From the Swiss Blue Community Eawag – Aquatic Research Institute:
Can urban drainage system serve as a proxy for disease monitoring? Eawag and partners in Uganda explore a new approach to public health monitoring💡
Eawag’s EMoCH project, in partnership with Makerere University, the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), and Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), explores whether pathogen monitoring in drainage systems can reach populations currently invisible to conventional wastewater surveillance. Nearly half of the global population relies on non-sewered sanitation – yet these communities remain largely excluded from modern disease monitoring. Using Kampala as a case study, the project tests a scalable surveillance approach that could strengthen public health systems in urban areas worldwide.
