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How Chicago cleans 1.4 billion gallons of wastewater every day
The Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Illinois is one of the largest wastewater-treatment facilit…
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Scientist engineered bacteria to generate electricity from wastewater
Scientists have engineered E. coli bacteria -- the most widely studied microbe -- to generate elect…
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Importance of wastewater surveillance higher than individualised COVID screening in preventing future outbreaks: experts
Conventional detection methods testing each and every citizen for individual testing is a highly co…
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A brewery is making beer with recycled wastewater, purified using a process developed by NASA
The company relies on the same recycling methods that NASA uses to allow astronauts to drink water …
Katie Hawkinson
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Japan released treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean. Experts say it's safe, but one would avoid the fish.
Japan is releasing treated water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean. Some are conce…
Rupendra Brahambhatt
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Texans sound off against Elon Musk's 'horrifying' plans for dumping The Boring Company wastewater into Colorado River
Elon Musk's tunnel-building venture is facing blowback from Texans who spoke out against its plans …
Grace Kay
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I'm a COVID reporter — here are the 3 dashboards I check to gauge COVID rates in my area before making plans
After more than two years of covering COVID, the author developed a system for checking out how out…
Hilary Brueck
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The US Navy now knows why the water on an aircraft carrier looked and smelled strange. It had wastewater in it.
The Navy found E. coli in the water on USS Abraham Lincoln but said the bacteria was unrelated to t…
Jake Epstein
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COVID-19 experts say Omicron is peaking in the US, citing data from poop samples
There are some early indications that the Omicron wave may have peaked, at least in poop, but the n…
Hilary Brueck
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Hundreds may have contracted polio after the virus was detected in wastewater, New York Health Department warns
"What we do know is clear: the danger of polio is present in New York today," New York health offic…
Katie Balevic
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The toxic wastewater from the Ohio train crash is being sent 1,300 miles away to Texas, but local authorities weren't told until a week after it started arriving, county judge says
Lina Hidalgo, Harris County's chief executive, said she wasn't told the toxic water was coming and …
Matthew Loh
WATCH: New footage of a Florida wastewater reservoir that's leaking
Emergency crews are racing to stop the breach of a Tampa area wastewater reservoir that's leaking, …
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WATCH: New footage of a Florida wastewater reservoir that's leaking
Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency in Florida as a Tampa area reservoir leaks cont…
Kaitlyn Wang,Hannah Jiang,Hav…
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The levels of COVID-19 detected in wastewater show the Central Florida surge isn't slowing down, officials say
The COVID-19 RNA concentration in wastewater has risen 600% since mid-May, local health officials s…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Researchers in South Korea found an 'astonishingly large amount of Viagra' in wastewater near nightlife hot spots in Seoul
The levels of Sildenafil - known as Viagra - in Seoul's wastewater were 3-4 times higher than those…
Katie Warren
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Japan scrapped a cartoon mascot meant to promote its plan to dump Fukushima nuclear wastewater into the sea
The mascot was pulled after just one day because people thought the cuteness of the character did n…
Marianne Guenot
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A livestream shows the leaking Florida reservoir with millions of gallons of toxic wastewater that officials are worried could collapse
Florida officials have said that the 77-acre pond could flood nearby neighborhoods with polluted in…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Florida declares state of emergency as reservoir holding millions of gallons of radioactive wastewater 'could collapse' at any time
Residents ordered to evacuate over fears for the pond in the Tampa Bay area, which stores 500 milli…
Sophia Ankel
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Indian scientists find COVID-19 gene in wastewater, hailed by global community
"I would like to congratulate India as one of the elite nations in world-wide efforts in detecting …
PTI
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Florida officials are evacuating residents around a leaking toxic wastewater reservoir. The local jail is moving inmates to the upper floor, CBS reports.
Hundreds of inmates at the Manatee County Jail are being moved to upper-level floors at the facilit…