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 ...

A report “Safe for Swimming?” undertaken in 2024 and published by Environment Massachusetts reported on fecal contamination in Mass. coastal waters.

Feb. 19—Despite the county's Public Health Services Department reporting omicron was first confirmed in Kern on Jan. 4, the department said it knew omicron was "likely" present in December through ...

Ownership of an underused sewage treatment plant on Joint Base Cape Cod is currently in the process of being transferred to a private investment firm that aims to use it to handle regional wastewater ...

Each Tuesday, a team of scientists at the University of Alaska Anchorage spend much of their day carefully extracting and testing microscopic strands of ribonucleic acid found in a jug of wastewater ...

The island is one of the first to look at foam as a possible PFAS exposure risk. Here’s what test results say so far.