BOSTON, Mass. — Stool holds a vital role in a very useful public health tool called water-based epidemiology. "I think it can be useful to give an early signal that there's increased disease activity, ...

Water treatment systems are indispensable for maintaining public health and preserving ecosystem integrity. The application of emergy analysis in this domain provides a comprehensive framework that ...

On Monday, Edwin Oh led UNLV administrators on a tour through the lab where he and his colleagues study sewer water. Since its inception in 2020, Oh’s wastewater analysis program has been able to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, research showed that people ...

TORONTO — In a presentation at IAFP’s 2023 Annual Meeting, Kali Kniel, Ph.D., from the University of Delaware Department of Animal and Food Sciences, shed light on the importance of wastewater ...

Benzene, ethylbenzene detected in sewage from homes under smoke cloud; researchers want future focus on first responder ...

In a previous article, I described the BA.2.86 SARS-CoV-2 variant in detail. Here, I provide an update on its status in the United States. The latest iteration of Omicron, BA.2.86, is here, and we ...

As COVID-19 testing rates have plummeted, one tool is becoming increasingly important for understanding the state of the pandemic: sewage surveillance. Regional wastewater paints a stark picture of a ...

PCR and rapid tests aren’t the only places where evidence of SARS-CoV-2 shows up. The virus that causes COVID-19 also turns up in a city’s wastewater, which has become a powerful tool during the ...

A widely known producer of dressings, sauces, vegetable dips, herbs, and cheeses creates an estimated 75,000 gallons of wastewater each day in its manufacturing process at one of its North America ...