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Abstract Submission Deadline - October 24

21st International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology - International Water Association (iwa-network.org)

2022 WWDR - Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2022: groundwater: making the invisible visible - UNESCO Digital Library

2022 World Health Statistics Report

World Health Statistics (who.int)

2022 FAO Report

W-SPHERE Public Use Health Case : Greater Accra Region of Ghana

New!! #W_SPHERE Public Use Health Case showcasing a stakeholder engagement approach to support environmental surveillance of SARS-COV-2 in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

GWPP Newsletter - Summary Of Excreted And Waterborne Viruses

QMRA IV 2022 applications are NOW OPEN

We are excited to announce that the Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Interdisciplinary Instructional Institute (QMRAIV) 2022 accepts applications NOW at https://events.anr.msu.edu/QMRAIV2022/.

Strengthening Public Health Surveillance Through Wastewater Testing : An Essential Investment for the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Health Threats (worldbank.org)

Since early 2020, an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has spread rapidly across the world. Latin America and the Caribbean remains an epicenter of the pandemic, with some of the world’s highest death rates. All countries in the region have been impacted, and more than 1.5 million people have died.

IWA Webinar –Traditional and molecular indicators to characterise sewage in wastewater-based epidemiology

2021 World Health Statistics

https://reliefweb.int/report/world/world-health-statistics-2021-monitoring-health-sdgs

2021 FAO Report

http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb4474en

W-SPHERE: Global Data Center For SARS-CoV-2 Environmental Response

Read more about W-SPHERE in the latest GWPP Newsletter out today!

Call for Abstracts!

The first annual Public Health and Water Conference & Wastewater Disease Surveillance Summit will reinvigorate connections between water and public health by bringing water resource professionals, public health practitioners, policymakers, and researchers together to share ideas on how to address some of the most pressing health issues of our time.

The deadline for all submissions is Tuesday, September 28th at 11:59 p.m. Eastern (UTC -4)!

JOB POSTING: Research Associate in Environmental Engineering and Microbial Ecology

Job Description:

GWPP Newsletter - Paragonimus spp.

UN World Water Development Report (WWDR 2021)

The 2021 edition of the UN World Water Development Report (WWDR 2021) titled ‘Valuing Water’ will be launched on World Water Day, 22 March 2021. The online event is organized by FAO and UNESCO WWAP, on behalf of UN-Water.

SARS-CoV-2 project with PATH

The GWPP is excited to be partnering with PATH, KWR Water, Venthic Technologies and University of California Merced on a new portfoilie of SARS-CoV-2 environmental surveillance projects. We will be working together to build an open data center of SARS-CoV-2 environmental surveillance efforts worldwide. This resource will be accessible on GWPP website in the coming months.

Read the full press release:

K2P Tools Workshop #3 - still time to register

There is still time to register K2P Tools Training Workshop #3! This will be the last September workshop on new tools to support sanitation decision planners. This virtual workshop will take place on Wednesday, September 30th. Please contact Melissa Downs at downsmel@msu.edu to register.

The workshop will begin at 4:30PM Eastern Africa Time (EAT). I have also included additional time zone information below for your reference.

Research Associate Fixed-Term (JOB POSTING)

Research Associate-Fixed Term

VIEW ONLINE JOB POSTING HERE

Position Summary

K2P Workshops

Sanitation Safety Planning Tools for WASH Professionals-
Training Workshops

Information Resources for COVID-19

The International Water Association Network has compiled a list of some of the leading and most respected sources to help support understanding and discussion at this crucial time.

Information resources for COVID-19

Kick off Meeting - NSF funded Research Coordination Network on SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance

September 2, 2020
12:00 - 2:00PM EDT
Link:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5678243492922327056


2020 FAO Report

WWDR 2020 - Water and Climate Change

World Health Statistics 2020

KEY MESSAGES

1. The world population is not only living longer but living healthier

K2P Team & World Water Week At Home 2020

The K2P team will be a part of a virtual session during World Water Week At Home 2020. During the session the team will introduce and demonstrate three tools that provide support for urban sanitation decision-making through an interactive marketplace session. Afterwards, a case study on Kampala, Uganda will be presented showing the complementary utility of the tools for climate-smart sanitation decisions. There will be ample opportunity for discussion and interaction.

SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater: Tracking COVID 19

Produced for the GWPP waterpathogens.org
Joan B. Rose, Melissa Downs and Nishita DSouza
Michigan State University
Taken in part from Kitajima et al. 2020

In Memorial to Dr. Huw Taylor

It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our dear colleague Huw Taylor who passed away after a battle with cancer. What a great friend he was. He cared about water and science. He loved working with others to make things better. He challenged us and made us think but at the same time made us laugh. He was known as someone who worked tirelessly and helped many around the world. He saved lives and was always concerned about the poor, sick and of course especially the children.

GWPP Quantitative Data: Meeting Sanitation Goals

GWPP Water-K2P: Translating knowledge to practice for safe sanitation

What is next for the GWPP?

The Global Water Pathogen Project (GWPP) is nearly complete! For the rest of 2018 our team will be working to publish the remaining chapters of the GWPP while also transitioning to the next phase of the project: Water-K2P. Our GWPP user community can expect photos and videos about the progress of the Water-K2P project and updates to the look and functions of the website.

What is Water-K2P?

WWDR 2017 – Wastewater: The Untapped Resource

Main Messages

Improved wastewater management generates social, environmental and economic benefits, and is essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development1.

