With every rinse of a sink and flush of a toilet, public health is becoming easier to track thanks to a growing practice known as wastewater monitoring or wastewater surveillance. "This is an ...

Lessons learned during COVID-19 are helping health officials keep us safer from other pathogens. Wastewater testing, which became widely used during the pandemic, is becoming more common for things ...

New Covid-19 infections are no longer tracked or reported as closely as they were during the public health emergency. Instead, US officials now focus on testing the contents of Americans’ wastewater ...

Colorado is using wastewater testing to identify communities with measles infections before the cases show up in the clinic.

Wastewater testing shows that COVID-19 cases have declined since early June and that the omicron subvariant BA.5 is the dominant strain of the virus in Hawaii, according to the state Department of ...

A handful of Bay Area communities are now turning to their wastewater to track their opioid crisis. The same tech that is being used to track COVID will now help them track fentanyl and meth in hopes ...

As researchers increasingly rely on wastewater testing to monitor the spread of bird flu, some are questioning the reliability of the tests being used. Above, the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in ...