wastewater
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Discoveries & Research
Study tracks PFAS, microplastics through landfills and wastewater treatment plants
Scientists analyzed the liquid waste, or leachate, released by four Illinois landfills and the inflows and outflows of associated wastewater…
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Scientists examine how wastewater practices in Florida Keys impact water quality
Wastewater contains nutrients that can overfeed algae, leading to harmful algal blooms and pollution issues in the ocean and other…
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Discoveries & Research
No wasted effort: Effective wastewater surveillance methods for monitoring infections gleaned from COVID-19 case study in Japan
Wastewater surveillance has gained attention as an effective method for monitoring regional infection trends. In July 2024, the National Action…
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Technology
Wastewater Offers an Early Alarm System for Another Deadly Virus
Toward the end of last year, US health authorities got a tip-off about an upcoming wave of respiratory syncytial virus,…
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Discoveries & Research
Wastewater bacteria can breakdown plastic for food
Researchers have long observed that a common family of environmental bacteria, Comamonadacae, grow on plastics littered throughout urban rivers and…
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Discoveries & Research
Wastewater monitoring can detect foodborne illness
First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the…
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Entrepreneurship
This Pennsylvania company claimed it could extract lithium from fracking wastewater. It might have made things worse
Eureka Resources idled a facility, canceled plans to build another, and intends to sell or close two more. When a…
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Discoveries & Research
Avian flu found in wastewater of 10 Texas cities through virome sequencing
Avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, which spread to cattle and infected 14 people this year, was detected using virome sequencing in…
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