The 1960s and 1970s were a golden age of infrastructure development in the U.S., with the expansion of the interstate system and widespread construction of new water treatment, wastewater and flood control systems reflecting ...
Environment
Sep 8, 2022
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Upgrades to a wastewater treatment plant along Ontario's Grand River led to a 70 per cent drop in fish that have both male and female characteristics within one year and a full recovery of the fish population within three ...
Environment
Jan 10, 2017
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UNSW researchers are using 'wonder material' graphene to generate sustainable energy in municipal wastewater treatment plants.
Nanomaterials
Oct 10, 2019
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Washington State University researchers have shown the fundamental mechanisms that allow tiny pieces of plastic bags and foam packaging at the nanoscale to move through the environment.
Environment
Apr 28, 2021
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You may not always think about it when you do your laundry or flush the toilet, but whatever you eat, wear or apply on your skin ends up in wastewater and eventually reaches the environment. The use of nanoparticles in consumer ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 18, 2019
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Conventional wastewater disinfection using chlorine could facilitate the spread of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria. Treating some types of wastewater with ultraviolet (UV) light instead could be part of the solution, ...
Environment
Jan 8, 2020
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Can antibiotic-resistant bacteria escape from sewers into waterways and cause a disease outbreak?
Environment
Jul 6, 2020
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Peering over the side of his skiff anchored in the middle of New Hampshire's Great Bay, Fred Short liked what he saw.
Environment
Dec 22, 2019
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Nitrification plays a key role in Earth's natural nitrogen cycle and in agriculture. Now an international team of scientists led by Holger Daims and Michael Wagner, microbiologists at the University of Vienna, has discovered ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 30, 2015
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There's nothing new in treating water by sorption of organic solvents such as trichloroethylene (TCE). But finding a method that neutralizes these contaminants, instead of just shifting them somewhere else, is no mean feat. ...
Materials Science
Sep 9, 2019
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