DNA testing to better target waterborne pathogens 18 Nov In a boon for water quality management and public health, experts from the Australian Water Quality Centre (AWQC) are applying advanced next … Read more
Wastewater sampling in Gippsland the next front in the war on COVID-19 29 Sep As the world continues the fight against COVID-19, water utilities around Australia are joining forces in a national project using wastewater … Read more
World's limited hand-washing facilities highlight COVID-19 risk 9 Sep Recent data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme reveals 43% of schools around the world lacked access to basic hand-washing … Read more
WA Indigenous communities promised water service upgrades in COVID-19 recovery plan 5 Aug The Western Australian (WA) government has announced $38.9 million in funding to improve water service delivery in the state’s Aboriginal … Read more
COVID-19 sewage tracing leads to pre-emptive community testing in NSW 30 Jul Tracing COVID-19 through sewage is beginning to have a real-world impact, with pre-emptive community testing underway after traces of the virus … Read more
'We are alarmingly off track': new UN SDG6 framework targets water and sanitation progress 27 Jul There is an urgent need to speed up progress towards meeting the requirements for Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) if they are to be met … Read more