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.

A controversial stand-alone wastewater treatment system will move forward in Mashpee after voters decided in favor of the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rapid population growth and urbanization have raised concerns over stormwater runoff contamination. Studies on watersheds indicate that excess nutrients, specifically nitrate -- nitrogen and soluble ...

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 ...