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Wastewater surveillance is a pretty crazy technology. My neighbor works on projects using it for wildlife tracking, and they can get startling amounts of inform
by ropeladder 4y ago
Wastewater surveillance is a pretty crazy technology. My neighbor works on projects using it for wildlife tracking, and they can get startling amounts of information about what is going on in a given watershed. What (e.g endangered) animals are present, what animals humans are eating, etc. And all the way down to the viral level, obviously.
- jdadj 4y agoI’m confused. How is wastewater from endangered animals ending up in the sewage system? Surely they’re not using toilets…
- londons_explore 4y agoThere is always a little that drains in... Often these tests are done on river water too. And PCR tests are super sensitive.
- ropeladder 4y agoSorry, my comment was a bit misleading: as the other commenter noted, they are doing testing in rivers, etc. When animals defecate/urinate onto the ground, some of it eventually gets carried and aggregated into flowing water.