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Topic: Wastewater

Santa Cruz River in Southern Arizona (Courtesy of Michael Bogan)

How sewage helped restore a desert river

Matthew Rozsa
Children line up with bottles to get clean water on streets flooded with leaked sewage as the municipality announces the suspension of work in sewage treatment plants as they lack sufficient fuel due to Israel's attacks and blockade in Deir al Balah, Gaza on July 16, 2024. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Poliovirus detected in Gaza wastewater

Matthew Rozsa
Swetlana Rot prepares water samples in a laboratory of the Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Environmental Protection in Halle/Saale. The scientists here examine wastewater for the coronavirus pathogen. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COVID wastewater data is being distorted

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Wastewater treatment facility (Getty Images/Jupiterimages)

A new approach for wastewater facilities

Melita Jazbec, Andrea Turner, Ben Madden - The Conversation
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Wastewater samples for covid-19 analysis. ( DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty)

Wastewater monitoring and public health

Rochelle H. Holm - The Conversation
Plant Manager of the City of Los Angeles Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant points out the ongoing repairs to the underground pipe room that runs under much of the plant on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021 in Playa Del Rey, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Why we need to end big sewage

Chelsea Wald - Undark
A health worker wearing a personal protective equipment suit (PPE) take the cover off a manhole for inspection in Marseille. The COMETE unit (Covid Marseille Environmental Testing Expertise) collects samples of wastewater at various points in the city to determine the neighborhoods, schools or certain buildings contaminated by Covid-19 through testing of these samples. (Denis Thaust/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A new COVID detection tool: poop

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
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Swimming in a sea of drug residue

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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Big Oil wants to muddy up Texas waters

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
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Farmers turn to oil wastewater

Lindsay Abrams
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