Friday, March 25, 2022

Israel's Kando Uses Wastewater Data To Revolutionize Public Health

I have little doubt that going forward we will see more and much better wastewater monitoring! And this monitoring will go far beyond SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19!

"... After successful pilots in 14 cities across Israel, Kando teamed up with the Israeli Ministry of Health for a long-term, nationwide project in the midst of the Omicron wave. The company uses IoT, advanced algorithms, and artificial intelligence technologies to trace, detect, and monitor SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in sewage samples. ...
In the long-term plan, launched in January, regions that house more than 20,000 people will be monitored twice a week via the wastewater that are produced in these households. ...
Kando’s technology is already being used for wastewater pollution detection in Athens, Greece; Modena, Italy; Ventura, California. The city of El Paso, Texas was specifically looking to develop alternative water sources after prolonged droughts and depleted groundwater levels led the company to think about creating non-potable and indirect potable reuse programs.
The city became among the first in the US to utilize direct potable reuse (DPR), passing secondary effluent from a wastewater treatment plant through a water purification facility before redistributing it to consumers. But in order to deploy a successful program, the wastewater entering the plant must comply with strict quality standards. ..."
 
Israel's Kando Uses Wastewater Data To Revolutionize Public Health

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