Explore the rapid advancements in wastewater-based surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic with the Global Water Research Coalition’s newly-released International cookbook for wastewater practitioners – Vol. 1 SARS-CoV-2.

This comprehensive guide provides practical ‘recipes’ for implementing WBS, detailing innovations from global collaborations that improved sampling, analysis, and data interpretation. Designed for practitioners, the Cookbook offers valuable lessons from the pandemic and guidance for future surveillance efforts.

Water Research Australia will soon release a toolkit containing proven strategies to enhance public health monitoring and respond to emerging pathogens effectively. A wastewater surveillance toolkit for public health practitioners. With illustrative case studies from the Victorian wastewater surveillance program 2020-2024 will be released in late 2024.

Click here to download the GWRC cookbook.