RE: It's finally getting noticed.19 Mar 2021 10:58
"12:17 CET, 18 March 2021
Commission tells member states to set up systems to monitor COVID-19 in sewage
Sewage monitoring needs to be included in national testing programmes for tracking SARS-CoV-2, as part of an update of testing strategies to detect mutated variants of the virus that may be more transmissible and/or cause more serious disease.
EU funding will be made available to support deployment, the analysis samples for the presence of variants and for the exchange of data, to inform preparedness and response measures.
The monitoring systems, to be in place no later than October 2021, should include all towns and cities with populations greater than 150,000, with minimum sampling frequencies of twice a week. The initiative is part of a common path to safe and sustained ending of lockdown measures published by the Commission on Wednesday."
https://sciencebusiness.net/live-blog/live-blog-rd-response-covid-19-pandemic-october-2020?entry=9158#live-blog-entry-9158
All the best (ok so we not a member state, but we can help........ :()
and join in on this one.........