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By LESLIE MACMILLAN Rudy Preston Yellowish traces (look closely) at Arizona Snowbowl, where snow made from wastewater was deployed for the first time over the holidays. After a decade of legal battles, a ski resort in Northern Arizona recently became the first in the world to make artificial snow totally …

CYNDY COLE and JOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Reporters New tests have confirmed in Flagstaff what researchers in Minnesota first observed: that even highly treated wastewater might contain trace elements of gene material from dead bacteria resistant to some widely used antibiotics. One scientist said this week he would be more …

JOEL N. SHURKIN, ISNS Contributor Inside Science News Service | Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2011 Even a very good wastewater treatment plant can’t clean up fragments of superbugs — bacteria that have developed a resistance to antibiotics — and until now, almost no one has noticed. The implications are unclear …

University of Minnesota research suggests that wastewater treated with standard technologies contains far greater quantities Contacts: Rhonda Zurn, College of Science and Engineering, rzurn@umn.edu, (612) 626-7959 Preston Smith, University News Service, smith@umn.edu, (612) 625-0552 MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (11/14/2011) —A new University of Minnesota study reveals that the release of …