ReviewEnvironmental science : water research & technology2022
Wastewater research and surveillance: an ethical exploration.
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- Possibilities and Limitations for Conducting Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance in Refugee Camps Worldwide.American journal of public health · 2026Article
- Comparative Investigation and Trends of Respiratory Viruses Using Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Surveillance in Patras, Greece.Food and environmental virology · 2026Article
- Data Hidden in Sewage: Advanced Methods for Identification and Quantification of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Urban Wastewater.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- SARS-CoV-2 wastewater genomic surveillance: approaches, challenges, and opportunities.Genome biology · 2026Review
- Accessible ethics and legal advice for wastewater surveillance: The WWS ethics adviser app.PLOS water · 2026Article
- Ethical considerations of wastewater-based disease surveillance-a qualitative interview study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Advancing health equity in wastewater-based epidemiology: A global critical review and conceptual framework.SSM - population health · 2025Review
- Ethical Considerations for Wastewater Surveillance Conducted by the US Department of Defense.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Near-source wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2, norovirus, influenza virus and RSV across five different sites in the UK.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Toward a unified approach: Considerations for bioinformatic and sequencing activities & data in wastewater surveillance of biologic public health threats.Open research Europe · 2025Article
- Agile, on-demand wastewater surveillance of virus infections to support pandemic and outbreak response in Rotterdam-Rijnmond, the Netherlands, 2020 to 2022.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024Article
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- The National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS): From inception to widespread coverage, 2020-2022, United States.The Science of the total environment · 2024Article
- Structured Ethical Review for Wastewater-Based Testing in Support of Public Health.Environmental science & technology · 2023Article
- Structured Ethical Review for Wastewater-Based Testing.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
The current COVID-19 pandemic has given wastewater research a huge impetus. While wastewater research has some promising applications, there are as yet no well-developed ethical guidelines on how and under what conditions to use wastewater research. The current perspective paper aims to explore the different ethical questions pertaining to wastewater research and surveillance and to provide some tentative guidelines on the desirability of different types of applications. This paper shows that wastewater research offers interesting possibilities, but that legal regulation and ethical guidelines are still lacking, while there are ethical risks involved. The perspective indicates that it is important to look beyond the regulation of data collection and to shift the focus to the question how the analysis and use of wastewater data can be supervised.
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