An environmental engineer, he invented a biological method to remove nitrogen and phosphorous from wastewater, an advance that transformed the industry worldwide.

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into ...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), have developed an innovative solar-powered method ...

With continuing population explosion and an increase in industrialization, the need for water is estimated to increase by 400% before the end of 2050. The pressing need to make treated wastewater ...

The content details various categories of AOPs—including ozone-based, radiation-driven, catalytic, and physical methods—highlighting their mechanisms, chemicals involved, ...

The sludge that is created through sewage treatment processes is rich in nutrients like phosphorous and nitrogen, making it an excellent source of fertilizer for agriculture. But not all that it ...

Treating hospital wastewater remains a major environmental and public-health challenge. Conventional methods such as membrane separation, oxidation, biological treatment, and chemical disinfection ...

Food Science professor Jen-Yi Huang leads a team creating a pilot-scale aquaculture system use algae for wastewater treatment. Experiments are underway to determine which algae variety will be most ...

Researchers in Sweden have created a method that now makes it possible to monitor sewage for a virus that is believed to be linked to hepatitis outbreaks worldwide. First developed for the Covid-19 ...

MWRA's Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant in Boston, Massachusetts. Photo courtesy of Massachusetts Water Resources Authority ...