MUSCATINE, Iowa — Muscatine is testing a natural solution to treat some of its wastewater. The Muscatine Water and Resource Recovery Facility installed a new Rotating Algal Biofilm System this month.
Mashpee residents spent hours discussing a controversial wastewater system at town meeting but approved it. Now it needs to ...
A new research facility on Long Island will study how to remove nitrogen and other harmful contaminants from wastewater. The facility will help protect drinking water and the environment. Scientists, ...
Researchers have discovered a new strain of bacterium that can remove both nitrogen and phosphorous from sewage wastewater. Their findings offer a simpler, cheaper and greener method of wastewater ...
A recent study from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and published in Water Research discusses how a new technique ...
Wastewater containing nutrients like ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and phosphates have been identified as the main cause of eutrophication in natural waters. Therefore, a suitable treatment is needed. In ...
Nitrogen and phosphorus are two of the key pollutants that have to be removed from sewage, and doing so typically involves two separate steps. Thanks to a newly-discovered bacterium, however, both ...
Iowa's largest sewage treatment plant is investing $19 million in new equipment that will reduce the amount of a harmful contaminant commonly found in the state’s waterways. Phosphorus does not pose ...
Rapid population growth and urbanization have raised concerns over stormwater runoff contamination. Studies on watersheds indicate that excess nutrients, specifically nitrate -- nitrogen and soluble ...