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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 …
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New study finds that even the cleanest wastewater contains ‘super bacteria’
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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