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 ...

Now that bird flu has been detected in animals in all 50 states, and nearly 70 cases have been confirmed in people, health ...

San Diego County health officials have launched a new tool to monitor the spread of disease by testing local wastewater for ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Diego County's public health lab Wednesday began in-house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the ...

On the dashboard released Wednesday on the county's website, a summary chart breaks down how a virus is circulating in the ...

Testing wastewater was a key tool for detecting COVID-19 as that virus rampaged through the U.S. and Colorado when the pandemic hit. Now, water treatment utilities and public health officials are ...

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — On top of hospitalization and health department data, regional wastewater data across Virginia's seven testing sites point to an increase in the prevalence of COVID-19 in local ...