IMAGINE: INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR RAPIDLY SURVEYING, MAPPING AND COMMUNICATING WATERBORNE HAZARDS

想象一下：快速测量、绘图和传达水源危害的创新技术

• 批准号: EP/P028527/1
• 负责人: David Werner
• 金额: $ 60.8万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP028527%2F1
• 关键词: IMAGINE; INNOVATIVE; TECHNOLOGIES; RAPIDLY; SURVEYING

The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 seeks to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all. While global access to improved drinking water sources has been expanding over the past decades, it is still lacking in many places, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, not all improved drinking water sources are safe. Water quality monitoring at the point of use is quintessential for the provision of safe water.This project will develop innovative technologies for rapidly surveying, mapping and communicating waterborne hazards. Newcastle University in the UK will team up with Ardhi University in Tanzania, for the method development with subsequent field testing in Dar es Salaam, with the aim of establishing all methods and skills in the partner country Tanzania by the end of the project. The project will develop portable gene sequencing equipment as a versatile technology to comprehensively assess microbial water quality within a matter of hours. It will embed this molecular microbiological method with other field deployable methods for assessing water quality, including inexpensive screening methods, to derive cost effective and reliable surveying strategies.The water quality assessment methods will be integrated with digital technologies for data storage in a remote database, and immediate data curation, interpretation and visualization, firstly to assist surveyors with their field work, and secondly to make surveying data accessible to the public. A hazard communication tool will be developed with location aware, multi-platform hazard maps, augmented by in-app links to a repository of contextual information, including health impacts, practical advice, observational metadata and WHO information. The development will be "mobile-first" such that designs fit a variety of mobiles and tablets. The use of CSS and modern browser technology will ensure that the same applications can be deployed automatically to multiple devices with the content being dynamically selected (or reduced) depending on the device capabilities.The water quality surveying equipment and methods, together with the associated digital technologies, will be field-tested in four surveys of increasing complexity of different water sources in unplanned settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. According to UNICEF, 46% of Tanzanians still lack access to improved drinking water sources. Waterborne diseases are endemic in Tanzania and a major disease burden, as evidenced by the major cholera outbreak in Dar es Salaam and other Tanzanian regions in the summer and autumn of 2015, which affected thousands of people. In this project, local stakeholders like the Dar es Salaam Water & Sewerage Authority, school teachers and community representatives will be engaged in the technology development and testing, helping in particular with the identification of context-appropriate, useful hazard communication methods. Multiple visual waterborne hazard display options will for example be scrutinized by these stakeholders to explore their social acceptability as well as easy interpretability and usefulness. Ardhi University researchers will assist with the translation of key contextual information into local languages.The methods and technologies developed in this project will not only facilitate water quality monitoring and communication in low income countries like Tanzania, where waterborne diseases are a significant health burden, but they will also facilitate the emergency response to natural or human-made disasters such as major earthquakes, the displacement of people by conflicts, or terrorist attacks affecting water supplies.

联合国的可持续发展目标6.1旨在为所有人实现普遍和公平的安全饮用水。尽管在过去的几十年中，全球获得改进的饮用水源一直在扩大，但在许多地方仍然缺乏它，尤其是在撒哈拉以南非洲。此外，并非所有改善的饮用水源都是安全的。使用点的水质监测是提供安全水的典型性。该项目将开发用于快速测量，映射和传达水上危险的创新技术。英国的纽卡斯尔大学将与坦桑尼亚的阿尔迪大学合作，以随后在达累斯萨拉姆进行现场测试，目的是在该项目结束时在坦桑尼亚合作伙伴乡村建立所有方法和技能。该项目将开发便携式基因测序设备作为一种多功能技术，以在数小时内全面评估微生物水质。它将将这种分子微生物学方法与其他可部署方法一起评估水质，包括廉价筛选方法，得出具有成本效益且可靠的测量策略。水质评估方法将与远程数据库中的数据存储数字技术集成，以便立即进行数据策划，以访问其现场调查，并将其与现场访问访问，并将其访问量。危害通信工具将通过位置意识，多平台危害图开发，并通过应用程序内链接到上下文信息的存储库，包括健康影响，实践建议，观察性元数据和谁信息。该开发将是“移动优先”，因此设计适合各种手机和平板电脑。 CSS和现代浏览器技术的使用将确保可以自动部署在多个设备上，并根据设备功能动态选择（或降低）。水质测量设备和方法以及相关的数字技术以及相关的数字技术将在四个越来越多的水上sallan sala sala sala sala sala sala sala sala sala sala sala sala sala sala sala sala sala nece sala sala sala sala的越来越多的调查中进行现场测试。根据联合国儿童基金会的数据，坦桑尼亚人中有46％的人仍然无法获得改善的饮用水源。水源性疾病在坦桑尼亚是地方性的，这是一个重大疾病负担，这是2015年夏季和秋季在达累斯萨拉姆和其他坦桑尼亚地区的主要霍乱爆发所证明的，影响了成千上万的人。在这个项目中，像达累斯萨拉姆水与污水处理局，学校教师和社区代表这样的当地利益相关者将参与技术开发和测试，尤其有助于确定上下文适当，有用的危害沟通方法。例如，这些利益相关者将仔细检查多个视觉水上危险的显示选项，以探索他们的社会可接受性以及简单的解释性和实用性。阿尔迪大学的研究人员将协助将关键上下文信息转化为本地语言。该项目中开发的方法和技术不仅会促进坦桑尼亚等低收入国家的水质监测和沟通，在那里，水源性疾病是巨大的健康负担，而且还将促进自然或人为灾难的袭击，例如造成大量的人类的恐怖群体，或者促进了遭受重大境地的袭击，或者造成冲突的袭击。

项目成果

MinION Nanopore Sequencing Accelerates Progress towards Ubiquitous Genetics in Water Research

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• DOI: 10.3390/w14162491
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Water
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Werner D

Faecal pollution source tracking in the holy Bagmati River by portable 16S rRNA gene sequencing

• DOI: 10.1038/s41545-021-00099-1
• 发表时间: 2021-02-18
• 期刊: NPJ CLEAN WATER
• 影响因子: 11.4
• 作者: Pantha, Kalyan;Acharya, Kishor;Werner, David
• 通讯作者: Werner, David

Effective removal of iron, nutrients, micropollutants, and faecal bacteria in constructed wetlands cotreating mine water and sewage treatment plant effluent

有效去除人工湿地中的铁、营养物、微污染物和粪便细菌，共同处理矿井水和污水处理厂废水

• DOI: 10.2166/wst.2024.001
• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: Water Science & Technology
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Plaimart J

Attenuation of bacterial hazard indicators in the subsurface of an informal settlement and their application in quantitative microbial risk assessment.

非正规住区地下细菌危害指标的衰减及其在定量微生物风险评估中的应用。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107429
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Environment international
• 影响因子: 11.8
• 作者: Halla FF

A Mobile Laboratory Enables Fecal Pollution Source Tracking in Catchments Using Onsite qPCR Assays

移动实验室利用现场 qPCR 检测实现流域粪便污染源追踪

• DOI: 10.3390/w14081224
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Water
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Zan R