By returning nutrients recovered from wastewater to agricultural soils, sewage sludge helps close nutrient cycles and reduces ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Buffalo Sewer Authority (BSA), established in 1935, cleans the wastewater produced by more than 500,000 people in Buffalo and several other municipalities. It operates the second ...

WASHINGTON — What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients ...

Many sewage treatment plants are equipped to process waste using anaerobic digestion, in which the sewage sludge is held in an oxygen-free chamber to ferment and break down. As part of that ...

A Waterkeeper Alliance study found "forever chemicals" present in 98% of U.S. surface waters, with wastewater treatment plants being a significant source. While industrial dischargers are a primary ...

What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients, they can be ...

Sewer water is filtered through the final clarifiers before it's chlorinated and pumped back into Lake Ontario. The Town of Webster Sewer Department is upgrading its wastewater treatment plant to ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. What comes out of our wastewater treatment plants may not be very appealing, but the real problem is what is left behind after water ...

At a sprawling sewage treatment plant in north San Jose, engineers are slowly perfecting the ideal temperature for a smelly mixture of bacteria and human waste as the stew churns inside four massive ...