The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is proposing a $3 million pilot project to test sewage from Knoxville-area high schools, college dorms and other locations for illicit drugs, Director David ...

San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility Deputy Director Amit Mutsuddy demonstrates how the agency staff collects primary sludge samples to send to a lab to test for various viruses, ...

Across the country, cities and universities are testing sewage to monitor the virus. Studies suggest it's a useful way to augment standard person-by-person coronavirus testing and while a sewage ...

The future of disease tracking is going down the drain — literally. Flushed with success over detecting coronavirus in wastewater, and even specific variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID ...

Contracts are in place for a project that will test the wastewater of public schools in Missouri for signs of fentanyl and ...

You might say COVID-19 testing has gone down the drain. It doesn’t mean it’s no longer a problem. But it’s helping us know how big of a problem. People pass COVID-19 in their feces, which then flows ...

If you can get past the obvious ick factor, a city’s sewage contains an ocean of information. During the pandemic, for instance, Austin and other cities tracked COVID surges and new variants of the ...

TORONTO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Early in the pandemic, a few cities and countries around the world began testing sewage for evidence of the coronavirus, hoping to detect rising infections early. Now some ...

(TNS) — With emergency declarations repealed and mask and other mandates expired, the virus behind COVID-19 is still showing up in Traverse City's wastewater. But trends since the start of 2023 show ...