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Careful thenotorious with posting a positive view.
Mugginstheguarddog is on patrol!
Agree
And also from recent rns-
DeepVerge notes press commentary today that wastewater treatment sites in England, Wales and Scotland will start testing more sewage for coronavirus, with the aim of creating an early warning system to detect local outbreaks before they spread.
DeepVerge has been working with multiple universities and wastewater utilities since June this year on COVID-19 related projects. The Company is involved in many projects in the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Michigan, US, Shanghai, China and Japan.
Modern Water is the finalist of the Sustainability Award, which seeks to recognize organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to the building of a sustainable business in China and to help promote the benefits of a sustainable business model in the Chinese market. This award is sponsored by Houghton Street Consulting.
Mr Brandon posted on Twitter-
Amazing achievement finalists in Sustainability and Innovation in the Chinese Market, beaten by AstraZeneca and Unilever, but we are certainly standing with giants in a giant market like China. #MWG #ModernWater team in Shanghai, China #DVRG
Ontheverge of more contracts?
Fascinating that monitoring wastewater can potentially detect an outbreak A full week before tradional testing.
Roll on deepverge/ modern water/ rino cloud delivering real time monitoring.
Absolutely fantastic work all are doing
the engineering, science and ingenuity here should be applauded and supported.
One mans waste another mans treasure.
Fecal Matters: Using Sludge, Sewage and Wastewater to Help Fight COVID Outbreaks
The fairly gross yet very valuable information that can be found in waste water and sewer sludge can detect an outbreak a full week before traditional testing
One person's trash (or more accurately, what they flush down the toilet) could be more than another person's treasure — it could aid in the fight against COVID-19.
A group of scientists at Yale University are using wastewater from sewage plants and sewers to predict were new coronavirus outbreaks might pop-up, giving communities a chance to stop them before they start.
"Sludge was my idea. I had worked for the last 10-15 years in sewage," said Professor Jordan Peccia, who is part of the university's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The team of scientists are knee-deep in "research" to analyze the sewer sludge, and look for concentrations of the coronavirus.
"Anything you put down the drain in your home. Anything that gets flushed down the toilet, that can be information," Peccia said.
That fairly gross yet very valuable information can detect an outbreak a full week before traditional testing.
"The major challenge with coronavirus is a large number of infections that occur in a community go undetected," said Dr. Albert Ko, of the Yale School of Public Health.
So how exactly do researchers find coronavirus in sludge?
"When waste water goes into a treatment plant, the first sort of process is the solid material is settled out. We sample that solid material," said Peccia. "They get that sample to us, it's brought to us by a courier, usually the same day it's sampled ... we extract the nucleic acid in that so we can amplify it out and detect the virus."
Peccia said they conduct the exact same test as what's used for the nasal swabs, with one obvious and foul difference: "Up front we are not cleaning up a nasal sample. We are cleaning up some pretty nasty, dirty, smelly sludge."
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/fecal-matters-using-sludge-sewage-and-wastewater-to-help-fight-covid-outbreaks/2674276/?amp
One mans waste another mans treasure.
Fecal Matters: Using Sludge, Sewage and Wastewater to Help Fight COVID Outbreaks
The fairly gross yet very valuable information that can be found in waste water and sewer sludge can detect an outbreak a full week before traditional testing
One person's trash (or more accurately, what they flush down the toilet) could be more than another person's treasure — it could aid in the fight against COVID-19.
A group of scientists at Yale University are using wastewater from sewage plants and sewers to predict were new coronavirus outbreaks might pop-up, giving communities a chance to stop them before they start.
"Sludge was my idea. I had worked for the last 10-15 years in sewage," said Professor Jordan Peccia, who is part of the university's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The team of scientists are knee-deep in "research" to analyze the sewer sludge, and look for concentrations of the coronavirus.
"Anything you put down the drain in your home. Anything that gets flushed down the toilet, that can be information," Peccia said.
That fairly gross yet very valuable information can detect an outbreak a full week before traditional testing.
"The major challenge with coronavirus is a large number of infections that occur in a community go undetected," said Dr. Albert Ko, of the Yale School of Public Health.
So how exactly do researchers find coronavirus in sludge?
"When waste water goes into a treatment plant, the first sort of process is the solid material is settled out. We sample that solid material," said Peccia. "They get that sample to us, it's brought to us by a courier, usually the same day it's sampled ... we extract the nucleic acid in that so we can amplify it out and detect the virus."
Peccia said they conduct the exact same test as what's used for the nasal swabs, with one obvious and foul difference: "Up front we are not cleaning up a nasal sample. We are cleaning up some pretty nasty, dirty, smelly sludge."
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/fecal-matters-using-sludge-sewage-and-wastewater-to-help-fight-covid-outbreaks/2674276/?amp
Could be released anytime next week not necessarily Monday
From rns
‘expects that the Offer Document will be published during the week commencing Monday 12 October 2020’.
