International experts highlight innovation and health protection in a forum "Water quality"

Abu Dhabi, October 2 / WAM / The work of the second session of the “Water Quality 2025” forum, organized by the M42 Environmental Sciences Company in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council “ADQCC”, and concludes its work today, is a prominent participation of international experts and specialists, as the event collected a group of scientific minds to discuss the latest innovations in water quality and combat infectious diseases.

Johannes Mengiso Ashte, the National Director of the American Public Health Laboratory Association “AphL” in Ethiopia, said in a statement to the Emirates News Agency, “WAM”, that during the forum he presented a presentation on the experience of Ethiopia in the “Survey through wastewater” project, a regional project supported by the association in cooperation with host institutions and the Ministry of Health and Public Labs.

He added that “monitoring through wastewater” is a fundamental tool for early detection of pathogens before spreading in society, explaining that this system allows to identify pathogens easily and transfer results directly to decision makers to adopt appropriate interventions.

Ishiti pointed out that Ethiopia is currently working to expand the scope of the monitoring project to include priority pathogens, and to identify the challenges associated with it, while enhancing the link between the results of monitoring and health policies, stressing that the long -term vision is based on combining this monitoring completely into the national epidemiological monitoring system.

In the field of water innovation and sustainability, Jason Moore, a first adviser to the Gulf region of the American company “Lyten”, which specializes in the technology of three -dimensional graphine and clean energy solutions, stressed the importance of putting accurate and reliable signs on the water, praising the efforts made by the UAE in providing reliable signs of bottled water, to enhance consumer confidence in water quality.

He said that his practical project depends on batteries made of three -dimensional graphic material, which is expected to be used in the future to filter water, in an innovative step that contributes to quality protection and ensuring its sustainability and security.

He stressed the need to adopt all innovative ideas in the water sector, pointing to Abu Dhabi’s endeavor to attract innovations from around the world to ensure that sustainable fresh water is obtained in the desert.

With regard to the techniques of sewage control in Japan and Asia, Rio Honda, a professor at the College of Earth Sciences and Civil Engineering at the Japanese University of Kanazawa, highlighted the importance of these practices as an advanced tool to follow up the spread of infectious diseases, indicating that Japan adopts them at the local level and seeks to expand its scope to include several Asian countries.

Honda said, in a statement to “WAM”, that the regional project in which it participates includes the monitoring of the “SARS-COV-2” virus and antibiotic resistance “AMR”, and is based on close cooperation between local municipalities, the industrial sector and research institutes, where technologies are developed in coordination with the private sector and their application in cooperation with local authorities to ensure the highest levels of effectiveness in monitoring.

He added that the project is characterized by the ability to analyze the “SARS-COV-2” virus and the influenza virus in the wastewater, while providing the results on a daily basis through the electronic information panel, and sending direct notifications to citizens on social networks, so that their smartphones arrive every Friday.

He pointed out that this information enables the city’s residents to make the informed daily decisions, such as choosing the safe places for the visit, determining the need to wear masks, or avoiding gatherings, in a way that enhances the level of public safety and the effectiveness of preventive measures.

Regarding the techniques of rapid detection of bacterial pathogens, Professor Harun Shah, a professor of Fakhri at the University of Middlesx in London and a specialist in microbial protein science, explained that these techniques represent a real revolution in the protection of public health, especially in light of the increasing challenges to resist microbes.

He pointed to the technique of “Maldi-To” based on the linguistic spectral analysis, explaining that it is used to detect proteins and microbes with high accuracy and speed, stressing that this technique is characterized by the ability to work on very small samples, and the ease of learning it within a few hours, and it has been applied in various parts of the world, including poor and developing countries.

He pointed to the development of a new technology known as “Raman Spectroscopy”, which is expected to reduce the time to detect pathogens to only 10 seconds, although the research related to it is still in its early stages.

He stressed that artificial intelligence plays a pivotal role in all operations, as machine learning has been used for 30 years to accelerate sampling treatment without the need for direct human intervention, indicating that technology is the basis, while artificial intelligence accelerates work and not the essence of innovation.

On global initiatives in combating infectious diseases, Dr. Farida Al -Hosani, Executive Vice President of the International Institute for the Elimination of Infectious Diseases “Galide”, said that the institute adopted many initiatives around the world, noting the support of health systems in a number of countries through epidemiological investigation projects, most notably the use of wastewater networks to detect polio.

She added that the adoption of genetic examination and pathological techniques represents a wide field for development, stressing the importance of harnessing data and artificial intelligence to foresee the future and deal in a proactive manner with epidemics before its appearance.

On the water treatment and chemical pollutant control project, Jesus Gomez Morris, a representative of the company “The Science of Whats authority” in the Middle East, said that the company has signed a cooperation agreement with the Abu Dhabi Quality and matching to develop advanced research capabilities, explaining that the main project of the company is related to “PFAS” known as “the eternal chemical”, which is, which It is used in many industries and does not decompose the environment, which may lead to its absorption by humans and causing them with health problems at certain levels, such as cancer and other health damages.

He stressed that the company is working in cooperation with the authorities in Abu Dhabi to follow up the project and address these risks in a manner that guarantees water safety and protecting community health.

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