sewage

a Circuit Court Judge recently refused the consent decree reached by the city of Lexington and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. the judge ordered that more of the agreed-upon penalty be reinvested into the infrastructure improvements required by the consent decree.

Our waste fertilizes our fields and is pumped back into the waterways that are our major sources of drinking water. Let’s take the journey from toilet to tap, shall we? A guest post from Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh.

The pollution in the Thi Vai river, near Saigon in Vietnam, has reached such a critical level that Japanese ships are now refusing to dock in the port for fear it will corrode their ships' hulls.

Scary facts about water quality.

Untreated sewage flowing into the sea from Gaza as we still cannot seem to rise above our differences and tackle the common environmental threat!

A family dog had to be rescued by emergency personnel after somehow slipping into a Montgomery County sewer.

Yussef Al-Jayar jolted awake this week when gallons of raw sewage spewed out of the pumping station next door and started to seep under his door and into his mattress.

Hawaii became the first in the nation to approve the use of the Xerolet Eco-System - an Alternative Onsite Wastewater Treatment System (AOWTS). The Xerolet has no need for a sewer connection, holding tank or septic system. Instead, this exciting new technology uses waste water from a variety of sources in the home to minimize water usage.

Authorities say it will take a few days to clean up the 100,000 gallon sewage spill near Roseville.

Fishing in certain parts of the Port Of Sacramento are closed tonight as crews try to clean and test the waters from thousands of gallons of raw sewage.

Millions of gallons of raw sewage have been dumped for years into the Cumberland River and taxpayers have to pay for this costly mistake.

Government and industry officials in Charles County, Maryland are creating an innovative sewage system that would use sanitized sewage water for cooling and generating power.

The Green Conservative points out that highways and bridges aren't the only elements of the national infrastructure in need of investment. Water and sewers plants, and our national parks are also important resources that are being systematically neglected...