COVID-19 cases have slowed down over the past several months, but it is important that campus safety officials do everything in their power to keep the virus out of the classroom and off of campus to ...

The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority's wastewater treatment plant. Hiding deep in the sprawling spiderweb of sewers across Allegheny County is the potential key to unlocking a major public health ...

In September 2020, the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials and researchers started hunting for signs of the virus' spread in an unexpected place: our poop. Samples of municipal ...

Peering into wastewater for public health has a history dating back at least to the late 19 th century, when a biologist in Boston cultured sewage in beef jelly, bouillon, boiled potatoes, and milk to ...

Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — In the wake of the Walkerton tragedy in 2000 when seven people died and 2,300 were sickened by an E. coli breakout in the Ontario town’s drinking water, Justice Dennis ...

In the current era of global climate change, the scarcity of clean drinking water is becoming a critical issue due to natural and human causes. The increase in economic activities, urbanization, and ...