16-08-17 Ever thought of putting sewage on your plants? Scientists say thermally conditioned sewage sludge serves as an excellent fertilizer to improve soil properties. This was recently published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Nutrition. The major...

13-02-18 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, which established regulations for the discharge of pollutants to waterways and supported the building of sewage treatment plants. Despite these advances, sewage remains a major source of pharm...

12-06-14 A new study eases concerns that irrigating crops with water released from sewage treatment plants -- an increasingly common practice in arid（干旱的） areas of the world -- fosters emergence of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria that cause thousands...

11-10-11 Biologists have described only a few thousand different viruses so far, but a new study reveals a vast world of unseen viral diversity that exists right under our noses. A paper published on October 4 in the online journal mBio explores ordinary raw...