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 ...

In north Denver, next to the South Platte River is a series of big pools. This is Metro Water Recovery, a treatment plant — the state’s largest according to employees. On a visit there, you can see ...

The Trump administration is proposing wastewater testing to try to ferret out data on illegal drug use in real time, ...

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 ...

The sewage in New England's exclusive Nantucket retreat is full of cocaine, according to local authorities, who this summer began testing it to monitor potential drug use in a popular summer getaway ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wastewater testing does a good job at detecting mpox infections, U.S. health officials said in a report Thursday that bolsters a push to use sewage to track more diseases. U.S. Centers ...

The program was shut down by the Province of Ontario in July 2024, citing duplication with a federal program. The City of ...

A newly launched statewide program to evaluate student drug use by testing wastewater has detected traces of cocaine and amphetamine in a majority of high schools across New Mexico. Results posted on ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M – As part of the Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s recent public health order on gun violence and drugs, the state is testing wastewater for opioids. Now we have results from schools ...