turn them into ...

With the flush of a toilet or the removal of a bathtub drain, the water within disappears in a final, tiny whirlpool never to be seen again. Well, not quite. Discharged water eventually makes its way ...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment image: Researchers Jeremy Guest, right, and Yalin Li led a team at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy ...

STICKNEY, Ill. -- The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District's wastewater treatment plant in near Stickney, Ill. has many names, both formal and informal. The formal name is the Stickney Water ...

PORT RICHMOND -- You flush the toilet. What happens? Everything rushes to an underground pipe under the street leading to one of Staten Island’s two sewage treatment plants. Contents of toilets, sinks ...

EVERY day, Victoria, B.C., and its suburbs flush 21 million gallons of raw sewage into the Strait of Georgia and Strait of Juan de Fuca. To put that in perspective, it’s seven times the volume of the ...

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Angered by a rash of beach closures and public health warnings, environmentalists and some coastal officials are demanding an end to a federal waiver that allows the Orange County Sanitation District ...