One of humankind’s most precious fertilizers is slipping away. Phosphorus, which today comes mostly from nonrenewable reserves of phosphate rock, typically winds up in municipal waste streams. In the ...

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 ...

Harry Locker, laboratory director at the Endyne Inc. lab in Williston, with water samples to be tested for the presence of metals on Jan. 5. Vermont has new rules that require monitoring for toxic ...

Ideal sludge overflow detection begins with both level and pressure sensing working together on an IIoT platform.

New solids-free recycling system eliminates waste solids, cuts costs, and sets a new standard for produced water reuse. MIDLAND, Texas, Jan. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- WT Oil & Gas, in partnership with ...

MEDINA, Ohio -- The Medina County Solid Waste District is close to finishing its improvements to the Kenneth W. Hotz Water Reclamation Facility, which will include two anaerobic digesters that will ...

About 76 percent of a commonly used antimicrobial agent exits sewage-treatment plants as a component of the sludge that’s often used as a farm fertilizer, according to the first study to track the ...

It's a down and dirty fact of life: The stuff that gets flushed down the toilet has to end up somewhere. For the last three decades, the final destination for treated sewage sludge coming from ...