The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is proposing a $3 million pilot project to test sewage from Knoxville-area high schools, college dorms and other locations for illicit drugs, Director David ...

Contracts are in place for a project that will test the wastewater of public schools in Missouri for signs of fentanyl and other drug use.

The future of disease tracking is going down the drain — literally. Flushed with success over detecting coronavirus in wastewater, and even specific variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID ...

Across the country, cities and universities are testing sewage to monitor the virus. Studies suggest it's a useful way to augment standard person-by-person coronavirus testing and while a sewage ...

The declared state of emergency for COVID-19 pandemic may be over, but the virus isn’t totally gone. KPBS Health Reporter Matt Hoffman says a program to track COVID and other virus’ in our wastewater ...

San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility Deputy Director Amit Mutsuddy demonstrates how the agency staff collects primary sludge samples to send to a lab to test for various viruses, ...

If you can get past the obvious ick factor, a city’s sewage contains an ocean of information. During the pandemic, for instance, Austin and other cities tracked COVID surges and new variants of the ...

TORONTO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Early in the pandemic, a few cities and countries around the world began testing sewage for evidence of the coronavirus, hoping to detect rising infections early. Now some ...