Understandably with covid and all regulations-
From mr Brandon twitter-
Offer Document is being processed, as per the RNS on the delay and with 2 companies, 2 managements, 2 Boards, 2 NOMADS, 2 law firms, reporting accountants, FCA, Takeover Panel and AIM Panel, herding cats is easier
@E_AL apology And correct- easy to forget the facts amongst all the noise.
‘it's not as though the whole business hinges on the success of the Microtox BT, it is just a juicy bonus that might pay off big time.‘
Agree
the share price in all likelihood would be higher than today had we not had that breathalyser rns/presentation Lol
still see it as a great bit of kit though with far reaching potential. Gla
Belgium begins using wastewater to predict future coronavirus flare-ups
Belgium launched a new coronavirus surveillance tool on 15 September to monitor Covid-19’s circulation through the analysis of samples taken from wastewater, the Sciensano public health institute said Monday in a statement.
Sewage monitoring makes it possible to map the circulation of the virus in the population, often several days ahead of the data from individual screening of human samples, Sciensano explained.
However, there is no question of replacing individual clinical testing with wastewater monitoring. “This is a warning system that supports a proactive health policy,” the institute stressed. Its role would be to detect possible future phases of a resurgence of the epidemic.
“Infectious disease surveillance via wastewater monitoring is not new and has already demonstrated its role as an early warning system, especially for polio virus in the Netherlands,” Sciensano added.
Research and surveillance projects on wastewater had been initiated in the early months of the epidemic, notably by the Société publique de gestion de l’eau (SPGE) and E-biom, a spin-off of the University of Namur.
The Universities of Antwerp, Leuven and Ghent, the Flemish Environment Agency and Aquafin, in collaboration with the Flemish Agency for Care and Health (Agentschap Zorg en Gezondheid), in Flanders have also conducted such projects.
With Belgium’s new monitoring system, which covers more than 40% of the Belgian population, a total of 42 wastewater samples are analysed twice a week, over a total period of two years, Sciensano said.
The choice of collection sites for the analysis of wastewater samples covers areas of higher population density, which present a higher risk of coronavirus transmission.
Three laboratories carry out these analyses using a common methodology. These are the Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) and the Toxicology Centre of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences of the UAntwerpen, E-biom, and the Food Pathogen Service of Sciensano.
The first results of the national surveillance of coronavirus in wastewater will be further analysed in the coming weeks, Sciensano concluded.
The Brussels Times
Agree...can easily see this knocking back on years high door.
Also agree presentation was fine,
just watch some of the proactive interviews to get a idea of how the ceo comes across, all good imo.
Does look like price is being manipulated.
Company continues to grow with more recent contracts to underpin the growing revenues.
And hopefully lots more to come. Gl
Been adding down here!
from recent highs this is absolute crazy fall considering no bad news infact quite the contrary contract wins
management and real-time monitoring of water quality, initially in the Great Lakes basin region of Michigan USA.
Also with labskin gaining Contracts with four global cosmetics companies.
If sellers are selling I’m buying.
https://mg.co.za/coronavirus-essentials/2020-10-04-testing-sewage-the-covid-canary-in-our-wastewater/?amp
Testing sewage is an alternative to testing patients directly. It isn’t dependent on whether someone tests for Covid-19, so the results aren’t influenced by stigma or the accessibility of tests. Mutshembele says that “the tool doesn’t need an invasion” and can be done anonymously at a large scale. It also picks up asymptomatic cases and isn’t reliant on whether someone feels particularly sick.
“The sewage will give you a snapshot of what’s going on in a community,” says Van der Walt. Essentially, everyone defecates, so everyone is included in this testing method
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-virus-cases-stockholm-wastewater.amp
Researchers see increasing virus cases via Stockholm wastewater
The sewage water testing could help provide important insights into the spread and prevalence of the disease without the need for expensive widespread individual tests.
"This type of water analysis could definitely save resources for society, they give valuable information that can be combined with other parameters," Cetecioglu Gurol said.
https://qz.com/1910540/wastewater-testing-for-covid-19-is-straining-supply-chains/amp/
So many communities are testing poop for Covid-19, equipment is running out.
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues on in the US, state and municipal groups are scrambling to find ways to track of new cases and potential outbreaks. One such method: scanning sewage for bits of the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself....
.... Why the big fuss over sewage monitoring? Wastewater-based epidemiology has the potential to be a cost-effective complement to clinical testing. Because individuals often shed bits of the virus in their fecal matter before they come down with Covid-19, it can be a way of tracking where outbreaks are about to happen. In a small enough community—like a university campus—public health officials have been able to see spikes in SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, test dorm residents, and isolate the few people who tested positive even when they weren’t showing symptoms. Boom—outbreak averted.