Wastewater

How wastewater monitoring can boost preparedness for new health threats

Video and audio recordings

Objective: to explore wastewater analysis as a methodology contributing to EU preparedness and response Background: COVID-19 has raised the attention of Europe, and globally, on the importance of readiness towards potential emergencies...

EMCDDA webinar: How wastewater monitoring can boost preparedness for new health threats

16 November 2022

Online

Objective: to explore wastewater analysis as a methodology contributing to EU preparedness and response

Background: COVID-19 has raised the attention of Europe, and globally, on the importance of readiness towards potential emergencies. Improved and innovative monitoring methodologies are at the core of the research-based actions taken to respond to potential threats.

Wastewater analysis and drugs — a European multi-city study 2022

News

The analysis of municipal wastewaters for drugs and their metabolic products to estimate community consumption is a developing field, involving scientists working in different research areas, including analytical chemistry, physiology...

Wastewater Analysis and Drugs - A European Multi-City Study

Book

12 March 2020

EMCDDA has published the latest results of European multi-city wastewater analysis and drugs study.

EU Drug Use Revealed through Wastewater Analysis

News

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has released the results of their largest wastewater analysis study. The EU project analysed the wastewater around 60 European cities and towns. This has allowed...