Author name: Mia Wright

In the race to make aquaculture more sustainable, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) are emerging as a critical technology—but they’re hitting some hard limits. A new review by Ziang Kong of Tongji University’s State Key Laboratory for Water Pol

In the concrete jungles of the 21st century, where smog lingers like an unshakable guest and landfills groan under the weight of discarded organics, a quiet revolution is brewing. Funmi M. Alayaki, a civil engineer at Nigeria’s Federal University of

The humble clarifier, long seen as little more than a settling tank at the end of a wastewater treatment plant’s coagulation–flocculation stage, may soon get a second act—one with implications that ripple far beyond the treatment process and into the

The silent invasion of microplastics into our food system is no longer a distant concern—it’s happening now, and it’s reshaping the very ground beneath our crops. A groundbreaking study led by Muhammad Khizar Hayat, a researcher at the Department of

In a breakthrough that could reshape how wastewater treatment plants handle both sludge disposal and antibiotic contamination, researchers from Wuhan Institute of Technology have transformed an industrial byproduct into a high-performance catalyst fo

In the arid landscapes of Saudi Arabia, where water scarcity is a daily reality, a breakthrough in wastewater treatment is emerging from the laboratories of Al-Baha University. Lead researcher Ali Y. Alzahrani, a chemist at the university’s Faculty o

Heavy metal contamination in industrial wastewater isn’t just an environmental issue—it’s an economic one. For energy producers and heavy industries, the presence of lead, cadmium, and mercury in discharge streams isn’t just a regulatory headache; it

The Owabi River Catchment in Kumasi, Ghana, is at a crossroads. As urbanisation, deforestation, and pollution intensify, the delicate balance of water security hangs in the balance—a challenge that resonates far beyond its banks. A recent study led b