You might say COVID-19 testing has gone down the drain. It doesn’t mean it’s no longer a problem. But it’s helping us know how big of a problem. People pass COVID-19 in their feces, which then flows ...

If you can get past the obvious ick factor, a city’s sewage contains an ocean of information. During the pandemic, for instance, Austin and other cities tracked COVID surges and new variants of the ...

TORONTO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Early in the pandemic, a few cities and countries around the world began testing sewage for evidence of the coronavirus, hoping to detect rising infections early. Now some ...

When Rosa Inchausti and her colleagues started testing wastewater in Tempe, Arizona, it was 2018 and they were not looking for coronavirus. They were tracking the opioid epidemic. But because they ...