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...

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...

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...

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...

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...