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 ...

All wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) require upkeep and reinvestment to maintain efficacy and efficiency, and these improvements, which require infrastructure and equipment investments, frequently ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to the treatment and control of bacterial infections. Ever since the introduction of antibiotics into clinical use resistance to these antibiotics has emerged ...

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 ...

Researchers have exploited bacteria they found in sewage plants to detoxify tetrachloroethene, a common chemical used to dry-clean clothes that can contaminate air and water (ACS ES&T Eng. 2025, DOI: ...

A new process uses bacteria to filter wastewater while creating electricity. Whether wastewater is full of "waste" is a matter of perspective. "Why is it waste?" asked Zhen (Jason) He, professor in ...

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Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new way to treat sewage that is much simpler, cheaper and greener than existing methods. Led by Associate Professor He ...