Wastewater is laden with valuable community data
Our wastewater can signal when a community is sick, sad, or polluting. It also offers important signs for when life is getting better.
Just about everything ends up at a sewage facility before being cleansed and discharged into a loca...
State-Of-The-Art Wastewater Analysis Systems Will Be Key To Guarding Public Health In The Future
COVID-19 unleashed the worst public health crisis of our lifetimes, but it also revealed some of our strongest heroes and assets.
Much-deserved praise has gone to healthcare workers, vaccine scientists, and the supply chain employees...
Looking for a More Purpose-Driven Career? There Is a Global Shortage for This Vital Role.
Young Americans are emerging from the pandemic with a new view of work. A job is no longer just a paycheck. It's a chance to do something meaningful, to make an impact on society while also making a living.
As many engineers search...
Digital wastewater: The quiet revolution that's tackling generational challenges
Water utilities have become America's unexpected source of front-page news, enduring multiple 'once-in-a-century' events in recent years. Droughts, pollution, unprecedented cold, flooding, and storms all take their toll on our infrastructur...
The Future Of Wastewater: Why Has The U.S. Been So Slow To Adopt AI Tools?
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have revolutionized our lives, but some sectors have been slower to adopt smart solutions than others. Despite AI systems underpinning everything from power grid regulation to Google's search to...
Crack down on chemicals in our water
The Denver Department of Public Health and Environment's decision last week to close Sloan's Lake to recreation and fishing because of blue-green algae bloom brought into stark focus the dangers of fertilizers and other chemical pollutants en...
Down to the last drop
Set in a desert, surrounded by hostile neighbors, and home to a literal Dead Sea, Israel faces one of the most precarious water situations in the world. But because the natural resource is so scarce, Israel has learned to make the most of every d...
Crumbling Water Facilities Need Central Role in Infrastructure Proposals
Headlines for President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure bill are mainly about roads and bridges, but the most pressing public health need is buried underground and out of sight.
America's network of drinking water plants, wast...
Recycling water has to become the norm, because it is too scarce and too valuable to waste
Like millions of teens around the world, my daughter enjoys long showers. Unlike many fathers of teens, however, I see a bright side to the family water bill.
We're not just taking showers. We're growing grapes.
Our f...
With deepening drought in the West, farmers could make a bigger difference
The American West is suffering from the worst drought of our lifetimes - a two-decade dearth of precipitation, perhaps the most punishing megadrought of the past 1,200 years - and much attention is focused on water waste at home.
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