Advancing environmental surveillance of sewage to inform local and global efforts for monitoring and supporting public health measures to combat disease.
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We are working to improve global public health through wastewater surveillance.
Important webpages
COVIDPoops
Summary of Global SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Monitoring Efforts by UC Merced Researchers
US NWSS
CDC’s NWSS works with health departments to track SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater so communities can act quickly to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
EU4S
EU Sewage Sentinel System for SARS-CoV-2 – Digital European Exchange Platform
WastewaterSCAN
Through wastewater monitoring, we track twelve infectious diseases across the country and share our findings here.
ESR Wastewater Surveillance
ESR tests wastewater for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) across the country.
COVID-19: Wastewater monitoring dashboard Canada
A dashboard that tracks the spread of COVID-19 in Canada using wastewater data.
THE NEW YORK STATE WASTEWATER SURVEILLANCE NETWORK
Wastewater surveillance is a tool to track the spread of COVID-19.
CDPH Wastewater Surveillance Network Dashboard
This dashboard provides an overview of wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in California.
SAMRC Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard
The SAMRC wastewater Surveillance and Research Programme monitors the non-infectious SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
The Biobot Network of Wastewater Treatment Plants
This chart shows the SARS-CoV-2 virus concentration present in samples of wastewater taken from across the United States.
Information
Website for the IWA Wastewater-based epidemiological Surveillance Cluster launched!!!
Website for the IWA Wastewater-based epidemiological Surveillance Cluster newly launched!!! We will share the related information in this website with you. home
Events
Recorded Webinar for Wastewater Surveillance in Non-Sewered Settings
Please check the first IWA Cluster Webinar for Wastewater Surveillance in Non-Sewered Settings: https://iwa-network.org/learn/wastewater-surveillance-in-non-sewered-settings/
IWA Webinar: Wastewater surveillance in non-sewered settings
IWA Webinar: Wastewater surveillance in non-sewered settings will be held at 15:00 (London time) on May 16, 2024. Please register it from the following link: Wastewater surveillance in non-sewered settings
14th IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation & Reuse
14th IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation & Reuse will be held on 16-20 March 2025 at Cape Town, South Africa. Please check details from the following link: https://iwareuse2025.com/
22nd Health Related Water Microbiology Conference at Amersfoort (NL), 15 – 20 June 2025
The 22nd Health Related Water Microbiology Conference will be held at Amersfoort, Netherlands in 15 – 20 June, 2025. You can find conference details from the following link: https://watermicro2025.nl/
Papers, Preprints, Reports
Characterizing influenza A virus lineages and clinically relevant mutations through high-coverage wastewater sequencing
Water Research, Volume 287, Part B, 1 December 2025, 124453. Anika John, Seju Kang, Lara Fuhrmann, Ivan Topolsky, Christopher Kent, Joshua Quick, Tanja Stadler, Timothy R. Julian, Niko Beerenwinkel https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135425013570
Tracking mitigation and expression patterns of the antibiotic resistome during full-scale livestock wastewater treatment: Comparison between summer and winter conditions
Water Research, Volume 287, Part B, 1 December 2025, 124515. Xinyu Zhu, Limin Lin, Feng Ju https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135425014198
Identifying potential bacterial pathogens in wastewater by expert reliability analysis of full-length 16S rRNA and untargeted RNA sequencing data processed with four bioinformatic workflows
Water Research, Volume 287, Part B, 1 December 2025, 124442. Pankaj Bhatt, Yabing Li, John W. Norton, Irene Xagoraraki https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135425013442
Sewage surveillance revealed the emergence and prevalence of human rhinovirus and human parainfluenza virus in China based on their fecal shedding rates
Water Research, Volume 287, Part B, 1 December 2025, 124512. Xin Du, Yao Deng, Hongxia Ming, Haifeng Li, Chunlong Zhu, Fenglan He, Songzhe Fu https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135425014162
Large-scale analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data from sewage using eVarEPS reveals that amino acid mutations detected in sewage provide an early warning on population prevalence
Water Research, Volume 287, Part B, 1 December 2025, 124437. Ziquan Lv, Chang Shu, Yulin Fu, Yinghui Li, Shisong Fang, Xiangjie Yao, Qinglan Sun, Kesheng Peng, Jian Lu, Guomei Fan, Dongmei Liu, Jinzhen Tang, Tingshan Zhong, Miaomei Chen, Lin Lin, Chen Du, Guixian Luo, Miaomiao Luo, Xiaolu Shi, Xin Wang, Weihua Wu, Juncai Ma, Songnian Hu, Xuan zou, Qinghua Hu, Linhuan Wu https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135425013429
Flow-driven biomarker movement in gravitational sewers for wastewater-based epidemiology and public health monitoring
Water Research, Volume 287, Part A, 1 December 2025, 124269. Harry Elliss, Jessica L. Kevill, Kit Proctor, Kata Farkas, Olivia Bailey, Joe Shuttleworth, Davey L. Jones, Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135425011753
Link to SNS
Linkedin
IWA Cluster Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Surveillance
facilitate the rapid exchange of crucial information on wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance
Link to the Cluster page at IWA Connect
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Core Specialist groups
| Specialist Group | Chair | Affilation |
| SG Health-related Water Microbiology (Cluster coordinator); | Rosina Girones | University of Barcelona |
| SG Instrumentation, control and automation | Janelcy Alferes Castano | WaterclimateHub, Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek
(Flemish Institute for Technological Research), VITO, Mol, Belgium |
| SG Modelling and Integrated Assessment | Ulf Jeppsson | Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden |
| SG Water reuse | Josef Lahnsteiner | VA TECH WABAG Group, Austria |
| SG Small water and wastewater systems | Inga Herrmann | Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering Under Water and Health, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden |
| SG Assessment and control of hazardous substances in water | Hu Jiangyong | Director for Research Cluster in Environmental Sustainability and Center for Water Research, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore |
| SG Non-sewered sanitation | Jayant Bhagwan | Water Research Commission, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Urban Drainage | Dave McCarthy | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia |
External Collaborators
| Institute | Website | Contact person |
| Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), RSA | https://www.csir.co.za/water-research-centre | Ms Maronel Steyn |
| Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Lab, The University of Hong Kong | https://smile.hku.hk/# | Prof. Tong Zhang |
| Instituto de Investigaciones para la Industria Química (INIQUI), Universidad Nacional de Salta – CONICET | https://salta-jujuy.conicet.gov.ar/iniqui/ | Prof. Veronica Rajal |
| International Wastewater-based Epidemiology Lab, The University of Tokyo | https://www.recwet.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/wbe/ | Prof. Masaaki Kitajima |
| The Cooperative Research Centre for Solving Antimicrobial Resistance in Agribusiness, Food, and Environments (CRC SAAFE), University of South Australia | https://www.crcsaafe.com.au/about-saafe/our-team/nicholas-ashbolt | Prof. Nicholas Ashbolt |
| Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering | https://scelse.sg/people/a-prof-janelle-thompson/ | Assist. Prof. Janelle R. Thompson |
| Technical University Vienna, Austria | https://www.tuwien.at/cee/iwr/wasser/team/julia-vierheilig | Assist. Prof. Julia Vierheilig |
| Karl-Landsteiner University for Health Sciences, Austria | https://www.kl.ac.at/en/university/scientific-organisational-units/division-water-quality-and-health | Prof. Andreas Farnleitner / Mats Leifels |
Contact
Daisuke Sano, Tohoku University, Japan
daisuke.sano.e1[at]tohoku.ac.jp