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Water Bear Resilience Corn Maze

Treinen Farm Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch (located in Lodi, Wisconsin) opened its 2020 Corn Maze on August 8th. This year’s theme is: Water Bear Resilience. Angie Treinen, the creator of the maze had been planning on creating the maze [Read More]

August 1, 2020

View the August 1, 2020 WCOWMA newsletter. [Read More]

Growing Wastewater Impact on Nutrient Imbalance in Lakes

A new study is warning that while wastewater treatment has become an increasingly common practice in developing countries to remove excess nutrients and make the water cleaner, the surge in treatment may be harming ecosystem biodiversity by creating an imbalance [Read More]

Welsh Research Identifies New System for Pharmaceutical Detection in Wastewater

A research team at Swansea University in Wales have developed a new method for fast removal and detection of wastewater pollutants that come from everyday pharmaceuticals like paracetamol, ibuprofen, and aspirin, which could help minimize their impact on the environment. [Read More]

UCalgary, The City of Calgary and AHS team up in the fight against COVID-19

UCalgary researchers from the Cumming School of Medicine, Faculty of Science, and Schulich School of Engineering; Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets (ACWA), The City of Calgary, and Alberta Health Services (AHS) have teamed up to test Calgary wastewater for early signs [Read More]