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GUEST OPINION: Water has been on a digital transformation journey for some years now. Where it goes next will define how prepared the sector is for future climate extremes and shifting community expectations.

Researchers from Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO, and the University of Queensland have sighted genetic fragments of the COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, after testing aircraft and cruise ship wastewater once these means of transport reached their destinations.

Researchers at Western Australia's Edith Cowan University have discovered a way to modify an iron-based alloy in such a way as to produce a new crystalline alloy that is able to remove contaminants like heavy metals, dyes and other organic materials from wastewater.

A way of modifying the atomic structure of iron to create a metal that can remove impurities from water in a short time has been developed by scientists at the Edith Cowan University.

A new cost-effective technology to treat mining wastewater and reduce sludge by up to 90% has been used for the first time at a commercial mine.