Testing of plane wastewater showed ‘failure’ of COVID-era air travel measures
Almost all planes arriving at three UK airports during a period of Covid restrictions had the SARS CoV-2 virus in ...
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Daylong wastewater samples yield surprises
NEWS RELEASE Credit: Stadler Research Group/Rice University NEWS RELEASE Jeff Falk 713-348-6775 [email protected] Mike Williams 713-348-6728 [email protected] Daylong wastewater samples ...
Analysis of wastewater in a New England college town reveals high usage of stimulants and a rise in drug use during the pandemic
TAMPA FL, December 6, 2022 — The COVID-19 pandemic helped legitimize Wastewater-based Epidemiology (WBE) as a less invasive, cost-efficient way ...
Novel mix-charged nanofiltration membrane developed for wastewater treatment
A research group led by Prof. WAN Yinhua from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of ...
Study: Turning wastewater into fertilizer is feasible and could help to make agriculture more sustainable
The wastewater draining from massive pools of sewage sludge has the potential to play a role in more sustainable agriculture, ...
‘Forever Chemicals’ persist through wastewater treatment, may enter crops
PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances), a group of more than 4,700 fully synthetic compounds that are widely used in industrial and ...
New research reveals wastewater treatment plants can catch a cold
Just like humans, wastewater treatment plants can get sick, due to viral attacks. Now, new research from Chalmers University of ...
Development of new technology for wastewater treatment for semiconductor production
Alcohols are used to remove impurities on the surface of semiconductors or electronics during the manufacturing process, and wastewater containing ...
Chord of second fiddle: Disinfection processes with higher removal efficiencies of natural and synthetic progesterones in hospital wastewater
Hospital wastewater (HWW) contains plenty of persistent compounds, dangerous substances, and pathogenic microorganisms, such as antibiotics, psychiatric drugs, β-receptor blockers, ...
A rapid, highly sensitive method to measure SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been shown to be an excellent means of understanding the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in communities. It ...
Ben-Gurion University environmental scientists develop a method to turn hazardous acidic industrial wastewater into valuable resources
SDE BOKER Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, September 12, 2022 – A research team of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev environmental ...
COVID-19 drugs persist in wastewater, may pose risk to aquatic organisms
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Certain drugs used to treat COVID-19 patients — including remdesivir, dexamethasone and antibiotics for associated bacterial ...
Monkeypox spread could be monitored with wastewater, study suggests
Monkeypox, a virus that causes painful rashes and flu-like symptoms, is spreading rapidly throughout many parts of the world, including ...
Measuring wastewater coronavirus accurately
Monitoring of viruses in wastewater enables the course of a pandemic and its burdens on various parts of the health-care ...
Reveal the fate of microplastics in a coastal wastewater treatment plant by the integrated membrane system
Microplastic (defined to be less than 5 nm) is growing environmental pollution problem. The increase of plastics waste from the ...
Wastewater viral loads can provide advance warning of COVID-19 outbreaks
Scientists show that there is a close association between clinical cases of COVID-19 and viral loads in wastewater, with the ...
SMART advances in the detection and quantification of viral pathogens in wastewater
Singapore, 22 August 2022 - Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research ...
A novel method of treatment high-salinity nitrogenous wastewater: Halomonas venusta TJPU05
Nitrogen in hypersaline wastewater produced by various industries causes severe threat to the aqueous environment, and the accumulation of ammonia ...
UC San Diego researchers add monkeypox to wastewater surveillance
An ongoing program that monitors wastewater for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 and which has effectively predicted subsequent surges in COVID-19 ...
Experts warn that climate change and increasing populations are threatening the resilience of UK wastewater infrastructure
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have examined the dynamic changes in the resilience of UK wastewater treatment works, now ...