After sewage spill, feds order fixes at L.A. plant to limit further ...
Mar 22, 2024 · Years after a massive spill at a Los Angeles water treatment facility dumped millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Pacific, officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have...
California prepares to transform sewage into drinking water - Los ...
Dec 17, 2023 · California is set to approve regulations for transforming wastewater into pure drinking water. Experts say the highly treated water isn’t 'toilet-to-tap.'
Sewage often becomes fertilizer, but the issue is it's tainted ... - NPR
Apr 18, 2023 · As WBUR's Barbara Moran explains, all those so-called forever chemicals are going into wastewater treatment plants. The question now is, where do they go from there?
As Covid Emergency Ends, Surveillance Shifts to the Sewers
May 11, 2023 · As clinical testing drops off, wastewater surveillance will also be a key strategy for keeping tabs on new variants and for gauging the threat they pose, scientists said.
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Better sewage treatment critical for human health and …
Apr 5, 2019 · Sewage treatment plants greatly reduce the risk of disease by removing harmful substances from wastewater. However, the treatment process relies on a constant, reliable electricity supply—a luxury that a lot of developing countries do not have.
Why sewage may hold the key to tracking diseases far ... - Science News
Sep 20, 2023 · Why sewage may hold the key to tracking diseases far beyond COVID-19. A rapidly growing list of pathogens are detectable in wastewater. Testing wastewater at treatment plants can reveal the...
Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste …
Jan 25, 2022 · But antiquated, aging sewage treatment systems that service many developed countries, including the U.S., U.K. and EU nations, face equally serious waste conundrums. The most daunting problem ...
Wastewater is the infrastructure crisis ‘people don’t want to
Apr 9, 2021 · Drinking water service disruptions and flooding from sewer backups and other infrastructure failures cost U.S. households $2 billion in 2019. The ASCE predicts that figure will balloon to $14...
Rising flood risks threaten many water and sewage treatment …
Aug 10, 2023 · Across the U.S., municipal water systems and sewage treatment plants are at increasing risk of damage from floods and sea-level rise brought on in part or even wholly by climate change.