#Harmful microbes found on sewer pipe walls
“#Harmful microbes found on sewer pipe walls” A combined sewer overflow outfall. Credit: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Can antibiotic-resistant bacteria escape from sewers into waterways and cause a disease outbreak? A new Rutgers study, published in the journal Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, examined the microbe-laden “biofilms” that cling to sewer walls, and even…