In north Denver, next to the South Platte River is a series of big pools. This is Metro Water Recovery, a treatment plant — the state’s largest according to employees. On a visit there, you can see ...

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — A lab at Ferris State University is using a new wastewater testing program to help forecast possible infectious disease outbreaks on campus and in surrounding communities. The ...

The State Hygienic Lab in Coralville now can test wastewater for influenza, which gives public health officials advance warning of a spike in their community before positive flu tests show up at ...

San Diego County is once again tracking the spread of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses through wastewater testing. KPBS health reporter Heidi de Marco explains why this matters and what the ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- In a BioSafety Level 2 lab at U.C. Berkeley, scientists spend all day looking at wastewater. At first read, it may sound gross but it is the work of a lifetime for scientists ...

New county lab uses wastewater testing to track flu, RSV and COVID-19 outbreaks, delivering results in two weeks with state-of-the-art technology. SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A new San Diego County laboratory ...

Sampling Truckee Meadows wastewater for the SARS-CoV-2 virus found a very clear upward spike approximately seven days before the spike appeared in the community in the form of people testing positive ...

Influenza virus binding to a respiratory tract cell. (File photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) San Diego County’s public health lab announced that it has begun publishing the ...

San Diego County's public health lab Wednesday began in- house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the community, with the results published on an online public dashboard. Sewage water ...