16-04-19 A new study by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Medical Center shows that eating vegetables and fruits grown in soils irrigated with reclaimed wastewater exposes consumers to minute quantit...

14-07-04 The dramatic increase in earthquakes in central Oklahoma since 2009 is likely attributable to subsurface wastewater injection at just a handful of disposal wells, finds a new study to be published in the journal Science on July 3, 2014. The research...

14-05-04 Oil and gas development activities, including underground disposal of wastewater and hydraulic（液压的） fracturing, may induce earthquakes by changing the state of stress on existing faults to the point of failure. Earthquakes from wastewater dispo...

13-03-27 A new study in the journal Geology is the latest to tie a string of unusual earthquakes, in this case, in central Oklahoma, to the injection of wastewater deep underground. Researchers now say that the magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Prague, Okla., on...

12-08-14 Engineers at Oregon State University have made a breakthrough in the performance of microbial fuel cells that can produce electricity directly from wastewater, opening the door to a future in which waste treatment plants not only will power themselv...

11-11-15 A new University of Minnesota study reveals that treated municipal（市政的） wastewater -- even wastewater treated by the highest-quality treatment technology -- can result in significant quantities of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, often referred t...

11-01-04 A recent study by a team of researchers at the University of Arizona has tracked the incident of pathogens in biosolids（有机污泥） over a 19 year period in one major U.S. city. In the same study, the researchers also analyzed pathogen levels in bio...