As we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, many national and local governments are turning to a surprising source of data to track the latest surge of the virus: pathogens in the wastewater in their sewage systems.
COVID-19 dictated the format of this year’s University of North Carolina (UNC) Water and Health Conference, which was held from October 26–30, 2020, in a virtual format and free of charge for the first time ever.
This issue contains recent studies, reports, and blog posts that discuss COVID-19 and wastewater, wastewater surveillance, medical waste, and solid and household waste.
The IWED Ghana program worked with Ghana’s Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR) to: develop and implement standard WASH data collection, management and reporting from the local to national level; build the capacity of WASH sector stak