GWPP at the IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition, Brisbane, Australia

Authors and editors from the GWPP network were in attendance at the IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition in Brisbane, Australia October 9th to 14th and participated in two workshops related to the GWPP mission.

Shaping Our Water Future World Water Congress & Exhibition 2016 October 9-14, 2016, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition is the global event for water professionals. It offers new insights into how pioneering science, technological innovation and leading practices shape the major transformation in water management that is underway. It draws over 5,500 of the top water, environment and related professionals from more than 100 countries from across the water sector, including thought leaders from within and beyond the water sector.

GWPP User Survey

The Global Water Pathogen Project will:

To restore and protect water safety

  • Focus on pathogens and pathogen risks from excreta (revision of Feachem et al. 1983)
  • Address sanitation technologies
  • Serve as a compendium of information and quantitative data to support risk assessment to protect water safety
Contribute your ideas for accessing the knowledge to meet global sanitation goals and needs for wastewater treatment to protect public health.

 

Achieving the Water & Sanitation SDG: Role of the Global Water Pathogen Project

GWPP Takes a “Safari” to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

“Safari” means journey in Swahili, one of the main languages in Tanzania. Although, the Global Water Pathogen Project (GWPP) team didn’t take a Safari to a national park, they took a journey to the capital of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, for the third in the series of user community workshops after 

6th Africa Water Week - ‘Wastewater-related diseases, risks and intervention measures in African Cities and the Global Water Pathogen Project’

Sub-Saharan Africa is among the world’s regions with the lowest level of sanitation coverage. According to the UN, 115 people in Africa die every hour from diseases linked to poor sanitation, poor hygiene and contaminated water, with open defecation being the primary cause of fecal oral transmission of disease. African Ministers responsible for sanitation and hygiene thus adopted the Ngor Declaration in 2015 to achieve universal access to adequate and sustainable sanitation and hygiene services.

Africa Water Week

The Africa Water Week (aww) is convened by the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) in conjunction with the African Union Commission and organized with other development partners. It represents a political commitment at the highest level with over 1000 participants from governments, regional institutions, international partners, the private sector, the scientific community, civil society, and the media from all over the world, and in particular Africa, meeting to discuss and collectively seek solutions to Africa’s water resources, and sanitation challenges.

User Community Meeting in Leeds, UK

The Sanitation Team, along with several members of the user community, met in Leeds, UK. The meeting was held at the University of Leeds, Civil Engineering Building where professor Miller Alonso Camargo-Valero, along with graduate students Esther Sample and Carolina Montoya-Pachongo, were the hosts for the event.

Africa Water Week (AWW)

With the new release of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), there is a global mandate to improve and transform the world by 2030.  Amongst these 17 major goals, SDG 6 aims to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.” With this goal, the organizers of the AWW have designed the program and approved presentations that would serve as an informative guide for Africa, as a continent, to achieve the goals specific to water and sanitation.

UNC User Community Meeting

On May 17, 2016, the Bacterial Pathogen Team of the Global Water Pathogen Project hosted a User Community Feedback workshop at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Water Microbiology Conference. The workshop was designed to “educate and advertise the GWPP” as a resource/tool for users (Academia, Industry, NGO, Public Health, Utilities, and Governmental Agencies) to use in their decision making processes.

GWPP on Twitter

GWPP just started a Twitter account! We are very excited to be able to share community and project news with the world.

Sanitation Technology Experts gather in Leeds to Address Water-related Diseases

UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme (IHP) and Michigan State University (MSU) brought together more than twenty sanitation technology experts on 21 March 2016 at the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, to address the risk factors constituted by water pathogens.

Read more here.

Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resources Systems

This is a dedicated programme of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) that promotes doctoral research and education at the highest standards and provides excellent opportunities for cross-disciplinary research. International networking is facilitated by a mobility programme with a spectrum of attractive international partner institutions and a comprehensive guest scientist programme.

Global Water Pathogen Network: Jennifer Miller, PhD

Jennifer Miller
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

(BACTERIAL PATHOGENS TEAM)

Protists Team Update

Reviewers have been obtained for 6 of the 8 chapters.  Reviewers are currently being sought for the Blastocystis and Balantidium chapters.

Development of World Health Organization Guidelines on Sanitation and Health and Linkages with the Global Water Pathogen Project

The Global Water Pathogen Project, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), held a workshop during the 18th International Water Association Health Related Water Microbiology Symposium in Lisbon, Portugal.  Topics presented during the workshop included “Policy and implementation processes affecting sanitation uptake,” “Overview on the development of WHO Guidelines and Sanitation and Health,” “Impact of sanitation on health, coverage, and use and faecal exposure,” “Sanitation and the Global Water Pathogen Project,” and finally “…research gaps,

Protists Team Meeting

The Protists team, along with an author and the editor of Helminths team, met in Paris France, June 28 -29, 2015 at UNESCO.  The overall goal of the meeting was to revisit the protists of fecal origin and create the outline for the GWPP chapters for this section.   The full Protists team can now be found using the Global Water Pathogen Network map.

New PhD's

Matthew Verbyla (Indicator and Microbial Source Tracking Markers Team, Sanitation and Disinfection Technologies Team) and Sihem Jebri (Indicators and Microbial Source Tracking Markers Team) both successfully defended their respective dissertations within the last month.
 

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