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SUSTAIN WHAT - Can Sewage Tests Ease Tracking of COVID-19? You’ve heard of the microbiome within us. Well there’s also a macrobiome connecting us, from sneezes to excrement. That’s why a new hunt is under way around the world for ways to use wastewater testing to track the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. Join Andy Revkin of Columbia University’s Earth Institute in conversation with Rolf Halden, director of the Center for Environmental Health Engineering at the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University; Jeff Schlegelmilch, deputy director of Columbia’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness and Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Past episodes: https://lnkd.in/eiUpiJc http://pscp.tv/revkin

A COVID-19 Solution - Tracking SARS CoV-2 in the Sewers?

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Carol DiBenedetto

Advancing Climate, Water, and Sustainable Nature-based Solutions through Strategic Philanthropy and Fund Development

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can we call it something less scary than "surveillance"?

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Carol DiBenedetto

Advancing Climate, Water, and Sustainable Nature-based Solutions through Strategic Philanthropy and Fund Development

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Gates, also Silicon Valley innovation and civic tech philanthropists

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Carol DiBenedetto

Advancing Climate, Water, and Sustainable Nature-based Solutions through Strategic Philanthropy and Fund Development

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Thank you for this enlightening conversation! The benefits seem clear, but would assume that people trust their public institutions to redirect resources (tests, emergency health workers, etc) fairly -- based on need vs, say wealth. How to ensure fair distribution, public transparency?, and who is doing this well now? I look forward to joining this conversation about pushing these solutions forward.

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Carol DiBenedetto

Advancing Climate, Water, and Sustainable Nature-based Solutions through Strategic Philanthropy and Fund Development

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Is State of CA looking at sewage? would think they would be interested. State of NY?

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Phillip A. Ritz

Environmental Compliance at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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If septic waste (from truck delivery)is added, that adds a different variable

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Phillip A. Ritz

Environmental Compliance at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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As wastewater arrives at the plant, it’s more real time data. It then sits in tanks for a long time and is mixed...

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Phillip A. Ritz

Environmental Compliance at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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Sewage sludge varies constantly, so there would have to be frequent (hourly) sampling, depending on where the same is taken

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Jack Alpert

Director: Stanford Knowledge Integration Lab.

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Thank you. I am Learning a lot.

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