COVID-19
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As Testing Declines, Wastewater Increasingly Critical To COVID-19 Battle
3/31/2022
Wastewater analysis is in the national spotlight like never before, as individual states and researchers have found the data it can provide to be invaluable in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. And as individual testing for the disease declines, wastewater may come to play an even bigger role in how the nation learns to live with coronavirus.
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WWEMA Window: What Does Volatility Mean To You?
3/23/2022
Almost two years ago to the day, I contributed my first article after achieving the honor of joining the WWEMA Board of Directors. At that time, I could say I’d seen a lot in my 25-plus years in the workforce and was at a point in my career where I found myself thinking, but not saying out loud, “I’ve seen this before” with a bit more regularity.
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Agencies Collaborate To Launch Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard
3/23/2022
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Southern Nevada Health District, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) and Desert Research Institute (DRI) are partnering to detect early increases of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) and emerging variants in Southern Nevada through wastewater surveillance.
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Ambitious Federal Wastewater Sampling Plan Hits Privacy, Logistical Issues In Curbing COVID-19
3/22/2022
The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC) and individual states have relied increasingly on wastewater sampling data to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 throughout the country.
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Navigating Through Uncharted Waters, Part Two: How Peter Ng Is Giving Back To His Community
3/21/2022
In Part Two of Navigating Through Uncharted Waters, we caught up with Peter Ng, a Wastewater Technician who continues to help get wastewater samples for Covid research. At the beginning of the pandemic, Ng was tapped to be a Disaster Service Worker for the City and County of San Francisco helping to deliver food to the vulnerable population as well as be a translator to senior citizens. As Ng explains, this was something he was always meant to do.
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Navigating Through Uncharted Waters: How SFPUC's Wastewater Enterprise Stepped In To Help With COVID Monitoring
3/7/2022
On February 25, 2020, Mayor London N. Breed declared a local emergency. The legal document put into action the mobilization of City resources, accelerated emergency planning, and staffing to prepare in the event that COVID-19 appeared in the community. Ryan Batjiaka, a Resource Recovery Specialist for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) recalls what it was like the first few days after receiving the news.
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Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Is Not Transmitted Through Wastewater
2/16/2022
There is no proof that people can contract COVID-19 from wastewater, according to a report by Mark Sobsey, PhD, of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
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CDC Adds Wastewater Analysis Data To National COVID-19 Dashboard
2/15/2022
In one of the most significant signs of wastewater analysis’ rising prominence among the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation’s primary federal health agency has elevated this data to its public tracking site.
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Sewer Slime Can Hang On To SARS-CoV-2 RNA From Wastewater
2/9/2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, monitoring the levels of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater entering treatment plants has been one way that researchers have gauged the disease’s spread.
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Mysterious Coronavirus Data In NYC Demonstrates Power Of Wastewater Research
2/7/2022
Since early in the pandemic, wastewater has played a major role in helping researchers predict large outbreaks and new strains of COVID-19. But this research is also generating a major mystery that demonstrates the potential, as well as the challenges, of wastewater analysis.