This document describes a project to build a knowledge value chain to support global water safety. The project aims to (1) develop a knowledge supply chain for safe water using information technology, (2) update a key global resource on sanitation and drinking water safety, and (3) support global exposure assessments and evaluation of sanitation technologies. The project will provide accessible global knowledge to protect human health by mapping pollution sources and guiding water industry technologies.

1. Building a Knowledge Value Chain to Support Global Water Safety
Part of the UNESCO Global Water Pathogen Project
August 11-12, 2014
Nicholas Kiulia and Joan B. Rose, Michigan State University
Contacts
Joan B. Rose
Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research
Dept of Fisheries and Wildlife
480 Wilson Road
Natural Resources Building, Room 13
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
rosejo@msu.edu
Phone: 517.432-4412
Project Description
Project goal and objectives
Research Approach
 To develop a knowledge supply chain for safe water using advanced
information technology.
 Update the key global resource for sanitation and safe drinking water
(Feachem et al., 1983); Water Pathogens 2.0
- providing information on global pathogen occurrence and
persistence in water.
- project will interface with UNESCO’s goal for production
and dissemination of a new edition of Sanitation and
Disease: Health Aspects of Excreta and Wastewater
Management (Feachem et al. 1983).
- The knowledge system developed for safe water will support global exposure
assessments and enable evaluation of sanitation technologies for achieving
health-based targets.
The Blue economy
Selected case studies in Africa, Asia and the US
Final outcome and deliverables
 The GWPP will provide accessible global knowledge to support action and
change for protecting human health.
 Ability to map pollution sources, add to WHO Sanitation Guidelines, via the
update of the critical information (Feachem, et al).
 The knowledge and data generated will guide the water industry in
developing the best technologies in terms of membranes and appropriate
disinfection methods to achieve pathogen removal and global safety
criteria.
Water
Safety &
Security
Global network of scientists
 Desalination - $16.6 Billion
 Wastewater Resource Recovery - $37 Billion
 Wastewater Treatment - $70.8 Billion
 Overall Market (products/services) - $770B
 Growth – As high as 10% Annually!!
 * Pittsburgh’s H2Opportunity Report
Value Created
 Develop knowledge system for safe water - will support global exposure
assessments - enable evaluation of sanitation technologies for achieving health-
based targets
 and provide high applied quality data, translating the scientific knowledge into
socio-technical recommendations for safe water supply and sanitation
 Create knowledge for WHO in policy and sanitation guidelines development
Scott Meschke
University of Washington
Joan Rose
Michigan State University
Walter Jakubowski
WaltJay Consulting Jan Vinje
CDC
Kellogg Schwabb
Johns Hopkins University
Marize Pereira Miagostovich
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz
Brazil
Walter Betancourt
Venezuelan Institute
for Scientific Research
Venezuela
Maureen Taylor
University of Pretoria
South Africa
Hung Nguyen Viet
International Livestock
Research Institute
Vietnam
Anicet Blanch
University of Barcelona
Spain
Andreas Farnleitner
Vienna Univ. of Technology
AustriaRosina Girones
University of Barcelona
Spain
Sílvia Bofill-Mas
University of Barcelona
Spain
Blanca Jiménez Cisneros
UNESCO
Apostolos Vantarakis
University of Patras
Greece
Ron Fayer
USDA ARS
Country Year Site of
Collection
Total samples
collected (n)
RV EV NoV HEV AdV Reference
Percentage of Samples Positive
Kenya 2007-2008 River (MB) 12 25 25 25 Kiulia et al, 2010
River (KD) 10 100 100 90
River (MR) 7 0 0 0
Sewage (IPR) 5 20 100 40
Sewage(Karen) 8 100 50 50
Kenya 2012-2013 River (MB) 12 83 50 33 Kiulia thesis 2013
River (KD) 12 100 83 100
River (NR) 12 83 58 58
South Africa 2008-2010 River (K) 106 - - 66 Mans et al, 2013
River (R) 21 - - 95
River (S) 24 - - 21
Singapore 2007 Sewage 18 94 100 AW et al, 2010
Effluent 18 89 100
India 2009-10 Sewage
(Vellore)
144 77 56 Vivek et al, 2013
Japan 2005-06 Wastewater
influent
12 100 Kitajima et al, 2012
Wastewater
effluent
50
USA 85 20 36 Asli et al, 2011
RV Rotavirus, EV enterovirus, NoV norovirus, HEV Hepatitis E virus, AdV adenovirus
- High rate of virus polluted rivers in Kenya and South Africa
- High levels of enteric viral pathogens in water sources in both developed and
developing countries. Provides information to direct areas for wastewater and
reuse technologies.