Improving Public Health Through Smart Sanitation and Digital Water
The International Water Association (IWA) and the Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) have developed this white paper as a call to action for sanitation and water operators to embrace opportunities for their products and services to feed into a new digital public health ecosystem. The paper highlights the leadership of IWA from its digital water programme, and the TBC from its smart sanitation economy work, as well as reflections from a variety of innovative businesses around the world who are addressing water and sanitation in a new way. The aim is to provide insights on innovation opportunities around essential services and public health, accelerating the adoption of digital technologies, and reinforcing the value of remote monitoring. Many of these innovations, for example around environmental surveillance, have been brought to the forefront by the COVID-19 pandemic.