The EMoCH project ("Environmental Monitoring of Community Health in Urban Non-Sewered Catchments") brings together Eawag's Department of Microbiology and Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development, in partnership with Makerere University, the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), and Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA).

Using Kampala, Uganda, as a case study, the project leverages the city’s mix of sewered and non-sewered sanitation systems to develop and test a new environmental surveillance approach. The goal is to establish scalable, population-representative monitoring methods that could form the basis for early-warning public health systems in complex urban settings.

Watch the video to learn more about the research and what early results reveal