Entries Tagged Pharmaceuticals

MIT chemical engineers create an affordable, sustainable soap-based system to eliminate emerging micropollutants in water

Award-winning researcher Karl Linden sees big potential for ultraviolet light, not just for disinfection but to treat pharmaceuticals and even attack Covid.

The research also creates the ability to develop on-site monitoring of drugs in water

Scientists from the University of Minnesota are predicting how certain drugs will break down in wastewater.

In this week's water and wastewater news, Flint will receive FEMA funds, the House votes to override Clean Water Act revisions, and a patent is issued for a wastewater treatment system that removes micropollutants

Perhaps the first of its kind, this metropolitan water utility has devised a communitywide program to keep medication out of the water supply.

Recent studies indicate that even highly treated effluent contains microcontaminants. A new study suggests that the solution to protecting water resources might lie not in a new wastewater treatment process, but in designing better drugs.

Calgary’s combined wastewater research facility — Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets — works to develop more efficient bacteria that could save billions of dollars.

In this week's water and wastewater news, a South Dakota man faces charges for falsifying pollution control reports, and a new study says chlorine might be causing problems in our treatment systems.