Zapping municipal waste helps recover valuable phosphorus fertilizer
One of humankind's most precious fertilizers is slipping away.
Environment
Jun 28, 2023
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News tagged with municipal wastewater
In India, natural ways to clean up wastewater promise big benefits
European researchers are working alongside Indian experts to rethink the collection, decontamination and reuse of sewage in the world's most populous country.
Environment
Apr 20, 2023
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Using biochar to remove antibiotics from wastewater
To feed the world's growing population, farmers need to grow a lot of crops. Crops need water to grow and thrive, and the water used to irrigate crops makes up an estimated 70% of global freshwater use. But many areas across ...
Biotechnology
Feb 20, 2023
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Even state-of-the-art treatment plants do not eliminate all industrial contaminants
Certain sources of chemical pollution of the aquatic environment, such as agriculture or municipal wastewater, are now reasonably well known. But knowledge of the quantities and diversity of synthetic organic compounds released ...
Environment
Jul 19, 2022
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Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world's fast-rising wastewater streams
Vast amounts of valuable energy, agricultural nutrients, and water could potentially be recovered from the world's fast-rising volume of municipal wastewater, according to a new study by UN University's Canadian-based Institute ...
Environment
Feb 3, 2020
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Technology turns municipal wastewater algae into specialty chemicals for biofuels, bioplastics
A startup is advancing a unique way to transform algae used to purify municipal wastewater into specialty bio-based chemicals such as biofuels or bioplastics that could help reduce the risk of toxic algae blooms that often ...
Environment
Apr 5, 2019
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Toward net energy wastewater treatment using current technology
Municipal wastewater treatment in Europe consumes the energy equivalent of around two power stations per year – but could actually be generating the energy of 12. The EU-funded POWERSTEP project demonstrates how to make ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 20, 2018
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Municipal wastewater can be used to track diseases in UH study
A new study led by Tao Yan, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa surveyed Honolulu's municipal wastewater system and determined that bacterial pathogen information collected ...
Environment
May 25, 2018
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Alternative antimicrobial compounds could come from wastewater
Municipal wastewater may become a key ally in the fight against antibiotic-resistant disease-causing bacteria and fungi, a new study at Stellenbosch University (SU) found.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2017
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Researchers develop membranes that remove viruses from drinking water
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed novel ultrafiltration membranes that significantly improve the virus-removal process from ...
Materials Science
Apr 19, 2017
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