Would you pay $49 a month to drink recycled wastewater?
One day, you’ll appreciate drinking recycled toilet water. Urban populations are growing as water supplies…
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Sustainability In Your Ear: Milwaukee’s Kevin Shafer on Circular Thinking in Wastewater Management
Every gallon of wastewater flowing through a municipal sewer contains recoverable energy, nutrients, and water—assets…
What a Visit to Stamford’s Wastewater and Recycling Facilities Reveals About Our Choices – State of the Planet
At the end of the summer term, students from Columbia University’s MPA in Environmental Science…
Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.
This article is co-published with ProPublica; it was created as part of the Local Reporting…
This Artificial Wetland Is Reusing Wastewater to Revive a Lost Ecosystem
In the arid region south of Mexicali, where the pale desert dominates the landscape, the…
Guest Idea: Rethinking Wastewater as a Valuable Biosolids
After visiting with DC Water’s Bloom Biosolids team on Sustainability In Your Ear, we invited…
Forever chemicals: Wastewater treatment plants funnel PFAS into drinking water
A wastewater treatment plant in CaliforniaJustin Sullivan/Getty Images Wastewater treatment facilities are a major source…
In arid New Mexico, a debate over reusing oil-industry wastewater
This story was originally co-published by Undark Magazine and the Santa Fe Reporter. This year, the…
Engineered bacteria destroy antibiotic resistance DNA in wastewater
Shewanella oneidensis bacteria could remove antibiotic resistance genes from wastewaterElla Maru Studio/Science Photo Library Bacteria…
Making wastewater less acidic could help the ocean capture more carbon
Altering wastewater released into the ocean could help store carbonstockphoto-graf / Alamy Reducing the acidity…