News tagged with sewage
Sewage water bacteria helps fill 'missing link' in early evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- A common group of bacteria found in acid bogs and sewage treatment plants has provided scientists with evidence of a ‘missing link’ in one of the most important steps in the evolution ...
Dec 07, 2010 |
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UK town using fuel from human waste
(PhysOrg.com) -- A town in Oxfordshire has become the first in the UK to have biomethane gas generated from human waste piped to their homes for gas central heating and cooking.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 07, 2010 |
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Cleaning up slum life with sewage cycle
Pedal power may hold the answer to cheap and efficient sewage removal in some of the world’s poorest slums – if the work of a Cambridge University researcher can be taken into large-scale production.
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Nile Delta fishery grows dramatically thanks to run-off of sewage, fertilizers
While many of the world's fisheries are in serious decline, the coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded dramatically since the 1980s.
Jan 19, 2009 |
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City buses turn to sewage for 'clean' fuel
Can the key to "clean" energy be found down in the sewer? That's the idea in Oslo, where city officials soon plan to introduce buses that run on biofuels extracted from human waste.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Two-in-one device uses sewage as fuel to make electricity and clean the sewage
Scientists today described a new and more efficient version of an innovative device the size of a home washing machine that uses bacteria growing in municipal sewage to make electricity and clean up the sewage at the same ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Household sewage: Not waste, but a vast new energy resource
In a finding that gives new meaning to the adage, "waste not, want not," scientists are reporting that household sewage has far more potential as an alternative energy source than previously thought. They say the discovery, ...
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Wild sharks, redfish harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Scientists have found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in seven species of sharks and redfish captured in waters off Belize, Florida, Louisiana and Massachusetts. Most of these wild, free-swimming fish harbored ...
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Raw sewage: Home to millions of undescribed viruses
Biologists have described only a few thousand different viruses so far, but a new study reveals a vast world of unseen viral diversity that exists right under our noses. A paper to be published Tuesday, October 4 in the online ...
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Biodiesel from sewage sludge within pennies a gallon of being competitive
Existing technology can produce biodiesel fuel from municipal sewage sludge that is within a few cents a gallon of being competitive with conventional diesel refined from petroleum, according to an article ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 20, 2010 |
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Study: Range of pharmaceuticals in fish across US
(AP) -- Fish caught near wastewater treatment plants serving five major U.S. cities had residues of pharmaceuticals in them, including medicines used to treat high cholesterol, allergies, high blood pressure, bipolar disorder ...
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Evidence of increasing antibiotic resistance
A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands are reporting disturbing evidence that soil microbes have become progressively more resistant to antibiotics over the last 60 years. Surprisingly, ...
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Giant China algae slick getting bigger: report
A floating expanse of green algae floating off China's eastern seaboard is growing and spreading further along the coast, state-run media has reported.
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Report suggests more rigorous assessment of nanosilver use
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published in the journal Science suggests the risks to the environment of nanosilver used in consumer goods should be examined more stringently.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Wastewater clues to illicit drug use
A new chemical analysis of sewage is revealing more detailed information than ever about drug abuse trends.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 22, 2012 |
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