Sheep graze among poplars at the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission’s Biocycle Farm, which irrigates about 400 acres of trees with treated wastewater from Eugene and Springfield, Ore.

Rising rural populations, drought and climate change are making water scarcity a problem in country townships—with more efficient handling of sewage system wastewater part of the solution. Subscribe ...

Despite persistent concerns about drought in the southwestern United States, the seven states that pull water from the Colorado River only recycle a small percentage of wastewater, squandering an ...

Orange County in Southern California is doing something unusual to help with the scarcity of fresh water there. They're putting clean recycled water into the ground. See; rivers run low in the summer, ...

A new study gives Arizona and Nevada high marks for their reuse of treated sewage effluent as a way to reduce Colorado River use, but says the other five river basin states have a long way to go.

SALEM — Oregon lawmakers may mobilize a team of state agencies to fix the bureaucratic pitfalls that often prevent treated wastewater from being reused for irrigation. House Bill 2169 would direct ...

The EPA recently announced over $351 million in funding for the city of Fort Worth, TX. The funds include an approved loan of ...

SALEM — Irrigating crops with treated wastewater is widely considered a promising but underused way to help relieve drought impacts in Oregon and across the West. Given that consensus, it would seem ...