Methane emissions WWTP's double • Water News Europe
Published on by Esther Rasenberg, Water News Europe
Municipal waste water treatment plants (WWTP’s) emit almost twice the amount of methane than scientists previously believed, according to new research from Princeton University. That is the assessment of two papers published in February in Environmental Science & Technology.
One study performed on-the-ground methane emissions measurements at 63 wastewater treatment plants in the United States; the other used machine learning methods to analyze published literature data from methane monitoring studies of various wastewater collection and treatment processes around the globe.