Most of the water and wastewater industry has at this point seen the stories about tracking COVID-19 in sewage, but what happens to the virus in wastewater and biosolids? And what happens when it finds its way into the environment? These are questions Michigan Technological University researchers are trying to answer.
Unlike many viruses, SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19, is not eliminated in the human gastrointestinal tract. So, when a person infected with the virus — whether they have noticeable symptoms or not — has a bowel movement, the live virus in their feces enters the wastewater stream.Researchers at Michigan
