Entries Tagged California

Researchers with the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have found elevated levels of metformin, a diabetes treatment drug,...

Prolonged and severe droughts and other factors have made water supplies increasingly scarce in California, Texas and many other regions of the...

The Water Research Foundation, a leading sponsor of research supporting the water community, and Soquel Creek Water District recently completed bench- and...

San Francisco and other parts of the parched West Coast couldn’t help but cheer during what’s become known on social media as...

The Water Environment Research Foundation is launching its third project under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency funded National Research Center for Resource Recovery and...

A bus that’s revolutionary — in a green-energy-sort-of-way — took its maiden journey in the United Kingdom last week. Its fuel comes...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and City of San Jose celebrated the city’s successful food-waste-to-energy program with a tour of the nation’s...

A vacuum truck exploded at the Santa Clara Water Waste Co. near Santa Paula, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 18, spreading 1,200 gallons...

On Nov. 4, California voters approved Proposition 1, a $7.5 billion water bond that Gov. Jerry Brown had promoted as a way...

Many clean-water plants create brand names for their biosolids. The Encina Wastewater Authority takes the concept further.Its Class A biosolids pellets go to...

Workers at New Jersey’s Secaucus Municipal Utilities Authority were surprised to see a piece of debris tumbling from the sky toward the...

Editor’s Note: We will be highlighting the winners of WEF’s Operator Ingenuity Winners in an ongoing series on our website. The winners...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld announced more than $183 million in funding to invest in California for statewide...

A lead operator at the Fox River Water Reclamation District in Elgin, Ill., was taken into custody Oct. 1 after police received...