Advanced wastewater treatments may create unexpected environmental risks

Advanced wastewater treatments may create unexpected environmental risks

Advanced wastewater treatment technologies are widely used to remove pollutants and pathogens before treated water is discharged or reused.

Advanced wastewater treatment may generate hidden endocrine risks, study

Advanced wastewater treatment is widely regarded as a final safeguard before treated water is released into rivers or reused. Yet new research suggests that some of the most powerful purification technologies may carry a hidden trade-off: they can reduce certain hormone-disrupting effects while intensifying another. In a study of wastewater from Tianjin, China, researchers found […]