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 ...

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 ...

Odor detection, odor recognition and nuisance odor levels were common topics Monday night, as the Plainfield Township Planning Commission continued to review the proposed sewage sludge processing ...

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 ...

Standing on stage during a highly anticipated town meeting, microphone in hand, Spruce Pine Town Manager Darlene Butler responded to a question about lessons learned in the aftermath of the ...

Scientists have developed an improved method to convert municipal wastewater sludge into higher quality renewable fuel while ...

A septic tank functions beautifully until it doesn't. When a septic tank or field line ceases to function properly, E. coli and other bacteria will leak. It can move into the surrounding land or ...

The processing of foods typically generates a lot of wastewater, which has to be cleaned up before being released back into local waterways. According to new research, however, that water could first ...

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 ...