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Rebecca Burke — one of the winners of the 2019 National Association of Wastewater Technicians Hapchuk Scholarships — has seen a decade...

While traveling in Angkor Wat, Cambodia, Jennie Callahan met a civil engineer who was restoring temples. Years later, attending a graduate program...

More than a dozen teams from Greater Cleveland competed Saturday in the first round of Erie Hack 2.0 — an innovative water-solutions competition that...

In the 1970s, a research project analyzed the effects of biosolids land application on an area devastated by coal mining — the...

Wastewater treatment effluent has been found to contain trace amounts of antibiotic resistant DNA, according to recent research. These products are often...

Can a modern wastewater treatment plant operate with a zero-carbon footprint? Dennis Palmer, executive director and chief engineer of the Landis Sewerage...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler recently announced the agency’s Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Action Plan. The plan responds...

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has authorized the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to establish the UW System’s first Bachelor of...

No matter what you do as an operator, mother nature has a way of disregarding best-laid plans. In the closing days of January,...

Microplastics contaminate the world’s surface waters, yet scientists have only just begun to explore their presence in groundwater systems. A new study...

Jeanne Sabin always liked the idea of going to Mars. When an opportunity arose to operate a wastewater treatment facility at the...

In the future, wastewater treatment plants can have a broader function by being converted into biorefineries. All of the world's wastewater treatment plants treat...

A recent report based on input from more than 1,300 corrosion professionals identifies aging water infrastructure as a pressing, costly yet fixable...

The Water Research Foundation (WRF) has released a new report titled Wildfire Impacts on Drinking Water Treatment Process Performance: Development of Evaluation Protocols...