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
Piloting wastewater-based surveillance of norovirus in England
Water Research, Volume 263, 1 October 2024, 122152. David I. Walker, Jessica Witt, Wayne Rostant, Robert Burton, Vicki Davison, Jackie Ditchburn, Nicholas Evens, Reg Godwin, Jane Heywood, James A. Lowther, Nancy Peters, Jonathan Porter, Paulette Posen, Tyler Wickens, Matthew J. Wade https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135424010510
Integrated hepatitis e virus monitoring in central Argentina: a six-year analysis of clinical surveillance and wastewater-based epidemiology
Water Research, Volume 261, 1 September 2024, 122004. Anabella Clara Fantilli, Gisela Masachessi, Guadalupe Di Cola, Gonzalo Castro, Paola Sicilia, María de los Angeles Marinzalda, Ariana Mariela Cachi, Claudia Moreno, Mariel Borda, Gustavo Ibarra, Ricardo Manuel Rojas, Viviana Gladys Parreño, María Gabriela Barbás, Silvia Viviana Nates, María Belén Pisano, Viviana Elizabeth Ré https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135424009047
Wastewater-based epidemiology methodology to investigate human exposure to bisphenol A, bisphenol F and bisphenol S.
Water Research, Volume 261, 1 September 2024, 122016. Andrea Estévez-Danta, Rosa Montes , Ailette Prieto, Miguel M. Santos, Gorka Orive, Unax Lertxundi, José Benito Quintana, Rosario Rodil https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135424009163
From capture to detection: A critical review of passive sampling techniques for pathogen surveillance in water and wastewater
Water Research, Volume 261, 1 September 2024, 122024. Emalie K. Hayes, Graham A. Gagnon https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135424009242
Wastewater tiling amplicon sequencing in sentinel sites reveals longitudinal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants prevalence
Water Research X. Volume 23, 1 May 2024, 100224 Yu Wang, Gaofeng Ni, Wei Tian, Haofei Wang, Jiaying Li, Phong Thai, Phil M. Choi, Greg Jackson, Shihu Hu, Bicheng Yang, Jianhua Guo https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589914724000148
SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance in the Czech Republic: Spatial and temporal differences in SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations and relationship to clinical data and wastewater parameters
Water Research X, Volume 23, 1 May 2024, 100220 Kateřina Sovová, Petra Vašíčková, Vojtěch Valášek, David Výravský, Věra Očenášková, Eva Juranová, Milena Bušová, Milan Tuček, Vladimír Bencko, Hana Zvěřinová Mlejnková https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589914724000100
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