Municipal wastewater can be used to track diseases in UH study

A new study led by Tao Yan, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa surveyed Honolulu’s municipal wastewater system and determined that bacterial pathogen information collected matched those collected through the state’s health laboratories. Yan’s research was published in Environmental Science & Technology and selected by Nature Sustainability as its research highlight of the month.