Few people get as excited about wastewater as Thomas Fudge. He has good reason: He and his colleagues believe they have figured out how to turn sludge into gold. Wastewater from places like breweries ...

What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients, they can be ...

Sewage sludge is usually the part nobody wants to think about. It is costly to handle, hard to get rid of, and after treatment, much of it still ends up in landfills. A Washington State University ...

Every day, millions of gallons of water carrying a valuable resource slosh beneath our feet in a complex network of pipes. Wastewater flows from household tubs, sinks and toilets — carrying sudsy soap ...

Environmental advocates are renewing calls to ban the use of sewage sludge — or "biosolids" — as fertilizer, after an Environmental Protection Agency draft report found there may be health risks ...

New research suggests national climate inventories are underestimating methane and nitrous oxide from wastewater systems by ...