Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few people get as excited about wastewater as Thomas Fudge. He has good reason: He and his colleagues believe they have figured ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere, and a good amount of it is composed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET, ♳). This polymer is used to make bottles, containers and even clothing. Now, researchers report ...

All wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) require upkeep and reinvestment to maintain efficacy and efficiency, and these improvements, which require infrastructure and equipment investments, frequently ...

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, monitoring wastewater emerged as a critical way to help monitor the spread of the disease. At first the CDC and allied state agencies had relied on hospital case ...

Wastewater surveillance is an emerging science that can be a critical public health tool for infectious disease surveillance. However, it is currently limited by a lack of standardized methods, ...

Microbial bioelectronic sensors use living bacteria that can create an electrical signal in response to the presence of a ...

Fish farming may be getting much more eco-friendly, courtesy of soybean processing wastewater. Microbes in the liquid have been used to produce proteins that could replace the fishmeal which is ...

Merced’s Wastewater Treatment Plant plays a vital role in protecting the environment as well as humans as treated water and biosolids eventually make their way back into the environment. Multiple ...

Few people get as excited about wastewater as Thomas Fudge. He has good reason: He and his colleagues believe they have figured out how to turn sludge into gold. Wastewater from places like breweries ...