UNESCO estimates that 80% of wastewater globally is released back into the environment untreated, polluting the world’s waterways and posing risks to...
Entries Tagged Pollution
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EPA Issues Guidance to States to Reduce Harmful PFAS Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released a memorandum to states that provides direction on how to use the nation’s bedrock clean...
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Water Fleas as 'Canaries in Coal Mine' Offer Key to Managing Chemical Pollution
Water fleas, or Daphnia, could provide an important early warning system for chemical pollution in our lakes and rivers.
In addition, where prevention...
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380-Ton Boring Machine Arrives in Virginia to Dig New Waterfront Tunnel
A new 380-ton, 14-foot 8-inch tall tunnel boring machine (TBM) named Hazel has been unveiled by AlexRenew — Alexandria, Virginia’s wastewater authority...
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A New Approach to Dewatering Helped a Massachusetts Plant Resolve a Compliance Issue
For decades the Montague Water Pollution Control Facility received pulp and paper waste from two mills, and some parts of a 2010...
Editorial
Revenue from Septage Keeps a Clean-Water Plant Financially Sound After a Major Discharger's Departure
The Richmond clean-water plant was humming along just fine until the Vermont town’s creamery shut down in 1999.
“With the creamery, our flows...










