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Caught between climate change and multi-year droughts, California communities are tapping groundwater and siphoning surface water at unsustainable rates. As this year's below-average...

Wastewater treatment systems that combine conventional setups with a relatively new technology could reap a host of benefits, including smaller plant sizes,...

Nematodes are a metazoan commonly found in wastewater treatment processes in small numbers. It is believed that nematodes typically enter wastewater treatment...

A new study by scientists at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and the United Nations University concludes that about half of global wastewater...

Enveloped viruses have been detected in untreated wastewater, but scientists still don't fully understand the fate and infectivity of these viruses during...

Producing clean water at a lower cost could be on the horizon after researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and...

The City of Lewiston, Idaho, has reached a significant milestone on its path to maintaining and enhancing water services in order to...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore have developed a new way to treat sewage that is simpler, cheaper and greener than...

Stricter effluent nutrient limits pose a dilemma for clean-water plant teams: How to comply with the new permit, and at what cost? Major...

A labor-intensive restoration of eight deteriorated membrane bioreactor basins for the South Valley Sewer District Jordan Basin Water Reclamation Facility in Bluffdale,...

Southern California has taken a major step forward on the path to developing a new sustainable water source from purified wastewater as...

Biochar — a charcoal-like substance made primarily from agricultural waste products — holds promise for removing emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals from...

As the Earth’s population grows and approaches a projected 9.7 billion by 2050, the world’s freshwaters will face mounting pressure to supply...

A municipal water tank in Destin, Florida, is this year’s winner of the Tank of the Year competition sponsored by Tnemec Company,...