22 Jun 2017

Analysing wastewater reveals population health

From Our Changing World, 9:05 pm on 22 June 2017

Rolf Halden is Director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. he tells Robyn Williams, from ABC’s The Science Show, about the chemicals and drugs that can be detected at wastewater treatment plants, and how that information can be used to anonymously measure a population’s health.

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Wastewater treatment plant. Photo: CC BY 2.0 KOMUnews