Posts for tag "wastewater"
Tracking Opioids in Municipal Wastewater
New work on monitoring wastewater for opioids reveals many new applications for the technology.
- Posted June 3, 2019
Cleaning Up the Charles River, Inspired By Nature
Over time, the Charles River Watershed Association has used good science and careful monitoring to clean up the Charles River substantially.
- Posted August 31, 2018
Washington Leading on Water Quality with New Winery Permit
The state of Washington’s Department of Ecology together with local wineries created a winery permit focused on maintaining water quality.
- Posted August 15, 2018
Simple, Brilliant Water Quality Fixes From Environmental Engineering
A team of engineers has created multiple simple fixes for water quality problems, from stagnating water tower tanks to treatment of micropollutants.
- Posted April 17, 2018
Study of New York Wastewater Treatment Facilities Offers Nuanced View
Research focusing on New York State wastewater treatment facilities shows that medium-sized facilities are the most effective, highlights future challenges.
- Posted April 16, 2018
Double Disinfection for Wastewater More Effective, and Greener
A double disinfection process subjecting wastewater to low levels of chlorine and then low levels of UV light is most effective at killing pathogenic organisms.
- Posted March 30, 2018
Titanium Dioxide Nanofibers Removing Diazepam from Wastewater
South African researchers have developed a technology using titanium dioxide nanofibers for removing Diazepam and other compounds from wastewater.
- Posted March 12, 2018
Retracing Sucralose’s Steps: From Surface Waters to Points of Wastewater Contamination
Researchers are using sucralose as a tool for detecting and tracking wastewater contamination in water.
- Posted February 7, 2018
Eureka! Scientists Using Chemistry to Filter Silver Nanoparticles Out of Wastewater
Researchers have developed a technology for removing silver nanoparticles from laundry wastewater, reducing environmental risks.
- Posted February 2, 2018
Electricity as Purification Reagent in New, Low-Energy Wastewater Purification System
Researchers have developed a low-energy wastewater purification system that uses electricity to remove up to 99% of difficult to treat organic compounds.
- Posted December 19, 2017
Mapping Wastewater Treatment Systems In Linn County, Iowa
Staff in Iowa’s Linn County Public Health Department use GPS receivers to map private wastewater treatment systems.
- Posted February 12, 2016
EPA Tracking Water Quality After Gold King Mine Spill
After the accidental Gold King Mine spill in Colorado, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking a two-pronged approach to clean it up, according to a Scientific American article. EPA workers accidentally dislodged a wall holding back...
- Posted August 25, 2015
Study finds wastewater injections behind increase in Oklahoma earthquakes
More earthquakes than usual have been hitting Oklahoma lately. While researchers say those quakes would have happened anyway, oil production practices are making them happen much sooner than usual, according to a release from Stanford University’s School...
- Posted June 30, 2015
Wastewater injection wells linked to increased earthquakes throughout central and eastern U.S.
Wastewater injection wells used to dispose fluids from hydraulic fracturing operations are causing earthquakes throughout the central and eastern U.S.
- Posted April 22, 2015
New, simpler method of oil and gas wastewater treatment creates energy too
Engineers from the University of Colorado Boulder and New Mexico State University have found a way to treat wastewater from the oil and gas industry that is simpler, cheaper, and creates energy in the process. Their method,...
- Posted March 12, 2015
Wastewater’s greenhouse gas emission estimations improved
Concordia University has announced the development of a new model that will help researchers better estimate the amount of greenhouse gas emissions in wastewater resulting from pulp and paper manufacturing. Greenhouse gas emission estimates have previously been...
- Posted March 11, 2013
