Entries Tagged COVID-19

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has selected the Water Environment Federation to develop, manage and provide training for a...

The Water Research Foundation will host an online symposium April 26 to share updates on wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) activities from around the...

A sewage surveillance program installed at the City of Warren, Michigan, and Oakland University housing recently detected the UK variant of COVID-19...

Consider this scenario: You arrive at work on a Monday morning and your plant manager gives you an order to shut down...

Treatment plant operators work day in and day out to serve their communities with efforts that are too often unnoticed. But a...

Across the nation, COVID-19 vaccinations are being distributed slowly but surely, with the promise of wider vaccine availability in the months to...

Entry 242706Power outage issues during the recent storms that led to a boil-water notice at Ullrich Water Treatment Plant in Austin, Texas,...

There’s a scene in the old Tom Hanks/Shelley Long movie, The Money Pit that relates to the status of America’s infrastructure. The Hanks character calls...

The Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 was recently passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump. The...

As Congress considers another coronavirus relief package, a number of water associations are calling for funding to help utilities rebound from the pandemic...

Entry 243177Crews are working to clean up a diesel fuel spill at a wastewater treatment facility in Selawik, in the Northwest Arctic...

The Orange County (California) Water District recently was recognized as a Special Districts Award Winner by AT&T and Government Technology Magazine. This...

Entry 243201A federal judge has sentenced the former supervisor of Sioux City, Iowa’s wastewater treatment facility to two years of probation, including...

Recent trial programs looking at the efficacy of testing wastewater to detect COVID-19 outbreaks have yielded important insights about how this method...