rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/wastewaterdata?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-wastewaterdata' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Teams Human https://actionnetwork.org/groups/teams-human https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/265/310/normal/wastewater.png Wastewater monitoring data is important scientific data for a number of applications and reasons. This needs to be funded at all levels. Please join me in writing representatives using my form gets routed to all federal and state representatives based on your location or use whatever method you want to write to the White House and your representatives. Use my letter below, edit it, or write your own. Thanks, Chloe Humbert Wastewater data is valuable infrastructure technology. Wastewater monitoring must continue and be expanded for our modern society's scientific public health management. Wastewater monitoring data is important scientific data for a number of applications, including public health monitoring for viruses like SARSCOV2. This needs to be funded and encouraged at all levels of government. Reference: Scientific American: A Valuable Early-warning System for Disease Outbreaks Could Be Shut Down. Uncertain funding means wastewater surveillance programs could close in the future. By Betsy Ladyzhets on March 30, 2023 During the past three years of the pandemic, testing sewage water for the virus that causes COVID has become a valuable tool: it has spotted surging infections and new variants weeks before they showed up in medical clinics, for instance. The technology has also warned of other health threats such as seasonal viruses and increased opioid use. But now its long-term ability to protect public health is in jeopardy. Funding uncertainty from the federal government and uneven commitments from state health departments have raised the specter that wastewater monitoring programs may shut down in the future. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/de97f5738d08df030cbba6c9ff0316b3415004b3