• 20 mei – Environmental Science & technology: In the current COVID-19 pandemic, a significant proportion of cases shed SARS-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) with their faeces. To determine if SARS-CoV-2 RNA was present in sewage during the emergence of COVID-19 in the Netherlands, sewage samples of six cities and the airport were tested using four qRT-PCR assays, three targeting the nucleocapsid gene (N1-3) and one the envelope gene (E). Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 RNA in sewage and correlation with reported COVID-19 prevalence in the early stage of the epidemic in the Netherlands.
• 3 april – Nature: Wastewater testing could also be used as an early-warning sign if the virus returns. How sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
• 30 maart – MedRXiv preprint: Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage (Gertjan Medema, Leo Heijnen, Goffe Elsinga, Ronald Italiaander, Anke Brouwer)

Het rioolwater als ‘early warning system’

• 7 juli – Delta – Journalistic platform TU Delft: How the Netherlands is preparing for a second corona wave 
• 6 juli – AP News: Waste-watching: Sewage can help track pandemic virus trends
• 3 juli – Volkskrant: Rioolwater als coronadetector: ‘Het geeft een vroege waarschuwing’
• 1 juli – NRC: In het riool was de corona-epidemie al zichtbaar
• 19 juni Trouw: Het coronavirus wordt talrijker in rioolwater van Amersfoort en Amsterdam
• 18 juni – Kennislink: Aantal coronabesmettingen in Amsterdam loopt op, meldt het riool
• 10 juni – NY Times: How data became one of the most powerful tools to fight an epidemic
• 7 juni – The Water Scientist: How is the recent corona research preparing us for current and future pandemics – Studio KWR Podcast (2020)EP01
• 29 mei – website NOS: Corona-uitbraak snel te zien in rioolwater, ‘goede spiegel van de samenleving’.
• 28 mei – Kennislink: Rioolwater als waarschuwingssysteem voor coronabesmettingen, veelbelovende detectiemethode, maar nog niet in gebruik
• 22 mei – Financial Times: “The UK is preparing to launch a national research programme to detect coronavirus in sewage in a bid to create an early warning system for future waves of Covid-19. The new government initiative is part of an international surge of scientific interest in using wastewater tests as an additional tool to track coronavirus. The UK system is being put together by the government in consultation with universities, water companies and public research bodies, according to three people involved in the discussions“. UK plans to track spread of coronavirus in sewage.
• 1 mei – New York Times: Is It Safe to Come Out of Lockdown? Check the Sewer
• 26 april – Good news: (Griekenland) Ένας τρόπος ανίχνευσης του κορονοϊού καλύτερος κι’ από τα τεστ (One way to detect the corona is better than testing)
• 20 april – The World: “Sewage surveillance” may be early warning tool in fight against COVID-19, says one study
• 15 april – Financieel Dagblad: “Het coronavirus is aangetroffen in het riool. Daardoor is op grote schaal testen ook mogelijk om de verspreiding van het virus beter in kaart te brengen. Wateronderzoeksinstituut KWR kan met de metingen vaststellen hoeveel besmettingen er in een gebied zijn”. ‘Het riool geeft eerder een signaal dan dat coronapatiënten zich melden’
• 15 april: GWF Wasser: Ist die Coronaausbreitung anhand von Abwasserproben nachvollziehbar?
• 29 april – Los Angeles Times: Poop may tell us when the coronavirus lockdown will end
• 9 april – Bloomberg Quick Take: Can Sewage be a Virus Early Warning System? (video)
• 9 april – Water & Wastes Digest: “The detection of the virus in sewage, even when the COVID-19 prevalence is low, indicates that sewage surveillance could be a sensitive tool to monitor the circulation of the virus in the population.” Dutch scientists find coronavirus in city’s wastewater
• 7 april: Spiegel Wissenschaft:  Coronavirus im Abwasser Das Klärwerk als Messwerkzeug
• 7 april – Technisch weekblad: Coronavirus aangetroffen in rioolwater. Mogelijk methode om nieuwe uitbraken te voorspellen
• 6 april – Medium OneZero: The Key to Tracking Coronavirus Could Be Your Poo: Sewage surveillance could help scientists predict new outbreaks
• 6 april – Rioolgids – Nog voor artsen het doorhebben, vertelt ons rioolwater waar het coronavirus toeslaat
• 2 april – Daily Mail: The Dutch scientists say the discovery of the virus in sewage means it could be used to provide an early warning system for the possible re-emergence of COVID-19 in a city that has re-opened after lockdown. Coronavirus pathogens in SEWAGE and wastewater could help track the spread of the disease and act as an early warning system for future outbreaks
• 1 april – Nature World News: “It is important to collect information about the occurrence and fate of this new virus in sewage to understand if there is no risk to sewage workers, but also to determine if sewage surveillance could be used to monitor the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 in our communities.” Sewage Surveillance as Early Warning Signal for Novel Coronavirus Discovered
• 1 april – TaiPei Times – Virus Outbreak: Virus in sewage foretold outbreak in Dutch city
• 31 maart – Deutsche Welle (DW): Scientists say they found the virus, that causes COVID-19, in a Dutch city’s wastewater before the first confirmed case in the city. They hope that sewage surveillance may be an early indicator of COVID-19’s presence. “In a city with 100.000 citizens, not everybody is tested,” researchers told DW. “Sewage water is a quicker route to ‘see’ the virus in the population.” Coronavirus in sewage foreshadowed outbreak in Dutch city

