Elevated E. coli, staph still detected in Potomac river 4 weeks after sewage spill

• Nearly a month after a wastewater pipe broke and spewed hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River just north of Washington, D.C., the latest water test

Science · February 23, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 145 words

Beyond the beaches, Wellington's catastrophic sewage spill could be bad news for coastal ecosystems

• Public concern over the total failure of the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant on Wellington’s south coast has been growing, despite this week’s announcement of an independent

Science · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 61 words