Essential data can be found in the most unexpected places, including the wastewater flowing freely through sewers. During the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, cities began tapping their ...

The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority's wastewater treatment plant. Hiding deep in the sprawling spiderweb of sewers across Allegheny County is the potential key to unlocking a major public health ...

The coronavirus could turn sewage surveillance into a mainstream public health practice. By Emily Anthes Marc Johnson saw trouble in the water. Dr. Johnson, a virologist at the University of Missouri, ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have narrowed down best practices for testing wastewater for COVID-19 in dorms. A collaboration among UVA Health and the university’s School of Medicine and ...

A new study from the United States (US) investigates the persistence (lifetime) of viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) under different ambient conditions within wastewater infrastructure to understand how it ...

The research offers some of the first clear guidance on the most effective methods to perform testing to detect COVID-19 in wastewater. Wastewater testing is an effective way to identify new cases of ...

The solids that entered the public sewages were suspended in the water and later made into sludge. The researchers estimate that the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the solids is based on the ...

For more evidence that coronavirus activity has been rising fast in the Sacramento area, look below us. Levels of the virus that causes COVID-19 detected in human wastewater have grown substantially ...