TY - JOUR
T1 - Wastewater research and surveillance
T2 - an ethical exploration
AU - Doorn, N.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The current COVID-19 pandemic has given wastewater research a huge impetus. While wastewater research has some promising applications, there are as yet no well-developed ethical guidelines on how and under what conditions to use wastewater research. The current perspective paper aims to explore the different ethical questions pertaining to wastewater research and surveillance and to provide some tentative guidelines on the desirability of different types of applications. This paper shows that wastewater research offers interesting possibilities, but that legal regulation and ethical guidelines are still lacking, while there are ethical risks involved. The perspective indicates that it is important to look beyond the regulation of data collection and to shift the focus to the question how the analysis and use of wastewater data can be supervised.
AB - The current COVID-19 pandemic has given wastewater research a huge impetus. While wastewater research has some promising applications, there are as yet no well-developed ethical guidelines on how and under what conditions to use wastewater research. The current perspective paper aims to explore the different ethical questions pertaining to wastewater research and surveillance and to provide some tentative guidelines on the desirability of different types of applications. This paper shows that wastewater research offers interesting possibilities, but that legal regulation and ethical guidelines are still lacking, while there are ethical risks involved. The perspective indicates that it is important to look beyond the regulation of data collection and to shift the focus to the question how the analysis and use of wastewater data can be supervised.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85140266050&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1039/d2ew00127f
DO - 10.1039/d2ew00127f
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140266050
VL - 8
SP - 2431
EP - 2438
JO - Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology
JF - Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology
SN - 2053-1419
IS - 11
ER -