At the Spartanburg sewage processing plant, everything that comes from your home or business ends up at their processing plant. That is where they clean it out and all the water goes through a process ...

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 ...

With the flush of a toilet or the removal of a bathtub drain, the water within disappears in a final, tiny whirlpool never to be seen again. Well, not quite. Discharged water eventually makes its way ...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment image: Researchers Jeremy Guest, right, and Yalin Li led a team at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy ...