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Entry 242425A major wastewater treatment plant fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, sent thick clouds of black smoke into the sky, resulted in...

Entry 242428 Metro Vancouver recently announced it has fired the contractor in charge of constructing its $1 billion North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant after it...

Entry 242434A wastewater treatment works using 20,000 wetland plants was recently completed by Yorkshire Water — a water supply and utility company...

Entry 242455A plastics company from Petersburgh, New York, has agreed to pay a $23.5 million settlement after residential drinking water was contaminated...

Entry 242466The Town of Windsor, California, recently received the 2021 Helen Putnam Award for Excellence for a floating solar energy project at...

Entry 242469Two recent failures at water treatment plants in Ireland — at Ballymore Eustace and Gorey — have resulted in illnesses and...

Entry 242472A federal judge has thrown out a Trump-era rule that eased water pollution regulations, but the judge is still deciding whether...

Entry 242489Severe damage was recorded across coastal Louisiana as Hurricane Ida — the second most intense hurricane on the state’s record —...

Entry 242492The Piney Point fertilizer plant in Manatee County, Florida, is back in the news as rain pushes reservoirs to the edge...

Entry 242495Water utilities in California, Utah, New Mexico and New York are asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for help getting chlorine-based...

Entry 242498Pure Water Oceanside is on track to be the first operating potable reuse project in San Diego County. The Secretary of...

Entry 242512 A public works employee with the city of Stanton, Michigan, recently got a surprise when he discovered and captured an American...

Entry 242518Recent flooding at the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in Los Angeles — described by officials as “nearly catastrophic” — caused 17...

Entry 242521A professor from the University of Missouri says his lab detected the Delta variant of COVID-19 in wastewater weeks before the...