Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few people get as excited about wastewater as Thomas Fudge. He has good reason: He and his colleagues believe they have figured ...

Sewage sludge at the Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Plant before it is thickened for land use is pictured on Friday, February 14, 2025. In these bubbling basins, you’ll find some of the hardest workers ...

A man standing in a laboratory, writing in his notebook. A team led by Case van Genuchten, seen here in in a laboratory in India, has found a way to extract metallic arsenic from wastewater sludge.

A tractor applies biosolids to a field next to the Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Plant on February 22, 2025. In Lawrence, officials don’t think there’s much risk of harmful chemicals getting into the ...

For more than 40 years, the city of Columbia has applied tens of thousands of tons of wastewater sludge as fertilizer on farms across mid-Missouri. Now, it turns out its sludge contains “forever ...

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 ...

In a recent study published in Engineering, a research team from the Shenzhen Engineering Research Laboratory for Sludge and Food Waste Treatment and Resource Recovery has introduced a pioneering ...