Not only are our outdated water treatment facilities using bacteria to clean out the bacteria but very hardy pharmaceuticals like Tetracycline make it into and through the process out into the watershed.

We went these and and other antimicrobials to be resilient as this increases their bioavailability but between thier use in humans and animals and the fact that out outdated infrastructure seems to be a an amplifier of anti-microbial resistance. We need to not only identify the coliforms in the watershed as well as chemicals and parasites, but we need to be on gaurd for new resistance or old organisms that could be of interest or harmful as we lose frozen water mass and expose the population to new and ancient organisms for which we have assuredly lost resistance.

We aim to identify, count, and image new organisms and collect samples for later collection of novel unknown types to alert swimmers, users or water, fishermen, and the public of times when the water could be dangerous to enter.

Using ML/AL Libraries and Edge of the Edge Technology we will develop sensor networks to identify and count bacterial growth and chemical substances in waterways, coastlines, and vulnerable reefs to be an early warning system for public health and populations as these Events happen regularly but without warning. We would like to remove the delay casued by the need to collect and process samples and do that on-site and on-board.

See:

The Guardian News, November 17, 2022.

The “Beach Bum Survey” UK Epidemiology Service.

The UK Epidemiology Service finding of Pharmaceuticals in EVERY single watershed in the UK. 2022.