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Top 10 Wastewater News Stories of 2017
As 2017 comes to a close, we’d like to take a few moments to look back on what made the headlines this...
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News Briefs: Workers Find Organs in Detroit WWTP
Workers at a Detroit, Michigan, wastewater treatment plant made two calls to police after finding either organs in its processes Friday and...
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News Briefs: Startup Company Develops Flushable Pregnancy Test
Lia Diagnostics recently launched the first-ever flushable pregnancy test at TechCrunch in Berlin.The tests are made from a special paper that claims...
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News Briefs: Thousands Still Lack Clean Water After Hurricane Harvey
More than three months after Hurricane Harvey made landfall and wreaked havoc along the Gulf Coast, there are still thousands waiting for...
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News Briefs: Explosion at WWTP Chemical Manufacturer Leaves One Dead
A recent fire-tank explosion at a Nash County, North Carolina, wastewater treatment plant chemical manufacturer resulted in the death of one person.Two...
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News Briefs: Researchers Use Mussels to Scrub Bronx River of Nutrients
A team of marine scientists, a mussel farmer and youth volunteers in New York City recently stocked a raft with ribbed mussels...
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News Briefs: Reporters Claim Unsafe Washington Treatment Plant Ruined Man's Life
After being exposed for seven years to toxins at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard’s wastewater treatment plant, Tim Combs of Bremerton, Washington,...
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News Briefs: Animal Control Rescues Deer From Water Treatment Tank
Animal control workers in Cobb County. Georgia, rescued a deer that fell into a water treatment tank at the R.L. Sutton Wastewater...
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News Briefs: City Shuts Off Water Service to Mayor's House for Nonpayment
The Santa Fe Water Division recently shut off service to the home of its own mayor, Javier Gonzales, for failing to pay...
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News Briefs: Lawsuit Accuses Companies of Inflating Price of Aluminum Sulfate
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission — Maryland’s largest water utility — recently filed a federal lawsuit accusing eight companies and five executives of...
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News Briefs: Millions in Gold and Silver Pass Through Swiss Sewers Yearly
A study by scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology recently discovered that around $1.8 million in gold,...
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News Briefs: Treatment Plant Vandals Leave 2,000 Residents Without Water
An act of water treatment plant vandalism recently left 2,000 residents in Crow Agency, Montana, without clean water and caused $1 million...
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News Briefs: Water Plant Under Probe After Dead Rats Were Found in Processes
Federal environmental officials have their eye on Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California, after finding rats and a frog in water treatment processes...



















