With every rinse of a sink and flush of a toilet, public health is becoming easier to track thanks to a growing practice known as wastewater monitoring or wastewater surveillance. "This is an ...

Marin officials are hoping that analysis of local wastewater will become an effective tool in addressing a surge of drug overdoses in the county, just as it was in stemming the spread of COVID-19. In ...

Bodily waste and other stuff that gets flushed down the toilet is no secret. In fact, it’s become public information. Under a new pilot program, human excrement is being tested, recorded and studied ...

Contracts are in place for a project that will test the wastewater of public schools in Missouri for signs of fentanyl and ...

In north Denver, next to the South Platte River is a series of big pools. This is Metro Water Recovery, a treatment plant — the state’s largest according to employees. On a visit there, you can see ...

A handful of Bay Area communities are now turning to their wastewater to track their opioid crisis. The same tech that is being used to track COVID will now help them track fentanyl and meth in hopes ...

A freighter ran aground in the Detroit River near the Renaissance Center on Thanksgiving morning, 2025. Canadian freighter refloated after running aground in Detroit River on Thanksgiving morning Read ...

Now that bird flu has been detected in animals in all 50 states, and nearly 70 cases have been confirmed in people, health officials are racing to find better and more reliable ways to track the virus ...

Testing wastewater was a key tool for detecting COVID-19 as that virus rampaged through the U.S. and Colorado when the pandemic hit. Now, water treatment utilities and public health officials are ...

A coalition of top scientists loaded its last set of wastewater samples for analysis Sunday after receiving the final word from San Diego County late last week that the work should cease due to a ...