Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health and Environmental Management

Through this side event, the organizers aim to raise awareness around the benefits of wastewater-based monitoring and surveillance and enhance cooperation among relevant stakeholders. The event also aims to foster collaboration between water service providers and health institutions and encourage surveillance on communicable and non-communicable diseases using wastewater. Finally, the event aims to bring together experts and policymakers to highlight best practices on the use of wastewater-based monitoring and surveillance to detect waves of COVID-19 and beyond.

The side event will leverage on the existing global partnerships established on wastewater-based monitoring surveillance in the past years across the world, linking sewage surveillance experts to governments and policymakers. The side event aims at bringing together relevant stakeholders and representatives from different sectors such as the wastewater sector, centers of communicable diseases, global and regional health initiatives, policymakers, the private sector, research organizations, water associations, globally active water operators and major actors to discuss the way forward towards establishing a worldwide system of wastewater-based monitoring and surveillance.

The event will be organized in person at World Water Week in Room A3, on Thursday 24 August 2023, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Stockholm time. Furthermore, there is a possibility to follow it online. 

Register for the event at: worldwaterweek.org/tickets and look for Session ID 10944.

More on UNEP’s participation at World Water Week.