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A new method to treat sewage can efficiently convert leftover sludge to biogas, an advance that could help communities lower their waste treatment costs while helping the environment. A new method to ...

As we flush our toilets and drain our sinks, few of us consider where our wastewater goes next. Yet, the wastewater treatment industry, a cornerstone of modern sanitation, is facing challenges that ...

The quality of global water resources is increasingly strained by socio-economic developments and climate change, threatening both human livelihoods and ecosystem health. With inadequately managed ...

Wastewater is a discarded human by-product, but its analysis may help us understand the health of populations. Epidemiologists first analyzed wastewater to track outbreaks of poliovirus decades ago, ...

While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...

This press release has been updated on 1 March 2024 to include the text of the Council and Parliament provisional agreement. The Council and the European Parliament’s negotiators today reached a ...