With every rinse of a sink and flush of a toilet, public health is becoming easier to track thanks to a growing practice known as wastewater monitoring or wastewater surveillance. "This is an ...

COVID-19 cases have slowed down over the past several months, but it is important that campus safety officials do everything in their power to keep the virus out of the classroom and off of campus to ...

As wastewater testing continues to prove useful in estimating the spread of the coronavirus, scientists again are using sewage to track the latest public health emergency: monkeypox. In late June — ...

Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — In the wake of the Walkerton tragedy in 2000 when seven people died and 2,300 were sickened by an E. coli breakout in the Ontario town’s drinking water, Justice Dennis ...

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 ...

In September 2020, the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials and researchers started hunting for signs of the virus' spread in an unexpected place: our poop. Samples of municipal ...

Michigan health officials and researchers are planning to expand the state's wastewater surveillance system to include testing for the polio virus after evidence of the paralyzing virus was found in ...

Kata Farkas receives funding from the Welsh Government. Davey Jones receives funding from Welsh Government and the UK Health Security Agency. Small traces of many pathogens, such as viruses we may be ...

In an evaluation of wastewater in Oregon, the measles virus was detected in more than 20% of samples tested during the measles outbreak in 2024.

In the current era of global climate change, the scarcity of clean drinking water is becoming a critical issue due to natural and human causes. The increase in economic activities, urbanization, and ...