• Gas Well Drilling Brine Challenges Water Treatment Plants

• U.S. to Prepare Chemical Weapons Waste Treatment Plan

• Maker's Mark fuels operations
  with bourbon waste
  
  

• Sewage That's Clean Enough to Drink
  
  

• U.S. to Prepare Chemical Weapons Waste Treatment Plan

• Veolia to begin accepting shipments to Sarin wastewater
  $49 million contract with the Army

• Questions are emerging over Spokane County’s desire to buy a $142 million wastewater treatment

• Springfield Metro Sanitary District has approved $95 million in bonds for phases of its new Spring Creek Wastewater Treatment plant.

• USGS: Chemicals Remain in Public Drinking Water After Treatment
  Water from nine selected rivers used as sources for public water
  
  

• Fish in the San Francisco Estuary are contaminated before birth with a toxic mix of chemicals
  
  

• Assistant superintendent at Columbia’s sewer plant reassigned pending the outcome of a criminal investigation

• Zimbabwe 'set for cholera jump'
  Possible 60,000 cholera cases in coming weeks
  
  

• Will remain the nation's largest sewage facility that doesn't have at least a plan to meet the federally mandated "secondary" treatment level to remove solids
  
  

• Philip Morris uses man-made wetlands to filter wastewater from Virginia plant

• EPA agrees to exempt wastewater plant a third time
  Won a bet worth up to $1.5 billion Thursday

• Algae blooms do billions in damage
  
  

• Scientists Turn SF Wastewater Into Fertilizer

• Biomass production with wastewater solves water and fertilizer bottlenecks
  
  

• BC cleantech uses municipal wastewater to make fertilizer

• Sewers to Sinks
  A drought-stricken California county has found a new source of water: its toilets
  
  

• A troubled urban habitat in the shadow of the MOA
  
  

• 'Cancer village' the dark side of Vietnam's industrial boom
  
  

• River map shows who uses the water
  Insets chart the presence of sewage treatment plants, mercury, pesticides, fecal bacteria and other contaminants

• Antibiotic resistance genes in sewage bacteria getting around wastewater treatment and sneaking into the environment.

• Fifteen of the 101 highest-hazard U.S. chemical facilities are water utilities. These 15 facilities together endanger some 17 million people.

• Group Finds Terror Risks In Bay Area
  He places a bomb under one of the plant's chlorine gas tanks and sets the timer.

• Queensland Premier Anna Bligh signaled a back flip on recycled drinking water on Tuesday.

• Solar to provide 92 percent of the wastewater treatment plant's needs and 100 percent for the wastewater plant's pumping station.
  
  
  Photo by Elizabeth Larson

• Finally, urine recycler passes astronauts' test

• Space Station Water Recycler Not Right; Astronauts Face 7-Hour Spacewalk
  
  

• Wastewater farm irrigation could be costly

• State, federal agents search Columbia’s wastewater treatment plant
  Serving criminal warrants in joint investigation involving records keeping

• Wastewater farm irrigation could be costly

• The Many Uses of Wastewater
  
  

• MSD is preparing to submit its $843 million long-term control plan to the EPA and state environmental agency by Dec. 31

• Toray to Make Membranes in China
  With BlueStar, Nikkei Says

• NM Tech contracted to clean produced water

• 55 'free' pounds of nitrogen can add up to significant cost savings, about $55 per acre or more, for Ag producers.

• Algae farm proposal under financing review

• Intel Israel and Numonyx dedicate NIS 80m. waste treatment facility
  
  

• Surprise finishes $86.8 million sewage plant
  
  

• Akron sewage plant generates power

• Abington Nixes Wastewater Plan
  Board of supervisors has rejected a controversial proposal to accept industrial wastewater from natural gas drilling

• Stockton Wastewater Plant May Be Polluting Delta

• Squeamish opposition to a treated supply for Queensland
  Critics say there is a risk of viruses, bacteria and chemicals entering the drinking supply
  
  

• New fine, no new rules for wastewater spray
  DEQ board rejects petition for new rules on pathogen drift

• Chino Valley looks at expanding its wastewater
  treatment plant

• Niagara County, N.Y., currently working on the Pharmaceutical Waste Collection Program

• Mission includes installing system that will recycle urine for drinking
  

• Dumping in Red River investigated
  
  

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Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) Out of Compliance...

A very large percentage of wastewater treatment plants discharge their treated water into local streams and rivers. A large percentage of cities obtain their drinking water supply from these streams and rivers. We ran a quick search on 10/15/08 of WWTP (wastewater treatment plants) that were out of compliance in California alone

143 WWTP showed up on this EPA search.
Note that many of the WWTP's were out of compliance for 12 quarters in the last 3 years. Enter here to see that list...