When clinical studies emerged showing that people who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 shed the virus in their stool, the sewer seemed like an obvious place to look for it. Wastewater surveillance can be ...

It turns out one man’s poop might be another man’s treasure, as a team of scientists from Stanford may have found a way to take extremely toxic by-products of sewage treatment and turn them into ...

PORT RICHMOND -- You flush the toilet. What happens? Everything rushes to an underground pipe under the street leading to one of Staten Island’s two sewage treatment plants. Contents of toilets, sinks ...

EVERY day, Victoria, B.C., and its suburbs flush 21 million gallons of raw sewage into the Strait of Georgia and Strait of Juan de Fuca. To put that in perspective, it’s seven times the volume of the ...

Angered by a rash of beach closures and public health warnings, environmentalists and some coastal officials are demanding an end to a federal waiver that allows the Orange County Sanitation District ...

Following complaints over a 2015 public participation process on Cape Town’s pumping of sewage into the ocean, the City is once again taking public comments on the controversial matter. Residents will ...

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Re: “‘War’ feared over sewage site,” March 4. It is sad to see Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps is so fixated on “process” that she can’t see what the process has resulted in. The re-do of the sewage process ...