Draft Programme Watermicro 2025

Side events

Side event 1	Viral Clues: Innovative Indicators for Detection Fecal Pollution in Water
Side event 2	Water Pathogen Modelling: building blocks for stakeholder-driven and climate-aware analysis
Side event 3	Let’s team up to unlock unknown outbreak with the wastewater code
Side event 4	Infectivity Determination of Viruses: Cell Culture vs. Molecular Methods (PCR)
Side event 5	Water Quality Management: research into action!
Side event 6	Identifying and addressing challenges in wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) population representation and data interpretation
Side event 7	Innovation in sampling for water surveillance of pathogens and AMR
Side event 8	Who bears the burden? Using DALYs to assess risk tradeoffs in water reuse management
Side event 9	How to create useable irrigation water safety plans for growers
Side event 10	Implementation of RT-PCR methods for statutory monitoring under the EU Drinking Water Directive
Side event 11	H2Omics: a refreshing dive into the water microbiome

WHO sessions

The WHO sessions are workshops organized by WHO together with researchers in the field. They focus on current topics that are relevant today. The specific topics are still to be confirmed. By contributing to these sessions, you contribute to agenda setting and WHO policy development.