United Nations Environment Programme
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Online event
Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health and Environmental Management
24 August 2023
World Water Week - Waterfront Congress Centre, Room A3 and Online - Stockholm, Sweden
- Overview
- Convenors and Programme
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 was organized in person at World Water Week in Room A3, and online, on Thursday 24 August 2023, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Stockholm time.
Watch the recording of the event here.
Convenors
- United Nations Environment Programme - Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities
- The Global Wastewater Initiative
- European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)
- Turkish Water Institute (SUEN)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Columbia University
- Cranfield University
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Programme
Welcome:
Heidi Savelli-Soderberg, Chief a.i., Source to Sea Pollution Free Unit, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Setting the scene:
Kartik Chandran, Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
Case study:
Bilge Alpaslan Kocamemi, Professor, Turkish Water Institute (SUEN)
Zeynep Cetecioglu, Associate Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Panel discussion
Moderator: Alex Pires, Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- Kartik Chandran, Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
- Kate Medlicott, Sanitation and Waste Team Leader, World Health Organization [Online]
- Bilge Alpaslan Kocamemi, Professor, Turkish Water Institute (SUEN) - Department of Environmental Engineering, Marmara University
- Angela Tessarolo, Policy Officer, DG HERA, European Commission
- Francis Hassard, Senior Lecturer in Public Health Microbiology, Cranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University
- Zeynep Cetecioglu, Associate Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Follow-up questions and questions from the audience
Alex Pires, Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Final statements, closing reflection and next steps
Heidi Savelli-Soderberg, Chief a.i., Source to Sea Pollution Free Unit, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
