What’s amazing about sewage is that it’s naturally aggregated and anonymized. Once flushed, your waste is mixing with that of thousands and thousands of people, so there’s actually no way to tie any information from here back to a specific person. – Newsha Ghaeli
Data detective Newsha Ghaeli
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"Everybody pees and poops and we know that urine and stool contain a rich source of information on our health," says data detective Newsha Ghaeli. Exploring…
"Everybody pees and poops and we know that urine and stool contain a rich source of information on our health," says data detective Newsha Ghaeli. Exploring the growing field of wastewater epidemiology, she shows how studying sewage can (anonymously) reveal a lot about the collective well-being of our cities leading to real-time quality-of-life improvements like tracking pandemics, updating social policies and much more.