Humans have used their own waste as fertilizer for thousands of years, with varying degrees of success. In King County, it’s a growing business.

If the test succeeds and the technology proves scalable, a next step could be a sludge-to-fuel facility at one of ...

Large, costly upgrades are underway for the Kailua treatment plant. But unsafe bacteria levels continue to crop up after ...

BRATTLEBORO — A routine sample taken from treated wastewater entering the Connecticut River from the town's treatment plant came back with "higher than allowed results ... assistant director of the ...

Allegheny County has retained Biobot Analytics to analyze wastewater — with the goal of helping detect trends in drug use.

Wastewater treatment facilities serve most of the US population, yet less than 25% of measured organofluorine is removed even under advanced processes. In the study titled "High organofluorine ...

A data point is marked as “insufficient data” if wastewater samples test negative for a virus (because levels are too low to ...

The Central Valley is home to many of California's most vulnerable groups to bird flu: agricultural workers. It's also where ...

Wastewater treatment facilities are a major source of PFAS contamination in drinking water in the US – they discharge enough of the “forever chemicals” to raise concentrations above safe ...

Dairy farming contributes significantly to the agriculture waste load because of the high volumes of wastewater generated.

Engineering Tomorrow, a national STEM education nonprofit, held a virtual and in-person event on January 15, 2025, that introduced students across the country to wastewater treatment. The event was a ...