Treated effluent wastewater is increasingly reused for irrigation, landscape watering, and even aquifer recharge, supporting ...

The London Underground, the world’s oldest subway system, opened in 1863. Around the same time, London’s modern sewage system ...

The proposed price tag: $100 million in bonds, to improve existing facilities and build 25 miles of trunk-line sewers plus a modern sewage treatment plant. Like Apple Pie.

However, septic tank problems can and do occur even in the most up-to-date modern systems. Septic repair costs can add up quickly when things go wrong. However, ...

Only as modern sewage systems developed and germ theory took hold did attitudes finally shift. Indoor toilets, once feared as harbingers of disease, gradually became celebrated as symbols of ...

Lincolnville was founded by Black residents after the Civil War and sits between Summerville and North Charleston. Modern ...

But more than 50 years after its passage, older industrial cities such as Camden and Philadelphia struggle to reach that level of cleanliness because of outdated sewer systems. Unlike modern ...