For virus tracking, wastewater is liquid gold. Scientists hope that work isn’t flushed away

For more than two years, research teams across the country — and around the world — have been using human waste to monitor rising and falling SARS-CoV-2 levels. The same sewage surveillance systems can track pathogens from polio to monkeypox. So what’s the future of wastewater testing?

Wastewater injections set off a Kansas earthquake binge

Enlarge / Known earthquakes 1867-2013 shown with red triangles, and earthquakes 2013-2016 shown with gray circles—notably clustered in a small area near the Oklahoma border where wastewater was injected underground. (credit: Rubinstein et al/BSSA) In the past decade, Oklahoma has turned heads as it has joined the list of places where earthquake insurance is a […]

Sewers paved with gold? $1.8m worth of precious metals turn up in Swiss wastewater

Published time: 12 Oct, 2017 05:06 The next gold rush could be brewing beneath the streets of Switzerland if a new study from the country’s water research body is to be believed. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, known as EAWAG, its German acronym, surveyed 64 wastewater treatment plants across […]

Sewers paved with gold? $1.8m worth of precious metals turn up in Swiss wastewater

Published time: 12 Oct, 2017 05:06 The next gold rush could be brewing beneath the streets of Switzerland if a new study from the country’s water research body is to be believed. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, known as EAWAG, its German acronym, surveyed 64 wastewater treatment plants across […]