{"id":5184,"date":"2020-07-13T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technarrativelab.org\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:38:43","slug":"sewer-warning-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/2020\/07\/13\/sewer-warning-system\/","title":{"rendered":"sewer warning system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All cities have their own personality and attractions. One thing they all have in common is a sewer system. To paraphrase an old saying, “what goes up must go down – the drain.” Despite the recoil that most probably feel when talking about toilets, there is a wealth of data to be had in the wastewater from a city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Cities Today<\/a> piece talks about the potential for IoT sensors being able to monitor for Covid-19 and hence provide another surveillance tool for monitoring disease spread. In some ways this harkens back to one of the original contact tracing efforts – John Snow’s mapping of cholera cases in London<\/a> that clustered around a certain water pump head. In the proposed IoT solution, you’re not tracking the cases but rather the virus particles themselves – which can give you a different perspective. Combining this with other contact tracing may help cities get a handle on dealing with pandemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This approach has also shown promise for understanding emerging drug threats. This RAND work<\/a> discusses analysis of waste water for metabolites of drugs that typically are abused\/illegal (e.g. cocaine, opiates). Given the current pandemic and impending challenges around drug-resistant bacteria, this analysis could expand to look for where antibiotics are being over-used, or where other medications with dubious efficacy are being used for treatment, or even where counterfeit medications are prevalent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to know what’s going on in your city? The answer may be underground…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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