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 ...

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 ...

Marin officials are hoping that analysis of local wastewater will become an effective tool in addressing a surge of drug overdoses in the county, just as it was in stemming the spread of COVID-19. In ...

Michigan health officials and researchers are planning to expand the state's wastewater surveillance system to include testing for the polio virus after evidence of the paralyzing virus was found in ...

In an evaluation of wastewater in Oregon, the measles virus was detected in more than 20% of samples tested during the measles outbreak in 2024.