(TNS) - With COVID-19 here to stay — albeit in a less lethal, endemic form — scientists hope the monitoring of traces of the virus in wastewater will eventually serve as an early warning system, ...

Clean water is essential to our environment and quality of life. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) includes National Pretreatment Program elements developed by USEPA to ...

Visit the CDC's online resource center for more information on the wastewater viral activity level and data calculation methods. The United States is experiencing high levels of SARS-CoV-2 viral ...

Should you still wear a mask in public? Is it safe to attend concerts or travel right now? Experts are increasingly recommending that we consult COVID-19 wastewater data to make decisions like these.

A new Princeton University study suggests that many countries are materially underestimating greenhouse gas emissions from ...

The researchers tested raw sewage samples collected twice a week from two treatment plants in central Pennsylvania for non-typhoidal Salmonella and characterized isolates using whole genome sequencing ...

In wastewater treatment, monitoring organic loads, particularly Total Organic Carbon (TOC), has become critical to maintaining efficient and effective operations. This is especially true in industries ...

Minnesota is making a move to update its COVID-19 wastewater reporting system in hopes that the changes will centralize the system and also check for other viruses. Starting Friday, the Minnesota ...

ROCHESTER — One month ago, Olmsted County confirmed its first measles case of 2025. While the public learned about the case on Friday, Oct. 17, testing by WastewaterSCAN detected measles in ...

It didn’t smell as bad as I thought it would. Sort of like going-bad ocean water but without the salt. It doesn’t look as nasty as I thought, either, but it’s important to maintain a sense of ...