COVID-19 in rioolwater

• 30 mei – NRC Handelsblad: De coronapandemie laat zijn sporen na in het riool (subscription nodig)
• 4 mei – Carte Blanche: COVID-19 in Wastewater – Early Warning of Infection? (video met Frederic Béen)
• 2 mei – H2O-Online: “Rioolwater kan ons veel vertellen over de pandemie”
• 29 april – Hackathon EUvsVirus: Hackathon team Sewers4Covid (video)
• 20 april – The World: “We think that the effectivity of the virus may not be that high and that the virus is not very robust — so that in the sewer system, which is a hostile environment for this virus, that it will rapidly be inactivated if it’s infectious, still, after being shed.” ‘Sewage surveillance’ may be early warning tool in fight against COVID-19, says one study (inclusief audio)
• 19 april – HealthWire: Can Human Poop Help Track The Spread Of COVID-19?
• 19 april – PompNL: Zit Corona in ons afval/drinkwater?
• 17 april – AquaTech: Coronavirus and water/wastewater: a round-up of global advice (inclusief audio)
• 16 april – Heidi News: Comment des scientifiques traquent Covid-19 dans les égouts, en Suisse et ailleurs
• 15 april – Mongabay India: Tracking sewage to surveil COVID-19
• 15 april – Gwf-wasser: (Duits) Ist die Coronaausbreitung anhand von Abwasserproben nachvollziehbar?
• 13 april – Alarabija: Riool en afvalwater onthullen veel van Corona’s geheimen –  uit het Abrabisch المجاري ومياه الصرف الصحي تكشف الكثير من أسرار كورونا-
• 12 april – The Times: Scientists who analysed waste water in Dutch cities believe levels of the virus found in sewage can enable epidemiologists to detect how many people have been infected. Scientists in Holland fight dirty to track coronavirus through sewage (subscription nodig)
• 12 april – H2O Actueel: Ook drinkwater dat bereid is uit oppervlaktewater is veilig. “Drinkwaterbedrijven die drinkwater uit oppervlaktewater bereiden, hebben allemaal meervoudige desinfectiebarrières gericht op het verwijderen van bacteriën, virussen en protozoën, die ook geborgd zijn door de Analyse Microbiologische Veiligheid Drinkwater.” Rondrazend virus gedijt niet in water, KWR werkt aan rioolwaterscreening
• 10 april – Aquarama: Waarom er geen covid-19 in ons drinkwater zit
• 9 april – ÄrzteZeitung: Coronavirus taucht im Abwasser auf
• 9 april – Bloomberg: Scientists are desperate for a way to detect the novel coronavirus in communities as early as possible. So far, those efforts have focused on widespread testing of people. But a group of Dutch researchers may have discovered a way to tell where the virus is spreading, right beneath their feet. Hunting For the Virus in Sewage (audio / podcast)
• 8 april – Vice: Looking for the new coronavirus in wastewater could give us a heads up about where the outbreak is spreading—and when it has started to dissipate. Your Poop Might Be Key For Predicting the End of the Pandemic
• 7 april – The Sacramento Bee: Scientists are studying sewer water — to find out how many people have coronavirus
• 7 april – StatNews: New research examines wastewater to detect community spread of Covid-19
• 2 april – De Volkskrant: Nog voor artsen het doorhebben, vertelt ons rioolwater waar het coronavirus toeslaat
• 2 april – Futurezone (in Duits): Corona-Früherkennung: Virus soll in Abwasser nachgewiesen werden
• 1 april – Taipei Times: Virus Outbreak: Virus in sewage foretold outbreak in Dutch city
• 1 april – Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in Duits): Corona-Viren im Abwasser gefunden: Warum das für Wissenschaftler ein Glücksfall ist (subscription nodig)
• 1 april – Watershare: Rosina Girones, Research Group Leader at the University of Barcelona en Prof. Gertjan Medema, Principle Microbiologist at KWR, delen hun inzichten in het virus. Summary of the Watershare Webinar on COVID-19 in the water sector (bekijk het webinar van 30 maart)
• 31 maart – Welt Wissenschaft (in Duits): Forscher finden Coronaviren im Abwasser – und wittern eine Chance
• 31 maart – Bloomberg World: Dutch Scientists Find a Novel Coronavirus Early-Warning Signal (inclusief audio)
• 31 maart – The Week: Dutch scientists find coronavirus in wastewater; increases scope of sewage surveillance
• 30 maart – The Week (India): Dutch scientists find coronavirus in wastewater; increases scope of sewage surveillance
• 28 maart – Nu.nl:  Wat we leren over het Corona virus door rioolwateronderzoek  (animatie)
• 17 maart – Aquatechtrade: Coronavirus and water/wastewater: a round-up of global advice

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