(TNS) - With COVID-19 here to stay — albeit in a less lethal, endemic form — scientists hope the monitoring of traces of the virus in wastewater will eventually serve as an early warning system, ...

Clean water is essential to our environment and quality of life. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) includes National Pretreatment Program elements developed by USEPA to ...

Since September 2020, University of California, Davis, researchers have been monitoring wastewater on the UC Davis campus and in the city of Davis for COVID-19 through the Healthy Davis Together ...

Should you still wear a mask in public? Is it safe to attend concerts or travel right now? Experts are increasingly recommending that we consult COVID-19 wastewater data to make decisions like these.

Visit the CDC's online resource center for more information on the wastewater viral activity level and data calculation methods. The United States is experiencing high levels of SARS-CoV-2 viral ...

The researchers tested raw sewage samples collected twice a week from two treatment plants in central Pennsylvania for non-typhoidal Salmonella and characterized isolates using whole genome sequencing ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has mainstreamed wastewater-based epidemiology, which analyzes sewage to detect disease outbreaks. Biobot Analytics can identify current community levels of disease and opioid ...

It didn’t smell as bad as I thought it would. Sort of like going-bad ocean water but without the salt. It doesn’t look as nasty as I thought, either, but it’s important to maintain a sense of ...

To better understand infectious diseases at the community level, wastewater in Cary could soon be tested for Respiratory Syncytial Virus, monkeypox and other viruses. The Town of Cary has extended its ...

ROCHESTER — One month ago, Olmsted County confirmed its first measles case of 2025. While the public learned about the case on Friday, Oct. 17, testing by WastewaterSCAN detected measles in ...